10 Most Shocking WrestleMania Turns
5. Trish Stratus (WrestleMania X-Seven)
Trish Stratus triumphant breakaway from Vince McMahon was the first significant twist in the most remarkable and rewarding exhibition of McMahon family drama in company history.
Ending his illicit affair with Stratus to favour his daughter Stephanie, Vince had been inhumanly vile to his former squeeze in the aftermath. Segments in which Trish was covered in slop from a mop bucket, tearfully forced to disrobe, and bark like a dog on her knees in front of McMahon were some of the most uncomfortable in WWE history, but served to present the Chairman as a villain beyond the pale, with his ultimate comeuppance coming on the biggest night of the year.
Before the no-longer-sedated Linda would rise from her comatose state to hoof Vince in the grapefruits, Trish would enact revenge of her own by walloping Vince in the face with an almighty slap, then battle with Stephanie all the way to the back.
It was a spectacular babyface turn for the downtrodden vixen, and would set Stratus up for a summer of adjusting to the rigours of in-ring action that would lead to female division dominance for the next several years.