10 Most Shocking WWE WrestleMania Role Reversals
7. Bret Hart - WrestleMania X & XI
Bret Hart's WrestleMania X WWE Championship coronation was a public atonement from Vince McMahon after his shoddy treatment of 'The Hitman' to pander to Hulk Hogan a year earlier. His contrition didn't last.
'The Excellence Of Execution' surrendered his cherished prize to Bob Backlund at that year's Survivor Series to payoff a surprisingly strong run for the anti-New Generation psychopath that summer. The match divided audiences but at the very least provided high drama and a title change. Their WrestleMania XI clunker - a match Bret considers his worst ever committed to WWE pay-per-view - offered neither of the above.
The 'I Quit' stipulation seemed suited to two masters of the craft, but few counted on Roddy Piper's domineering way with the microphone destroying what little narrative the pair were aiming for with their drab succession of holds and counters. By comparison, show headliners Bam Bam Bigelow and ex-NFL star Lawrence Taylor looked like... well, what Bret Hart and Bob Backlund were supposed to look like.