10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About WrestleMania 27

3. Michael Cole Versus Jerry Lawler...

If you've blocked it out of your memory, you can't be blamed, but five years ago, the most visible heel on WWE TV was Michael Cole. He started out bashing Daniel Bryan and hyping up The Miz, but before long, he was ruining each broadcast from start to finish with his obnoxious antics. In retrospect, it's hard to believe anybody was still watching Raw at the time. Cole frequently butted heads with broadcast partner Jerry Lawler, whom he cost a chance to win The Miz's WWE Championship. The issue between the announcers deepened until Lawler challenged Cole to a match at WrestleMania. Cole accepted and recruited Jack Swagger to serve as his coach. The match was a terribly-executed affair. Overbooked in all the wrong ways, the nearly 14-minute blunder saw Lawler beat up on Cole long past the point where it stopped being entertaining. Dean Malenko, the agent who put the bout together, was criticized for his creative decisions afterwards, and rightly so. It was rotten. Finally, after a whole lot of nonsense, Lawler made Cole submit to the Ankle Lock.