10 Times Predictable WrestleMania Outcomes Never Actually Happened

Maybe Roman Reigns winning the WWE Championship at WrestleMania isn't as nailed-on as we think...

by Andrew Pollard
So, as much as many didn€™t want to see it, it€™s now official: WrestleMania XXXII will be headlined by Roman Reigns challenging for Triple H€™s WWE World Heavyweight Championship. We can all agree, it€™s a given that The Big Dog will walk out of Dallas€™ AT&T Stadium with the biggest prize in the business in his possession. We might not like it, but that€™s the way it€™s going to go. Predictable, right? Sadly so, but maybe, just maybe, we€™ll all be left with egg on our faces and The Game will be standing tall when this year€™s Showcase of the Immortals comes to a close. Over the years, WrestleMania has been full of 'dead certs', of matches that were no-brainers when it came to calling the outcome of them, of battles that all of us smart fans were adamant that we knew exactly what was going to play out and who was going to win. But at times, regardless of how nailed-on a certain result looked, there have been certain €˜Mania moments where all didn€™t play out like it was supposed to, like how we all predicted it would. So, is Roman walking out of Dallas with the gold? Likely so, but here are 10 times that a totally, totally predictable WrestleMania match shocked us all by giving us a result that seemed impossible.
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Once described as the Swiss Army Knife of WhatCulture, Andrew can usually be found writing, editing, or presenting on a wide range of topics. As a lifelong wrestling fan, horror obsessive, and comic book nerd, he's been covering those topics professionally as far back as 2010. In addition to his current WhatCulture role of Senior Content Producer, Andrew previously spent nearly a decade as Online Editor and Lead Writer for the world's longest-running genre publication, Starburst Magazine, and his work has also been featured on BBC, TechRadar, Tom's Guide, WhatToWatch, Sportkskeeda, and various other outlets, in addition to being a Rotten Tomatoes-approved film critic. Between his main dayjob, his role as the lead panel host of Wales Comic Con, and his gig as a pre-match host for Wrexham AFC games, Andrew has also carried out a hugely varied amount of interviews, from the likes of Robert Englund, Kane Hodder, Adrienne Barbeau, Rob Zombie, Katharine Isabelle, Leigh Whannell, Bruce Campbell, and Tony Todd, to Kevin Smith, Ron Perlman, Elijah Wood, Giancarlo Esposito, Simon Pegg, Charlie Cox, the Russo Brothers, and Brian Blessed, to Kevin Conroy, Paul Dini, Tara Strong, Will Friedle, Burt Ward, Andrea Romano, Frank Miller, and Rob Liefeld, to Bret Hart, Sting, Mick Foley, Ricky Starks, Jamie Hayer, Britt Baker, Eric Bischoff, and William Regal, to Mickey Thomas, Joey Jones, Phil Parkinson, Brian Flynn, Denis Smith, Gary Bennett, Karl Connolly, and Bryan Robson - and that's just the tip of an ever-expanding iceberg.