10 Times WWE Fans Were Elated At WrestleMania

6. Ronda Rousey Lights Up Triple H

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WWE's presentation of Ronda Rousey's debut was perfect.

Engineered through Kurt Angle's bumbling ineptitude - an all too rare use of the man's great comedic timing in an otherwise generic GM role - the storyline masterfully obscured both the full range of Ronda's talents and the key, electric story beat. The first act was telegraphed through Stephanie McMahon's evasiveness on TV. At some point in the inter-gender mixed tag, Ronda was going to pulverise Stephanie in vengeful sh*t-kicker mode, and she did, but not after a superb Stephanie performance in which she seamlessly fused arrogance and terror. That sequence, expertly-built, was fantastic and super-heated. Fans had begged for years for Stephanie to show this much ass, and Ronda looked incredible, legitimate, prodigious.

In a smoke-and-mirrors masterpiece, Ronda then encountered Triple H, as fans slowly sensed, with ghoulish delight, a transgression on WWE's strict code of anti-inter-gender violence. Ronda blew away Triple H with a relentless blitzkrieg of strikes, and he sold it as if being over-killed by a machine gun.

This was a phenomenal, only-in-WWE match so awesome and so heated that the rest of the card suffered in its wake.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!