10 Times WWE Pleasantly Surprised Their Audience
5. Brock Lesnar Vs Roman Reigns (Vs Seth Rollins)
Brock Lesnar's WrestleMania 31 WWE Championship match against Roman Reigns was already over-delivering before Seth Rollins raced down the enormous ramp with his Money In The Bank briefcase in hand.
'The Big Dog's bloody grin served as a mark of his indestructibility in the face of somebody that has assumed total domination as normal. Roman wasn't getting cheered, but many of the fans that ordinarily hurled disdain at him were suddenly frozen in frazzled awe at his remarkable fighting spirit before they were bailed out by the strains of Rollins' entrance music echoing out from the stadium speakers.
Delivering the fan-friendly solution at the exact right moment, WWE provided a winner the entire venue could leave satisfied over, a surprising WrestleMania ending that left the community in shock and a genuine historic first - no other holder of the briefcase had ever chosen the 'Show Of Shows' finale to spring their surprise challenge.
Rollins - by this point the heel 'Architect' and destroyer of The Shield but not yet quite the abused step-child of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon - was popular enough on his own terms to be the one to take the title even if it set both Reigns and Lesnar on a revenge mission in the aftermath.