10 WrestleMania Results That Made Absolutely No Sense
3. Michael Cole Defeats Jerry Lawler - WrestleMania XXVI
The feud between Michael Cole and Jerry Lawler in 2011 will go down as one of the worst feuds in professional history and for good reason. Beefs between announcers is a staple of pro wrestling, but they have generally always been kept to the booth, as they should. Unfortunately, Cole and Lawler had to settle their squabble in a match at WrestleMania. Cole had Jack Swagger in his corner, and 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin was assigned as the referee for the match. Ridiculously the match almost clocked in at a quarter of an hour, before Cole finally tapped out to the Ankle Lock. Lawler and Austin celebrated, and everyone was happy. This lasted until the Anonymous General Manager chimed in, claiming that Austin was a biased referee and the decision was to be reversed. An all time great professional wrestler was denied a WrestleMania win, and a commentator universally hated (actually hated, not wrestling heat) was handed one of the cheapest wins in the history of the event. The feud also continued, which nobody wanted.
Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.
