10 Wrestlers Who Got A WrestleMania Singles Match Before Dolph Ziggler
8. Sting
Sting's late-2014 arrival and WrestleMania 31 match six months later couldn't have been further apart in tone after a logically built and largely enjoyable feud with Triple H turned into another Monday Night Wars retread, but 'The Icon' making it into a WrestleMania singles clash before Dolph Ziggler during 'The Show Off's seventh year on the main roster spoke volumes for their star-making skills.
For those that hadn't watched TNA, Sting had been absent from the industry since WCW went under in 2001, but the gap between matches for 'The Stinger' had made audiences grow far fonder for his ilk than those forced into the weekly WWE churn.
Ziggler had been World Champion twice, Intercontinental and United States Champion more times than any individual reign was worth, but it felt by 2015 as if he'd simultaneously feuded with everybody and nobody. Sting's debut, inadvertently, was the moment that crystallised that.
When he arrived at Survivor Series 2014 to save WWE from the grip of The Authority, his interjection scored the win for Dolph Ziggler over Triple H's pet project Seth Rollins. By WrestleMania, Hunter and Sting had their blowoff, while Rollins ended the night swinging the WWE Championship high above his head.
Ziggler was an odd man out yet again.