10 Wrestlers Who Got A WrestleMania Singles Match Before Dolph Ziggler

6. Shane McMahon

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Blame every single fan that rushed to purchase a WrestleMania 32 ticket following Shane McMahon's surprising 2016 return for the persistent presence of the 'The Money' on 'The Grandest Stage' ever since.

It didn't used to be this way. He wasn't always the WrestleMania mirror man going blow-for-blow with The Undertaker, hold-for-hold with AJ Styles or measure-for-measure with George Mizanin. Shane was once what he actually was - a bratty little rich boy risking his body to match his mouth or make his point.

This was the d*ckhead behind a WrestleMania XV cracker with X-Pac or the simply unbelievable Father Vs Son WrestleMania X-Seven epic. How he morphed into such a polymath remains a mystery frustratingly unexplored by the creative team beyond those Instagram posts where he wipes his face with his top to intentionally reveal that he'd gained some abs.

Dolph Ziggler always had better ones anyway - and his lunatic bumps would have been even sillier than Shane's.

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