10 Wrestlers Who Won Despite Taking The Finish
8. Brock Lesnar (WWE Greatest Royal Rumble)
Considering how they've persisted with the inane and counter-intuitive escape rule for so many years, it's a wonder versions of this finish don't account for every entry on this list.
By 2018, just about everybody other than Vince McMahon had given up on the Roman Reigns: Top Babyface project, not least because of the company's hare-brained treatment of 'The Big Dog'.
Reigns had just lost to Lesnar in a ludicrous and horrifically-received WrestleMania 34 main event ahead of a Saudi Arabia rematch, but the very existence of this contest seemed to be the justification. WWE were making headlines for this brand new deal with the Sports Authority, and it was thought that a Universal Title switch on the very first event was part of the agreement.
WWE, too fittingly, instead didn't bother with much of a finish at all. Not a conclusive one anyway. Challenger speared Champion out of a steel cage (revealing some plastic ties barely holding it together in the first place), but the latter landing first secured him the win. All of this was made worse when even minor scrutiny revealed that this wasn't even technically the case.
Mutants defended it, but didn't even stop to consider what might have served as the inspiration...