10 Wrestlers WWE Protected In The WORST Way Possible

This is unbelievable but true: It took until Drew McIntyre at WrestleMania 38 for someone to kick out of Baron Corbin’s End Of Days finisher. Before that happened, the move was a guaranteed nail in the coffin for countless wrestlers, and it was weirdly one of the most overly-protected finishes in the biz.

That's bizarre, because it’s not like Corbin was pushed to the top relentlessly. He was pushed, but not necessarily as someone who had the most dangerous move in all of WWE. If anything, Baron was largely there to make others look good, or try to. He was the kind of despicable, easy to loathe heel who'd always get his comeuppance in the end.

Unless he was retiring legends like Kurt Angle, of course. Few will ever get over that call.

Come 'Mania 38, the announcers attempted to make a huge deal out of McIntyre's kick out, but it fell pretty much flat. Why? Well, despite WWE's best efforts to make End Of Days look like a surefire death knell for anyone's hopes and dreams, it wasn't really viewed that way by the core audience. To them, it was a flashy finisher with a meaty, impressive thumped landing but nothing more.

In short, what was meant to be a 'WrestleMania moment' for Drew and Baron boiled down a midcard nothing encounter on the first night that reeked of a poor way to use the big Scot. No-one was tricked by Corbin's shocked face when McIntyre powered out, much to the chagrin of Vince McMahon's writers.