10 WWE Feuds Where The Wrong Person Won

2009 saw Randy Orton on the rise as an immensely evil heel, the sort of character fans had been crying out for him to portray since his ill-advised face turn after splitting from Evolution. A natural villain, he tore into the McMahon family, punting Vince in the head, RKOing Stephanie, and staking a claim to Triple H's WWE Championship.

The stage was set for the main event of WrestleMania XXV, a match which would surely kickstart Orton's rise to become the greatest heel of the era. The match was unfortunately an underwhelming one, and drew a mixed reaction from fans burned out by the five-star Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels classic that had taken place a short time before.

However, the result of the bout was far more offensive than its average nature.

Triple H beat the tar out of Orton in the closing stages of the match, smashing him with a sledgehammer and several Pedigrees en route to the most decisive of victories. Randy would win (and lose) the title several times over the following few months, but such a huge loss on the grandest stage of all denied him a career-igniting moment.