10 WWE Ruthless Aggression WrestleMania Matches That Should Have Happened
8. Triple H Vs Batista Vs Randy Orton Vs. Ric Flair (WrestleMania 21)
Great wrestling factions are often defined, and best remembered, for the implosion angle. For the fall of a stable to be truly long-lasting in the memory of fans, the timing of the split needs to be shocking, yet also logical.
There is perhaps no better textbook WWE example of this than the demise of Evolution.
After a jealous Triple H viciously expelled young Randy Orton from the group, when Orton won the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam 2004, the two had an insignificant feud which was supposed to carry to WrestleMania. However, there was more money elsewhere. If the Triple H vs Batista storyline was alpha, then HHH vs. Orton was certainly the beta version of the bitter leader vs. defiant student storyline we got out of Evolution.
HHH vs Batista was so carefully layered and built with such patience that the payoff of Batista closing ‘Mania with the big gold belt would become truly cathartic.
Yet still, an Evolution Fatal 4-Way was a match we never got to experience, and this is the only element which prevented the Evolution script from properly going full circle.
Having Batista not only win the Royal Rumble and go after Triple H’s title, but also roll through his former Evolution brethren in the process, would have made even big of a destroyer out of The Animal.