10 WWE WrestleMania Losers That Won Long-Term

So much is made about the winners of WrestleMania main events, and it's more than understandable. If you're the last person standing tall at the end of WWE's signature event, it usually means you're the most valuable performer in their eyes (The Miz at WrestleMania 27, notwithstanding). Whoever's raising the WWE Championship beneath the pyrotechnics and confetti would certainly be regarded as the night's biggest winner. Throughout the annals of WrestleMania history, a number of top-shelf performers were bestowed the golden rungs that they would climb to greater career heights....and they did so after losing at WrestleMania. Sometimes it's obvious that the loser of a specific WrestleMania match is destined for greater days, Other times, the loser of the match settles back into the midcard for the time being, and the WrestleMania match serves as a historic callback for their push later on. What's wrestling without a touch of revisionist history? In any event, the patrons of this list all benefited in some way, shape, or form after dropping a notable WrestleMania match, whether it was instant, or the beneficiary of the general happenstance of WWE. All entries are listed in chronological order from the time of their particular WrestleMania loss.