30 Best Performers In WrestleMania History

20. CM Punk (3-4)

CM Punk Undertaker
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Although he never achieved his dream of main-eventing a WrestleMania, CM Punk managed to scratch out a pretty impressive résumé at Mania. Sure, he lost to Randy Orton clean and was the Undertaker’s final victory at Mania, but he also won some big matches.

Punk is the only man to win two Money in the Bank ladder matches, both at WrestleMania in consecutive years. He also retained his WWE Championship at WrestleMania XXVIII against Chris Jericho in the midst of his 434-day title reign. And that Taker bout turned out to be the Deadman’s last win in his 21-match Mania winning streak.

Those are some high-profile matches for Punk, so even though he didn’t go on last, he certainly made an impression.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.