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14. Brock Lesnar Takes Flight

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Brock Lesnar takes to the air with a (misjudged) shooting star press, the original planned finish of his WrestleMania XIX title match against Kurt Angle.

Brock Lesnar will forever be tied to WrestleMania (for a reason we'll get to a little later in this list), but over a decade prior he also lit up the grandaddy of them all with one of the highest-profile botches ever seen. Amazingly, despite the horrific nature of the incident, he was able to not only complete the match, but do so in emphatic fashion.

Lesnar attempted a shooting star press, a move entirely at odds with a man of his size and build - and he almost nailed it. Brock would have landed the terrifying leap had Kurt Angle been slightly closer, but the Next Big Thing instead found himself driven headfirst into the canvas. Remarkably, he then scooped up the Olympian and drilled him with an F5 - ending the main event and winning the WWE Championship in the process.

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