7 WWE Royal Rumble Eliminations That Were NEVER SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN!

5. The Rock (2000)

You may view this one as cheating, because The Rock was announced as the winner of the 2000 Royal Rumble match and rolled on into Raw the next night as the guy who'd get a WWF Title crack at WrestleMania. Not so fast, said Big Show. He had definitive proof that Rocky's feet had touched before his, and he wanted the whole world to see it.

Unlike 99/100 wrestling heels, he was right.

Watch the way The Rock's momentum stops suddenly in the above .GIF, then cast a glance at further proof (encased in a handy red circle) below that. Note that Show was upside down in mid-air and was thus nowhere near the arena floor too. Rocky was technically eliminated from the Rumble first, and that meant Show was the actual winner.

Rolling with the botch, the WWF whipped up a storyline that'd extend into the next month's No Way Out pay-per-view. It was so well done that it almost seemed to have been the plan all along.