Ranking Every WWE Title Change On Raw
14. Rey Mysterio Def. The Miz (25 July 2011)
For reasons already outlined, Rey Mysterio's WWE Championship win on the 25 July 2011 episode of Raw has to go down as a crushing disappointment to those of us who were willing for the high-flyer to return to wrestling's promised land.
In case you haven't made the connection yet: this title change came on exactly the same night as the one where John Cena beat Rey for the title. In other words, he won it against Miz, and then lost it again an hour later.
Nothing good came of this at all for WWE's Ultimate Underdog (nor Cena himself for that matter). He didn't even get the opportunity to take the belt home to his family and take some nice snaps of them sharing in his success.
The moment itself, granted, was a pretty cool one - few expected Rey to emerge from Vince McMahon's impromptu gold rush with the title around his waist - but it's now impossible to separate it from what we know was coming later on the night.