WWE: 7 Most Hyped Wrestlemania Main Events Of All Time

6. Triple H vs Batista - World Heavyweight Championship - Wrestlemania 21

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nbo_hbIj1Y Batista represented the re-emergence of a theme in wrestling that was more common in the days of Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin. Wrestler becomes popular. Wrestler enters the Royal Rumble and wins. Wrestler challenges for his first world title at Wrestlemania. Those were the steps followed to a tee by Batista in early 2005, when he won the 30-man over-the-top-rope match and cashed in his ticket to face Triple H at Wrestlemania 21. Yet there was even more backstory to Batista's climb to the top of WWE superstardom, and it came after a long, slow-burning and excellently crafted storyline involving himself and fellow members of Evolution. For almost two years prior to the Wrestlemania 21 event, Batista had basically been a muscular henchman for the Cerebral Assassin, doing the Game's dirty work and ensuring he left pay per views and Raw with the World Heavyweight Championship. Ultimately, the Animal grew sick of doing all the work without getting any reward, and decided to cash in his Royal Rumble victory for a date with Triple H instead of Smackdown's JBL. Wrestlemania 21, held at Staples Center in Los Angeles, was subtitled "Wrestlemania Goes Hollywood." In the weeks leading up to the event, various WWE superstars partook in sketches that parodied some of the most famous films of all time. None was more popular than a parody of Robert DeNiro's famous "Are you talkin' to me" scene in Taxi Driver, with Batista grabbing centre stage in the role. Triple H was also heavily involved in promoting the match. He appeared on" The Howard Stern Show", Canada's "Off The Record, and did the late-night talk show circuit in the weeks leading up to the main event bout. The match itself is not remembered nearly as much as the end result. Batista stood tall at the end of Wrestlemania 21, and his victory,along with John Cena's earlier in the evening, helped usher in a new era of WWE Main eventers.