Counting down to WrestleMania 35, Solomonster ranks the Top 10 Most Shocking Match Outcomes in WrestleMania History. #9 is the night we got a MCMAHON IN EVERY CORNER with Triple H becoming the first heel to retain his title to close out a Mania show. Also discussing the events that led to the Fatal Four-Way and how Chris Jericho was originally scheduled to take the spot that ultimately went to Mick Foley.
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I tried watching raw on Monday and the ending is still the McMahon's screwing one of the women's wrestlers.
Triple h vs booker T still makes me mad till this day I thought he low key racist for a Long time
I get that it was new to see the heel win the main event at WrestleMania, but if you had to do it, you could've at least waited for an instance where it would've made sense. Like, why not the year before? Why not have The Rock retain the WWF Championship against Stone Cold Steve Austin? Sure, that itself would've been a shocking outcome, but at least The Rock was still very over with the people as far as entertainment goes, even as a heel. He was naturally starting to become more of a face by that time. They could've just had Austin win it from The Rock at Backlash the following month, since he defeated him there anyway. Not that I disagree with Austin winning in 1999, I just think that doing it the other way wouldn't have done any real harm at least. 2000 of all years was that in which The Rock should've won the WWF Championship in the main event of WrestleMania. And yes, I get that if the scenario I just described with The Rock defeating Austin actually played out, at least The Rock would've had one World title main event victory on his record, thus ironically meaning that losing to Triple H wouldn't have made him miss out as much. But the principle for 2000 was still the same either way, yet it was ignored. They could've just left Triple H out of a moment like this until later.
And so, The Rock's wrestling record holds not one World title win at WrestleMania. He lost the belt to Austin again in 2001 (although I admit it was the most correct instance of the four for The Rock to lose without a doubt). Then he lost the belt to John Cena in 2013 in an already pointless WrestleMania rematch that seemed more to me like something set up just to pander to John Cena and his whiny fans, like the man has to win every fucking feud he's in even though his loss to The Rock in 2012 didn't exactly lower his status as a headliner, or take away from the fact Cena already won FIVE World title matches at WrestleMania prior and didn't need another one! I suppose it wouldn't have mattered that much either if The Rock walked out of WrestleMania as the champion in either 1999 or 2000, but again, the principle was still the same either way.
From what I understand, the WWF didn't want The Rock winning the belt at WrestleMania 2000 because they weren't able to bring Austin back to make his interference that we ended up seeing at Backlash instead – they wanted The Rock to win following that to make his win a bigger deal. Well… okay. But you still could've found another way of making The Rock winning at WrestleMania a big deal without Austin and just played out the rematch at Backlash with Austin's interference as it happened in real life, just with The Rock retaining the WWF Championship. Now, I get that The Rock was fortunately someone who showed through his popularity that he never needed a World title win at WrestleMania to help him get there. I'm just saying that for all those big names that have accomplished this, you'd think The Rock would be among them.
"Yes Detective Odafin Tutuola once appeared at Wrestlemania…" I don't get it.
On a side note,this WrestleMania I didn't like & if you paid attention to Vince's body language,you knew he was going to turn on Rock
All I remember is there was a lot of tag team matches.
I still have never liked ABA Undertaker.