20 Times WWE Had The Wrong Star Win At WrestleMania

3. Triple H vs. The Rock vs. Mick Foley vs. Big Show – WrestleMania 2000

In the absence of Stone Cold Steve Austin, WWE needed a popular babyface to step up and fill the void, and that was done by The Rock. Rock had solidified himself as the top guy in the company and it seemed like a dead certainty that the final image of WrestleMania 2000 would be The Rock holding up his newly won WWE Championship.

But of course, Triple H sure would have something to say about it. Triple H successfully defended his championship in a match that was dominated by the McMahon family rather than the talented performers in the ring.

WWE thought that allowing The Rock to Rock Bottom Stephanie McMahon would make up for this, but they thought wrong. The Rock should have been victorious here.

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2. Triple H vs. Booker T – WrestleMania XIX

The hype to their WrestleMania XIX World Heavyweight Champion match involved Triple H bringing up Booker T’s criminal past and saying that ”guys like you” aren’t championship material.

He said that Booker was there to carry his bags and dance around to ”entertain people like you”. The build was controversial, but it was all going to be excused with Booker T beating Triple H and proved ”The Game” to be wrong.

But of course, Triple H didn’t let that happen. Triple H successfully defended his championship against Booker, he was the bully and his victim never got any revenge. Booker T should certainly have walked away as the victor and the new champion after the show, proving how he was more than Triple H saw him to be. It’s a shame WWE thought otherwise.

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1. Triple H vs. Sting – WrestleMania 31

Triple H has been mentioned in five of the last seven entries on this list, but the choice to have him beat the debuting Sting at WrestleMania 31 was the worst decision of them all. I mean who on earth thought this was the right call?

The moment we never thought we’d see happen, happened. Sting stepped foot in a WWE ring to compete for the first time ever at WrestleMania 31. The WCW icon was in his late-50s, he was never going to have a ten year run on the main roster as an active performer, but he deserved a WrestleMania moment.

When he was booked to face Triple H, we thought we’d see Sting best ‘The Game’ and have his hand raised in an iconic moment which we thought we’d never see. The match was fun, with DX and the nWo running down for a nice call back to the Attitude Era. The DX interference was bound to be neutralized by the nWo, allowing Sting to put Triple H away, right?

In a surprise that we all should have ironically seen coming, Triple H walked away as the winner. No one is sitting here saying that Triple H is any better off after beating Sting, but Sting retired without a WrestleMania win to his name, and that’s an injustice.

This was an example of WWE and Vince McMahon proving that WWE was eternally better than WCW. Whilst the Monday Night Wars might have ended in 1999, McMahon was still doing all he could to prove WWE was the superior promotion in 2015.

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