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Most useless shocking clean wins you've ever seen?

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Off the top of my head there's Vladimir Kozlov pinning undertaker and fandango/Jericho, although he was pretty over then, or maybe more accurately his theme/dance was...but long term definitely a complete waste.

What others are particularly egrigious to you?
 
Barron fucking Corbin over Kurt Angle in his farewell match.
Kurt Angle, the fans, AND Baron Corbin all deserved better. Match was pretty good, though. Unfortunately, they never capitalized on the heat for Corbin.
 
Lesnar over Taker, breaking the WM streak, has to be #1, surely?
Devils advocate: Lesnar breaking it wasn't a waste because it ultimately helped elevate Reigns even more in the long run to where he is now - legit at the top of the industry and finally accepted by the fans.

If you had to pick someone to break it, then who?
 
Devils advocate: Lesnar breaking it wasn't a waste because it ultimately helped elevate Reigns even more in the long run to where he is now - legit at the top of the industry and finally accepted by the fans.

If you had to pick someone to break it, then who?

Seems like it should have never been broken, to me.
 
Brock shouldn't have beaten the streak, Taker should've won that match. Brock and Taker spent the next several months trading wins back and forth anyway. Nothing came from it outside of the meme of them laughing at each other at Summerslam months later.

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When Roman beat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania 33 a couple years after Brock beat him that should've been the streak ender. Roman got so much fucking heat the next night on RAW and he wasn't even the guy that broke the streak, imagine if that was the match that did it. Roman has clearly shown in the years since he would've been a worthy choice also. It didn't do jack shit for Brock.
 
Devils advocate: Lesnar breaking it wasn't a waste because it ultimately helped elevate Reigns even more in the long run to where he is now - legit at the top of the industry and finally accepted by the fans.

If you had to pick someone to break it, then who?

Agree, and it was the right call. It was believable, built a monster heel into an even bigger monster, and I feel if it was anyone else they wouldve botched that character following it.
 
Devils advocate: Lesnar breaking it wasn't a waste because it ultimately helped elevate Reigns even more in the long run to where he is now - legit at the top of the industry and finally accepted by the fans.

If you had to pick someone to break it, then who?

If not Orton with that Chokeslam RKO counter, than nobody at all.
 
Vladimir Kozlov going over the Undertaker clean on Smackdown. He could have been a good asset for the company but quickly became a comedy act. He was a legit athlete as well.
 
I'm going way back and saying Kevin Nash ending Wrath's undefeated streak. That guy was poised to be the next Goldberg-type character at a time when WCW badly needed new main eventers. It made no sense for Nash to end that streak on Nitro with no build, especially because people forgot all about it when he went on to end Goldberg's.
 
Devils advocate: Lesnar breaking it wasn't a waste because it ultimately helped elevate Reigns even more in the long run to where he is now - legit at the top of the industry and finally accepted by the fans.

If you had to pick someone to break it, then who?

Funaki.

Duh.
 
Does hulk pinning sting with the non-fast count qualify as clean?
 

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