5 greatest moments in WrestleMania for Royal Rumble match winners

WrestleMania 30 Press Conference

1. Kurt Angle vs Randy Orton vs Rey Mysterio for the World Heavyweight Championship, at WrestleMania 22

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Mysterio overcame all the odds to become the champion

Kurt Angle had won the World Heavyweight Championship in a Battle Royal on Smackdown. From there on, he was nicknamed as "The Wrestling Machine" as he was in the best shape of his career.

At No Way Out 2006, Kurt Angle defended his title successfully against the Undertaker. In the same event, Randy Orton also defeated the Royal Rumble winner Rey Mysterio, thereby earning a Championship opportunity to make it a triple-threat encounter at WrestleMania.

The much-anticipated match began with Orton attacking Angle with the World Heavyweight Championship belt even before the bell rang. Kurt Angle performed a double German suplex on Mysterio and Orton with Mysterio being taken out . For a while, Orton and Angle fought each other.

With Mysterio back in the fray, he took out Orton with a top turnbuckle Hurricanrana. Rey Mysterio had Kurt Angle in position for the 619, however, Angle caught his leg and scissored into an Ankle Lock. Mysterio had been tapping out to it, but Orton had the referee distracted.

Kurt Angle sent Mysterio out of the ring with an Angle Slam, and this time it was Orton who had become the victim of an Ankle Lock. Mysterio broke the move with a leg drop by bouncing off the top rope.

Angle attempted an Angle Slam on Orton, but, Orton countered it to put down Angle into an RKO for a near fall.

After Randy Orton performed a Gut-Wrench Neck-Breaker on Rey Mysterio, Angle executed the Angle Slam on Orton. Kurt Angle had also Mysterio in sight for the Angle Slam, but Mysterio escaped it successfully to send him outside the ring and sent Orton hanging on the middle rope for the 619.

Rey Mysterio, after a 619 ,hit a West Coast Pop to cover Orton and win the World Heavyweight Championship.

In my opinion, Rey Mysterio's Royal Rumble and the championship win at WrestleMania were the greatest wins pulled off by an underdog superstar.

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Edited by Gabby Duran
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