#3 Anyone BIG from another promotion
Goldberg looks like he’ll buck this trend this year, but with WCW so far away in the rear view mirror, only a small tweak is needed.
Vince McMahon has never let a true outsider (whose main career highlights occurred away from the WWE) close the show at his greatest creation and raise his hands in victory (I’m now certain that Lesnar squashes Goldberg @ 33).
A top AEW star just called one of his colleagues 'spoiled' and 'narcissistic' HERE.
More evidence to back this claim highlights the glittering (with the strongest sarcasm imaginable) Mania moments of Dusty Rhodes, Vader, Booker T, Arn Anderson, Barry Windham, Scott Steiner, Ron Simmons and even Sting!
Can an average WWE fan name a Japanese wrestler that’s performed at Mania, or an ECW original not named Rob Van Dam?
McMahon would not even let Hollywood Hogan back in the main event after he had bought the competition, even when jobbing to The Rock!
For this category to be so high on this list is really a reflection on what a huge mishap the Invasion angle was, and what Mania 18 in 2002 could have been for the company and the future of the wrestling business.