5 times when the crowd was emotionally invested in a WWE title win

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You know what is better than winning the biggest prize in sports entertainment- whether it is the WWE or World title? - Having the audience emotiuonally invested in your victory.There is nothing better than getting the audience’s attention, which is a cardinal rule of professional wrestling or entertainment per se, and making them care about you. It may as well be the most difficuly task to attain. So much of professional wrestling suffere because of its inability to make people care about the product.But wrestling fans are amongst the most passionate in the world. And so often they have played the most important part in making a WWE title victory glorious for some wrestlers.Here are those 5 moments-

#6 Honorable Mention- Shawn Michaels

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The year was 2002. HBK made an unforeseen return to the landscape of the WWE, the same landscape that he had left, rather retired from, 4 years prior. His back injury still showed traces of existence. 2002 saw Michaels get invested in one of the most emotionally amplified feuds against his real life best friend Triple H.

Triple H, as is his game, played the heel part to aplomb and Michaels was the sympathetic babyface- a complete U-turn fromn his youthful, arrogant former self.

His back injury and the pain that it induced was palpable for the audience and despite all of that he won his first match in four years against Triple H at Summerslam. The feud continued over to Survivor Series, where despite that one victory, Triple H bullied a man who was once his friend and kept making his life miserable. It was only apt to have a title match and in the debut of the Elimination Chamber, Michaels unpredictably and to a loud, mammoth appreciation of teh crowd won his last world championship.

#5 Eddie Guerrero beats The Beast

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Brock Lesnar was and is always good at beating up people. It never gets old. He was built as one of the most destructible forces ever since he stepped foot into the WWE.

Eddie Guerrero was the guy who despite his immense talent was always stuck in the mid to lower mid card. He was never the guy for the big, burly, protocol following main event scene. But things seemed to change in 2004. A major change, that is.

Eddie Guerrero walked into the arena that housed his hometown crowd with his ‘Lie, cheat and steal’ gimmick and frog splashed his way to his maiden WWE Championship victory against a man that is Brock Lesnar.

The arena was a scene of pure jubiliation and vindication for a stellar talent.

#4 Chris Benoit

Speaking of big.burly builds, Chris Benoit was far from this category as well. But 2004, that landmark year, saw Benoit win his first World title on the grandest of all stages- the Main Event of Wrestlemania. Jim Ross’ voice- the real voice of the WWE- choked by the end of the match. This was a glorious moment that signified a dream finally coming true. He made Triple H tap out to the Cross face and the image that came to the fore was one that literally transfixed the meaning of ‘Blood, sweat and tears.’

And then, we see Eddie Guerrero come to the ring and give us that iconic moment of celebration.

#3 Dolph Ziggler cashes in

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For the longest time the only question trailing Dolph Ziggler was- When will this guy catch a break?

And even though that question still prevails, there is one moment that will stand the test of time. It exemplifies the aura of the Raw after Wrestlemania.

It was the night that saw an infectious flurry of ‘Yes’ chants and ‘We Want Ziggler’ chants.

And like clockwork Ziggler and the WWE answered that call and in a spectacular sequence of events where it seemed likely that he’ll be the first to lose a cash-in, Ziggler thrived and survived and then won.

#2 Chicago Made Punk

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Even if WWE ever decide to scrape the Money In The Bank PPV, this memory shall always remain. This was the moment which more or less stamped the fact that WWE is moving towards some much-needed change. CM Punk created the story of the summer with his Pipebomb promo and then he and John Cena created what can now be called one of the greatest rivalries in WWE history. Nothing compares to that in the PG Era.

And all of that can be defined with this one match at Money In The bank 2011 where Punk made his way in his hometown and gave them what has become an iconic scene of rebeliousness, with Punk, albeit for a week, kissing WWE goodbye

#1 The Yes Movement

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Nothing exemplifies the passion of wrestling fans than the rise of Daniel Bryan- a guy much like Chris Benoit and Eddie Guerrero who was never meant to be anywhere near the main event scene but yet made it. And it all started with his world title LOSS in 18 seconds at Wrestlemania 28.

Daniel Bryan was also never meant to main event Wrestlemania. It was because of this reason and the predictability of Batista’s Royal Rumble victory that the audience leapt on to creating one of the most significant movements in Wrestling history. The Yes Movement (and CM Punk’s sudden departure) led Daniel Bryan to the Road to the Wrestlemania main event.

He started Wrestlemania with a stellar match and ended the night with a stellar moment with the arena rising for the Yes chant. His victory came when WWE replicated Chris Benoit’s title victory with Bryan locking Batista into the Yes Lock and making him submit. Poetic and glorious.