5 times the heel stood tall in the WrestleMania main event

#3 WrestleMania XXVII

Fans rightfully assumed that Wrestlemania XXVII would end with an image like this

At the very height of the Cena era, The Doctor of Thugonomics challenged everyone's future favorite A-lister (and new dad) The Miz for The Miz's WWE Championship. In the "LOLCenaWins" period of WWE's history, the basic assumption was that Cena would be exiting the Georgia Dome the champion yet again, having earned the right to challenge for it by handily winning RAW's Elimination Chamber match in February. In addition to Cena being Cena, Miz was the heel, and heels were supposed to be in danger at the company's biggest show.

Throughout the story between this match's two competitors, though, was the perpetual antagonism of Wrestlemania XXVII's honorary host, The Rock; making his first major Wrestlemania appearance since the re-formed Rock 'N' Sock Connection took on Evolution at Wrestlemania XX, Rock took potshots at both competitors throughout the beginning of 2011, and throughout this show.

A cheap ending becomes an even cheaper swerve

During the match, Cena and The Miz brawled out into the ringside area, then into the crowd, reaching a double knockout in the ringside seating area as the referee counted both men out. The Rock would re-enter the picture, declaring that a show like Wrestlemania cannot end on without a definitive finish to its main event, and ordered the match to be restarted; with Miz and Cena back in the ring, Rock would exact revenge on the leader of the Cenation for an attack on the go-home edition of RAW earlier that week.

The Miz executes his 2011 finisher: Someone Else Does All the Work

A Rock Bottom put Cena down long enough for the villainous The Miz to make the cover for three but, like the last time The Rock was present for a heel championship victory in the show closer, The Rock dispatched the A-lister with a People's Elbow, and the broadcast faded to black with The People's Champion posing triumphantly over the victorious WWE Champion.