10 Wrestlers Who No Sold Huge Losses
Laughing off huge defeats, popping back up from emphatic finishers, and more hilarious no-sells.
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00:00 From instantly popping back up and strutting back down the ramp after being dealt an L,
00:03 to waltzing out on Raw the very next night as though nothing ever happened post-defeat,
00:08 this lot made a mockery of looking up at the lights when all was said and done.
00:11 Gareth here from WhatCulture Wrestling and here are 10 Wrestlers Who No-Souled Huge Losses.
00:16 10. Brock Lesnar quickly turns his attention to the game
00:19 Remember when former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar returned to WB programming in 2012
00:24 after 8 long years away, and then went on to beat the ever-loving crap out of John Cena in
00:29 his first bout back, only to end up hilariously on the receiving end of an attitude adjustment
00:34 on the steel steps and a loss out of the gates? Well, don't worry if that last part is a little
00:38 fuzzy because the Beast Encounter himself also seemed to forget all about that particular detail,
00:43 when it came time to rock back up on Monday Night Raw the very next night.
00:47 Showing not so much as a scratch from the previous evening's bloody Extreme Rules War,
00:51 Lesnar defiantly announced that the world got to witness first-hand Brock Lesnar bring in the pain.
00:56 And while Triple H would do his utmost to remind the returning contract rebel of the
01:00 actual result of said Cena skirmish, Brock effectively no-souled the contest. An odd
01:04 on-screen political drama between the Game and then-head of talent relations John Laurinaitis,
01:09 before beating the piss out of his next sparring partner to set up their incoming program.
01:13 If Brock doesn't mention it, it didn't happen.
01:15 9. Finn Balor joins the Judgment Day
01:18 Finally aligning with fellow Bullet Club alumni AJ Styles on WBTV earlier this year,
01:23 it looked as though Finn Balor could actually be on the cusp of a spell not involving him
01:27 eating many a defeat at the hands of whoever Vince McMahon was obsessed with at that current moment.
01:31 Rather depressingly, that promise was quickly extinguished by the time Balor,
01:34 Styles and Liv Morgan eventually went at it with the Judgment Day at Hell in a Cell,
01:38 with the Prince getting emphatically spared post-Rhea Ripley blockade,
01:42 en route to being pinned by the villain's overlord Edge.
01:45 In a rather unexpected turn of events though, instead of limping out onto Monday Night Raw
01:49 the next night with his tail well and truly between his Balor legs, the former NXT champion
01:54 was all smiles as he looked set to join up with Edge's gothic faction. And in a move that was
01:59 likely more of a reflection of the WB Hall of Famer not being all too keen to head down the
02:03 supernatural road with his disciples, Balor would then help oust Edge as he bizarrely took over
02:08 leadership duties just 24 hours on from being embarrassed by the trio, and being responsible
02:14 for his unit picking up the feud-ending loss. It's all a bit strange.
02:17 8. John Cena rolls with the finishing Elimination Chamber punches
02:21 Around the time of the late noughties, John Cena had successfully evolved into the near
02:25 indomitable presence more often than not found spearheading WWE programming. So having Super
02:30 Cena be suddenly dumped out of an Elimination Chamber bout midway through the action was the
02:34 sort of development capable of dropping jaws the world over. And that was precisely what went down
02:39 during No Way Out 2009's World Heavyweight Championship skirmish, as he consumed a
02:44 whopping three rather over finishers on his way out the door. Instead of selling the sheer impact
02:49 of being co-breakered, speared and 619'd into next week, however, Cena had other ideas.
02:54 Now, nobody should have expected the now former world champ to lay battered for the remaining
02:58 seven minutes or so, but having Cena comically roll out of the ring like a man in need of a
03:02 quick breather made the preceding trio of finishers look strangely feeble. When you nail with three of
03:07 the most devastating moves of the period in quick succession, would it have been too much to ask
03:12 for a moment to let the weight of the finishers land before darting off out of the action?
03:16 Probably not, Cena.
03:17 7. Bray Wyatt looks forward to a fresh start
03:20 Given the fact Bray Wyatt's children's TV presenter alter ego skipped back into the spotlight
03:25 on the first Raw post-37th show of shows, and declared he felt great and that this could be
03:30 a brand new start for him and all of his funhouse critters, it definitely looked like WWE were
03:35 wasting little time burying his wholly disappointing Viper debacle and defeat in the ground. However,
03:40 in perhaps an even stranger development than Wyatt's fiend surviving being literally burned
03:45 alive, the star would then completely disappear from WWE programming in the subsequent weeks,
03:50 before being ultimately cut loose in July. Far from delivering the fresh start that was
03:54 gleefully pitched just a few hours on from another momentum killer of a loss, Wyatt's comical no-selling
03:59 of Orton's red-tinted riot now sits as his final act of a 12-year rollercoaster of a WWE ride.
04:06 6. Hawk pings up after a 5-star chokeslam
04:09 The May 13th, 2003 edition of Monday Night Raw saw the returning Road Warriors collide
04:14 with World Tag Team Champions Kane and Rob Van Dam over the duo's straps. Despite this match
04:19 acting as something of an audition for a full-time spot on the roster for their legendary unit,
04:24 it ultimately wasn't to be, and their chances likely weren't helped by Hawk's unflattering
04:28 reaction to the champ's chokeslam-5-star-frog-splash combination. With the iconic Legion of Doom
04:33 putting in a solid enough shift up to that point, an evidently vexed Hawk reacted to eating the
04:38 majority of the damage on offer in the bout by darting back up to his feet before RVD and the
04:43 Big Red Machine could even raise their titles in triumph. In the end, this would also act as
04:48 Hawk's final appearance in a WWE ring, before he succumbed to a sudden heart attack a few months
04:52 later. 5. AJ Styles shrugs off an anything-but-phenomenal
04:56 Mania debut AJ Styles didn't get off to the most successful
05:00 of starts when it comes to his show-of-shows career. In a bout that looked as though it had
05:04 show-stealer ridden all over it heading into WrestleMania 32, the Phenomenal One went at it
05:08 with one-time Y2AJ teammate Chris Jericho in a serviceable rematch. However, upon doing the
05:15 favours for a veteran who clearly didn't need the grandest stage rub, the events that would unfold
05:19 on the following night's episode of Raw made that call look even more baffling in hindsight.
05:24 Dumped into a fatal four-way to decide new WWE Champion Roman Reigns' first challenger,
05:29 the former New Japan Pro Wrestling and TNA darling completely no-sold his Mania failure,
05:34 and set his sights firmly on the Big Dog strap as the likes of Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens and Chris
05:38 Jericho all joined him in scrapping for a spell. If that wasn't enough, Styles would then go on to
05:43 win the whole damn thing in the evening's main event, completely palming off his lacklustre
05:48 first night on the Mania job in next to no time. 4. Braun Strowman instantly gets one back on
05:53 Sights & Fury Acting as the culmination of a program that now feels as though it went down
05:58 in an entirely alternate reality, Braun Strowman found himself squaring up against heavyweight
06:02 world champion boxer Tyson Fury under the bright lights of the King Fahd Stadium in Saudi Arabia
06:08 back at Crown Jewel 2019. Determined not to have the mainstream superstar suffer a loss in his first
06:13 ever professional wrestling showing, but sensing that having their monster among men look like an
06:17 utter fool wouldn't do them any favours either, WWE hatched a master plan of sorts to ensure both
06:22 men looked strong as the dust settled on the Monster Mash. Well, they tried. Hot on the heels
06:27 of the Gypsy King picking up the W via deeply deflating countout, on the back of a knockout
06:32 right hand on the apron, Strowman effectively shrugged off a shot that had put down genuine
06:37 boxing sensations to deliver a running powerslam on the victor mere moments after said losing effort.
06:43 Further diluting the Saudi showdown, the two apparent bitter rivals would then share a polite
06:48 handshake in the ring on the next edition of Smackdown, before obviously beating the piss
06:52 out of the B-Team. 3. Austin Aries pops straight back up
06:55 By the time Austin Aries bolted upright seconds after Johnny Impact's crowning moment at Bound
07:00 for Glory 2018, most had chosen to entirely check out when it pertained to the wacky
07:05 developments usually found going down within the promotion during this odd period. Matters weren't
07:10 exactly helped by Impact's reaction to Aries and Johnny's surreal Twitter feud either, with the
07:14 Wrestling Observer later reporting that management wasn't happy with their unapproved work on the
07:19 social media platform due to it potentially contradicting their plans in the long run.
07:23 It's still not exactly clear as to whether or not the promotion actually greenlit the abrupt exit
07:28 post-defeat too. Despite Dave Meltzer feeling as though it would only be a matter of time before
07:32 Aries showed up on the Impact scene again, on the back of his contract expiring, further behind
07:37 the scenes developments would result in the greatest man who ever lived ultimately declining
07:41 a new deal and ending his Impact career on one of the strangest beats of its era. And that is
07:46 saying something. 2. MJF brushes off his Wardlow squash
07:49 Thoroughly delivering on a storyline that had been unfolding since the early days of AEW's
07:54 existence, Maxwell Jacob Freeman would finally be forced to pay for his consistently despicable
07:59 treatment of his one-time war dog bodyguard at this year's Double or Nothing event. However,
08:03 instead of the focus being on Wardlow's star-making performance throughout the program and during the
08:08 emphatic squash on the night of the PPV itself, the wrestling world was more interested in what
08:12 the future held for the salt of the earth on the back of a rather eventful weekend.
08:16 Fresh off of no-showing a meet-and-greet before the May 29th event, MJF was shockingly handed a
08:21 live mic on Dynamite to air his grievances in regards to not being paid the same amount as
08:26 ex-WWE guys. And while Maxwell did at least momentarily offer a nod to the substantial
08:31 battering he was subjected to at the hands of his former employee, the speed in which he glossed
08:35 over that absolute massacring took pretty much all of the attention away from the pair's near
08:39 three-year-long narrative, and directed it solely on his new work-shoot war with his boss.
08:45 Triple H laughs off Jeff Hardy
08:46 After finally returning to the WWE stage and seemingly getting a handle on his demons at
08:51 the time, it looked as though Jeff Hardy was well on his way to becoming a serious main event player
08:56 in 2007. An intercontinental title win would eventually pave the way for an intriguing
09:00 rivalry with Triple H, as the two popular faces went at it over the right to challenge for the
09:05 WWE Championship at the 2008 Royal Rumble events at Armageddon. And while the Game would be forced
09:10 to do the J-O-B at this moment in time, in order to give Hardy the much-needed rub in the lead-up
09:15 to an eventual showdown with Randy Orton at the next PPV, Trip still had a few tricks up his sleeve
09:20 to ensure he didn't come out of the closely fought battle looking inferior to his friendly adversary.
09:25 Selling the nature of arguably Hardy's most important singles win at that point, in the same
09:29 way you would being cheekily pranked by a younger sibling, a genuinely surprising and thrilling
09:34 result was entirely undercut by the cerebral assassin's smug grin, and with it later becoming
09:39 known just how against Hardy's eventual ascent to the top of the mountain, Trip's legitimately was
09:44 behind the scenes, it's not too hard to see what his intentions likely were with these petty losing
09:49 antics. And that's our list! Know of any other wrestlers who no-sold huge losses? Let us know
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