Wrestlers That Were Elevated After A Loss?
By Scott Keith on 20 February 2019
After the recent Drew Gulak vs Matt Riddle match on NXT, I got to thinking; What wrestlers were actually elevated via a loss in a match? My prime 2 examples were Steve Austin after his submission match defeat to Bret Hart at W.M. 13 in 1997, and The 1-2-3 Kid after his WWF Title match loss to Bret Hart on Raw in 1994. (So obviously Bret Hart was the key to most of these things.)
Rock was elevated by losing to HHH at Summerslam 98 in the ladder match and pretty much stole Hunter's thunder, in fact. Even though no one ever put HHH over to get him to the top.