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1	-> ''"[[Wrestling/MickFoley Mankind]] has achieved his dream, and the dream of everyone whose been told, you can't do it!"''
2	-->-- ''Wrestling/MichaelCole, on the night Mick Foley [[Wrestling/MondayNightWars won the WWF Championship]].''
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4	* This is the main format of a standard wrestling match. The face starts out strong but is quickly taken over by the heel, is beaten up and worn down to when the crowd is sure they're done...until they manage to come back and pull off the win.
5	* Wrestling/TrishStratus embodied this trope as she was hired by WWE with no wrestling ability and appalling mic skills. Over the years she trained and became one of the most accomplished and talented wrestlers in the company. She was rewarded with a retirement match in her hometown of Toronto against long time rival Wrestling/{{Lita}} with the Women's title on the line. She ended the match by making Lita tap out to the Sharpshooter and was given a standing ovation from the crowd as well as the staff at ringside.
6	* Wrestling/JeffHardy also embodied this trope during the second half of 2008. He fought countless times for the WWE title against Wrestling/TripleH; he always came close to beating him, but was never able to. In a promo, Triple H even tried to undermine Hardy's self-esteem by claiming that he'd never win a world title, and that they're in different leagues. To add insult to the injury, Wrestling/{{Edge\|Wrestler}} took Hardy's place at Survivor Series, winning the WWE championship. However, at the next PPV, Armaggedon, Jeff Hardy defeated both Edge and Triple H in a Triple Threat Match to become WWE champion for the first and, so far, only time.
7	* This happened to, believe it or not, [[Wrestling/MattCardona Zack Ryder]]. He started off 2011 as just a perennial lower card jobber, but quickly gained popularity through his ''Z! True Long Island Story'' web show. As the year progressed, he started to pick up steam and became a contender for the United States Championship, even gaining the support of Wrestling/JohnCena[[note]]Cena ultimately sacrificed a WWE Championship shot at WWE TLC to give Ryder a well-deserved US Title match.[[/note]]. The culmination came at ''Tables, Ladders, and Chairs'', when Ryder defeated Wrestling/DolphZiggler (the current US Champion) to finally capture his first singles title in WWE. Not bad for an Internet sensation.
8	* {{Invoked\|Trope}} by Wrestling/TheUndertaker during his feud with Wrestling/ShawnMichaels in 2009-2010:
9	-->''Sometimes it is Hell trying to get to Heaven.''
10	* Generally the case for ''Wrestling/WrestleMania'' main events, usually involving a face wrestler finally achieving his dream in front of a grand stage. Look no further than Wrestling/ShawnMichaels at ''[=WrestleMania=] 12'', Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin at ''[=WrestleMania=] 14'' and John Cena and Wrestling/{{Batista}} at ''[=WrestleMania=] 21'' for some notable examples.
11	* After months of getting screwed over by the Authority, [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]] finally won the title back at ''Wrestlemania 30,'' first by beating Triple H, then by going over Randy Orton and Batista in a triple threat match in the main event that night. [[{{Determinator}} He wrestled for nearly a full hour along the way.]]
12	* Wrestling/MattHardy after a heartbreaking betrayal in his personal life kicked off a decade of shaky backstage relationships, creative frustrations, multiple failed rebirths[[labelnote:see]]every "Year of Matt Hardy" claim he's given over the years[[/labelnote]] and falls off the wagon[[labelnote:see]]the multiple rows of DUI arrests that got him fired from TNA the first time[[/labelnote]], and even reaching the ultimate low of faking a thinly veiled suicide note to test his fandom, which was finally enough to piss off his friends into setting him straight; Matt has gradually picked himself back up over the past few years. Apologizing to wrestling fans in [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} some companies]] and reinventing himself as an iconic heel to them in [[Wrestling/RingOfHonor others]], he has turned his life around for the most part, earned back most of the respect he'd lost in his downfall, and become a husband to Reby Sky, father to their son Maxel, and [[spoiler:Matt finally became [[http://www.wrestling-titles.com/us/tna/tna-h.html TNA World Heavyweight Champion]] at Bound for Glory 2015]].
13	* After being betrayed by fellow Shield member Wrestling/SethRollins, [[Wrestling/JonMoxley Dean Ambrose]] spent the next two years seeking revenge on Rollins and fighting Wrestling/TheAuthority whilst also chasing after the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, only to be [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle screwed at every opportunity by either outside intereference, reversed decisions, or generally coming up just short in his pursuits.]] Then, at Money in the Bank 2016, with the Authority having given up power and no longer terrorizing the roster, Ambrose won the Money in the Bank briefcase and finally avenged Rollins' betrayal by cashing in said briefcase after Rollins had just defeated Roman Reigns to win his first World Heavyweight Championship.
14	* Wrestling/JakeRoberts embodies this trope in real life. Having gone through the majority of his life on drugs and an estranged relationship with his family he was well on his way to becoming a wrestling tragedy. Till he sought help from DDP's yoga program and it helped him not only kick his drug habit but got back into the good graces with his family.
15	* Wrestling/BeckyLynch started 2018 absolutely languishing at the bottom of the Women's Division, slogging through pointless filler matches with other similarly underused wrestlers and never receiving a noticeable push in spite of being a former champion with seemingly invincible popularity with the fanbase until the triple-threat match for the Smackdown Women's Championship at ''Wrestling/{{SummerSlam}} 2018'' and the following FaceHeelTurn to Wrestling/CharlotteFlair. What followed was a series of events that cemented Becky as the top woman of ''the entire WWE'', including winning the Smackdown title at ''Wrestling/HellInACell 2018'', the Last Woman Standing match at ''Evolution'', and the go-home Raw episode for ''Survivor Series 2018'' with the broken face.\
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17	Enter ''2019'', she's literally at the highest point of her entire career, with a new, cooler AntiHero persona, and more over than ever, a second title reign come and gone, and - most importantly - the hard-won respect and faith of the company and even Wrestling/VinceMcMahon himself. Becky's unprecedentedly meteoric rocket-jump to the top of the company can really best be summed up by the fact that, on the New Year's special of ''[=SmackDown=]'', she not only had the chance to wrestle a mixed tag match alongside Wrestling/JohnCena — actually a noted and long-term supporter of Becky's out of character — but was categorically put over by Big Match John not just as a trusted future prospect, but ''as Cena's potential successor as the face of the company.'' It even started looking more and more likely that she, Wrestling/RondaRousey, and Wrestling/CharlotteFlair would ''main-event Wrestling/WrestleMania 35'', to the point where Becky was openly saying this and taking the credit for it on WWE programming as the face in the angle. Not long after, the Rousey–Flair–Lynch match was indeed announced as the WM 35 main event--and more importantly, Becky ''won'', becoming a double champion and ending Rousey's yearlong unbeaten run.

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