10 Best Surprise WWE Returns

7. The Undertaker - Judgment Day 2000

The Undertaker went down with a very painful groin injury in September 1999, the latest in a long list of physical ailments the Deadman had to endure during the decade. 

Ideally, he would have been back in time for WrestleMania 2000, but he tore his pectoral muscle while training for his comeback and would have to spend a lot longer on the shelf. 

Nobody really knew when he would be back, because WWE didn't tell us and, to be honest, the roster was so strong at that time that 'Taker's absence wasn't as strongly felt as it had been whenever he had to take time off to convalesce in earlier years. 

Though some creepy promos aired in the build to Judgment Day 2000, it was never explicitly said that they were for The Undertaker. The inclusion of the Kid Rock song 'American Badass' was hardly a giveaway, you know? 

All became clear on the night, though, when 'Taker returned in the final minute of The Rock and Triple H's WWE Title Iron Man match, riding to ringside not in his Ministry of Darkness getup, but biker clothes. 

It was breathless stuff, as the Phenom took out each member of D-Generation X, as well as the McMahons in a frantic finale.