Brett Hodgson sparked two second-half tries and scored a third to give Warrington their third Challenge Cup title in four years with a 35-18 win over Leeds at Wembley.
The former Wests Tigers fullback was given the Lance Todd Man of the Match award as Warrington ran away with the second half, despite going in ahead just 12-10 after a rain-soaked first half.
Alongside Hodgson it was the Monaghan brothers who starred in the opening 40 minutes, as former Canberra Raider Joel won his first piece of silverware since following Michael to Warrington.
Joel Monaghan opened the scoring in style in the seventh minute, rising high to take a sublime chip from No.7 Richie Myler after the Wolves cut Leeds’ line open with a series of sharp offloads.
With the exception of a Hodgson line-break, the Leeds forward pack, led by former New Zealand Maori prop Kylie Leuluai, began to gain momentum and it took a last-ditch tackle by Joel Monaghan to dislodge the ball from England international Ryan Hall, with the try-line at his mercy, on 15 minutes.
Three minutes later no-one could stop Leeds interchange Ian Kirke who crashed over with two defenders hanging off him.
England’s Kevin Sinfield added four points with the boot for Leeds before Michael Monaghan, looking to add to his 2009 and 2010 medals, came off the bench on 26 minutes with instant impact.
Raising the tempo from dummy-half he drew a penalty for a high tackle and had a hand in a smart passing move that put Trent Waterhouse power over from short range.
With a minute to play Joel Monaghan leapt highest to claim a cross-kick on his own line, only for the referee to penalise an obstruction on the jumping Hall.
Sinfield slotted the penalty from 15 metres out to take his side in 12-10 down at the half.
The second half opened with a bang, delivered straight from Leuluai’s shoulder to Hodgson’s head, as he returned a kick from his own line.
The hit left the fullback flat on his back and the ball loose, but Brett Delaney was brought back by the video referee for a knock-on.
Hodgson showed no after-effects when, ten minutes later, he threw a perfect cut-out pass to hit England international Ryan Atkins who put wing Chris Riley over untouched.
Hodgson missed the touchline kick but got another shot at it on 55 minutes, after a carbon copy of the previous try put Atkins over in the corner.
Yet again Hodgson was the provider, and added the conversion to make it 22-10.
With Leeds clearly shaken, a Joel Monaghan break down the right-side led to loose-forward Tyrone McCarthy going over to stretch the lead and give Hodgson an easy kick to make it 28-10.