WWE: 11 Superstars Who Will Be Shafted Come WrestleMania 30 Returns

alberto-del-rio-photo1 The WWE locker room has traditionally looked forward to Wrestlemania with enthusiastic anticipation. It's the biggest paying day of the WWE year - if a talent has a spot on the Wrestlemania card then they stand to make a considerable bonus from the mega earning event. In recent years however, the booking of Wrestlemania has been a source of huge frustration within the WWE locker room. The meritocracy of working hard all year to be rewarded with a big spot at Mania is no longer guaranteed. Increasingly it's transpiring that wrestlers will bust their a** all year only to be left off the Mania card completely. The reason for this has been the recent trend to book part time talent in the key Mania spots. It's a marketing strategy that has worked for Vince McMahon, his booking of the likes of Rock and Lesnar in prominent Mania spots has led big buy numbers the past few years. You can't really argue with the common sense in giving the audience what they want. It isn't Vince's fault that the part timers of Rock, Lesnar, Undertaker and Jericho are still more over than the majority of full timers. If the mainstay talent have a problem then they should perhaps work harder to get over you might argue. Nevertheless, talent grumbled significantly in the last two years when The Rock came in to take the biggest Mania pay cheque. The majority of talent seen it as a slap in the face, they were out working all year just to allow Rock to show up when he wanted to take a spot that could have been for one of their own. CM Punk made a point of this frustration when he showed up to a Wrestlemania 29 Press Conference wearing an Antonio Cesaro T-shirt, the talented grappler being a man whom Punk felt deserved to be featured on the card. It could be an even sorer point this year. The rumoured returns list for Wrestlemania 30 is vast. Hogan, Undertaker, Lesnar and Batista seem to be a given. Triple H will probably wrestle, as could Shawn Michaels. We could also possibly see RVD, Jericho, Goldberg and Sting. As an outside bet Rock and Austin may possibly even put in an appearance. With all these men possibly taking one of the big money earning spots on the Mania card, there are going to be some seriously p****d off full time talents. Here we examine the 11 superstars who are most likely to get shafted come Wrestlemania in favour of the returning part timers...
 
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