10 "Major" Wrestling Promotions That Never Got Off The Ground

10. Worldwide Wrestling Promotions

One of the more poorly defined entries on the list, World Wrestling Promotions never even got close to promoting a show. Nevertheless, for a couple of months in 2010, it was the talk of the wrestling world.

The league, according to the news of the time, was going to be owned and operated by Milton Wilpon of the Wilpon family - real-estate developers best known as the owners of the New York Mets. Their deep pockets would theoretically allow for the company to snatch up anyone it wanted, and sure enough, rumors linked just about every major star not under contract to WWE or TNA with the group, from Scott Steiner to Konnan to Vader. Even Chris Jericho, who was approaching another sabbatical from WWE, was said to be in talks with them.

Before things ever got off the ground, though, news began to spread that executives recruited for the company were departing. Within months, talk of the league was dead, and nobody really knew why. Some people blamed the financial woes the Wilpon family incurred at the hands of Ponzi scheme-swindler Bernie Madoff, but it was later determined that they suffered no such losses. Even weirder, there was never any confirmation that Milton Wilpon actually existed, leaving the whole thing seeming fishier than a cat's lunch.