10 Wrestlers Likely To Miss WWE WrestleMania 38

10. Apollo Crews

This year, WWE told one of its most unconvincing, self-own stories via Seth Rollins and Kevin Owens fearing that they'd miss out on WrestleMania this year.

This is the worst.

Why would a competent promotion all but admit that they hadn't located a spot on the card for two of their most enduring star acts? Why would a competent promotion insinuate that former World Champions Rollins and Owens are too rubbish to even do a job at 'Mania? Would The Rock, in the Attitude Era, beg to interview Pedro Morales just to grace Vince McMahon's most famous stage? Just to sniff it?

No.

Because The Rock was a star. The implication is that Owens is not. The root problem of wrestling fandom is that wrestling functions to create stars and not enough people know what a star is.

It's literally true in the case of Apollo Crews, who last year was a midcard mainstay on SmackDown after Vince devised a gimmick that said as much about WWE's lack of buzz and interest as it did its vile, regressive essence.

Once Vince tired of it, Apollo vanished from screens entirely, and while he was recently reintroduced, it was as "associate of distant second-best giant", which doesn't bode well for his 'Mania payday.