10 Wrestlers Who Narrowly Missed A WWE WrestleMania Main Event

5. Seth Rollins (WrestleMania 32)

No guarantees about this one, but having held the WWE World Heavyweight Championship for most of 2015, Seth Rollins had put himself in pole position to compete for the belt at the following WrestleMania. His opponent would probably have been Roman Reigns, or possibly both Reigns and Dean Ambrose in the long-awaited Shield Triple Threat match.

But failing that, Rollins was also being touted for a feud with his mentor at the time, Triple H, in a rivalry that wouldn’t have necessarily been for the title, but would have nonetheless been a main event-calibre match for ‘Mania.

Still, the exact nature of his WrestleMania role would never come to be down. In November 2015, during a routine house show match on a European tour, Rollins tore just about every ligament in his right knee. Surgery followed shortly thereafter, along with a spell of more than six months spent waiting on the sidelines - a period that cruelly covered WrestleMania.

As one of the company’s top acts at the time, that knee injury robbed him of what would surely have been one of the biggest matches on the WrestleMania 32 card.