10 Wrestlers Who Didn’t Deserve To Be On The Cover Of A Wrestling Game

3. Stone Cold Steve Austin – WWE 2K16

Stone Cold’s reasoning for not being deserving of fronting 2K16 are similar to why Rock shouldn’t have fronted 2K14 but worse. The Rock at least feuded with CM Punk, headlined WrestleMania and won the WWE Championship the same year he fronted 2K14. Steve Austin did none of these things in 2015 when 2K16 was released.

Steve Austin obviously retired in 2003 and hasn’t laced up a pair of boots since and won’t in the future, with him reiterating in multiple interviews when asked about the prospect of one more match “I can’t wrestle anymore, I don’t live in the past.”

So it must have been considered a gigantic slap in the face to the whole WWE roster when a legend that hadn’t competed for WWE in 13 years was fronting the annual WWE game that year. Whilst being the cover star of a WWE game is monumentally cool thing to accomplish in a wrestler’s career, it’s a very good pay day too. So understandably numerous wrestlers must have been upset over missing out on this.

Seth Rollins in particular, who was leading the charge for WWE as their top attraction that year. If WWE and 2K wanted a legend on the cover they could have at least put The Undertaker on there, as he was still competing on pay per views that year.