WWE 2K20: 7 Most Shocking Roster Omissions

3. Mansoor

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The suggestion that Mansoor, an NXT trainee with fewer television matches under his proverbial trouser-straps than you can count on two hands, should be in 2K's latest WWE effort should be and indeed is patently ridiculous. Yet so was the plan to have the Saudi Arabia-born man of such meagre accolades win Super Show-down's 50-but-actually-51-man Battle Royal, purely for political purposes.

But it happened. Mansoor's status was elevated from literally nobody to almost somebody when he claimed his dramatic, shock victory on a show widely billed by the company as 'equal to or greater than WrestleMania'. Obviously, he's completely vanished from the face of the planet since then - this was very much an ephemeral triumph for a localised audience (albeit presented on a worldwide stage). If WWE's marketing bluster had any credence - and admittedly, we know it doesn't - Mansoor would now be a bona fide superstar ripe for digital inclusion. He isn't, and so isn't.

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