10 Best WWE Wrestlers Never To Main Event WrestleMania

On paper, the headline spot of WrestleMania is supposed to be reserved for the very cream of the WWE crop. Only the biggest and most popular performers are worthy of closing out the Show of Shows, declare the traditionalists.

And yet, casting a cursory eye down the list of wrestlers to have been afforded this privilege over the years, it is striking just how many of them aren't really all that great. Mr. T got top billing in the inaugural event, for example, with Lawrence Taylor following in his footsteps ten years later.

What we're getting at here is that any employees who worked for Vince McMahon for more than a couple of years and didn't manage to main event on the Grandest Stage of Them All have every right to feel aggrieved - particularly those who have gone down as some of the all-time best in the industry.

The good news is that, with eight-time main eventer Hulk Hogan now being airbrushed out of much of the highlight reel footage, there's a good chance that your under-card bout could be retrospectively elevated in his place.

Before any other wrestlers featured on this list think about complaining, they should probably spare a thought for the late, great Mr. Perfect. Not only did he never main event WrestleMania, he also never held the WWE Championship.

Neither did he really get the opportunity to contest many history-making matches on the Grandest Stage of Them All, his handful of appearances coming alongside comparatively subpar workers like Lex Luger and Brutus Beefcake.

His legacy as one of the industry's great ring masters, however, is secured thanks to the many great performances he put in during the early 1990s, most famously with Ric Flair, Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.

Perhaps it is true that his limited drawing power was such that he could never really be given the task of closing out Vince McMahon's biggest show of the year, but if we're talking strictly in terms of in-ring ability, few snubs are as notable as this one.