10 Biggest WrestleMania Roadblocks

Sometimes the road to WrestleMania needs to take a swerve.

This Saturday, WWE Roadblock airs live on the WWE Network, and the name is certainly appropriate - Triple H may be scheduled to defend the WWE World Heavyweight Championship against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 32, but if he loses the belt to Dean Ambrose on the Network specials, the entire complexion of the show of shows will change. Will Ambrose's WrestleMania match with Brock Lesnar become a title bout if "The Lunatic Fringe" is victorious? Or will Ambrose have to defend against his friend Roman Reigns, who already earned the right to challenge for the title at WrestleMania? Where would that leave Triple H and Lesnar? Yes, it is unlikely that Dean Ambrose will upset "The Game," but similar things have happened in the past. Try as WWE might, it's hard to keep the road to WrestleMania a straight one. Twists and turns are commonplace, and matches that get announced for the Showcase of the Immortals don't always end up reaching the show unchanged. In short, Dean Ambrose wouldn't be the first roadblock a title match faces on the road to WrestleMania. Some have been manufactured by WWE for storytelling purposes and others have been created by real-life circumstance. Here are the top 10:

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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013