10 Insane WrestleMania Main Events That Nearly Happened

The stars aligned at WrestleMania X-Seven, when the two biggest starts of the Attitude Era main evented the Granddaddy of Them All.

Six weeks earlier, it didn't look as simple at that.

Just over a year after making his debut, Kurt Angle was riding high as the WWE Champion. Vince McMahon had strapped a rocket to the most legitimate wrestler in the company and, having come through a six-man Hell in a Cell match against some of the biggest stars in the business, then beaten Triple H a month later, there was no sign of this push coming to an end.

Enter The Rock.

Despite Angle proving he could hang with the big boys, nobody wanted to see him face the Texas Rattlesnake in his hometown. The contrast of Kurt's technically and Steve's brawling could've made a compelling Granddaddy main event, but in 2001, as the Attitude Era came to an end, It was the right decision to end the Angle experiment and give us the two biggest stars of the 2000s slugging it out in the main event again.

The Rock was out of WWE a week after X-Seven; with Angle as Austin's opponent, they might've carried on the feud into Backlash, erasing "Stone Cold" teaming with Triple H from history.