10 Major WWE Rumors That Never Came To Pass
8. The Rock Vs. Brock Lesnar At WrestleMania XXX
Truth be told, this whole list could be populated with planned WrestleMania matches that never came to pass, but we're going to focus on one in particular - one which would have generated a lot of mainstream media publicity. It would have seen the biggest star in Hollywood take on a former UFC Heavyweight Champion.
Even before WrestleMania 29 - where The Rock defended the WWE Championship against John Cena and Brock Lesnar inexplicably lost to Triple H - plans were being made for Lesnar versus The Rock the following year in New Orleans. There was even a minor tease for the match on TV. When Lesnar invaded WWE headquarters to destroy HHH's office, he took a moment to sneer at a poster of The Rock.
Unfortunately, The Rock suffered multiple muscle tears in his match with Cena, and that delayed production on his Hercules film. Movies, of course, are multi-million-dollar productions that require the efforts of hundreds of people, and studio executives weren't exactly appreciative of the fact that a movie got hamstrung because the star decided to go do some play fighting.
Despite the fact that a third Cena-Rock match was teased on the Raw after WrestleMania, The Rock soon made it clear that he couldn't compete so long as he had film commitments on his schedule - and given that he's the busiest man in show business, that pretty much meant always (his WrestleMania 32 classic with Erick Rowan notwithstanding).
The Brock match was, of course, cancelled.