10 Part-Timers Who Screwed With The WWE Roster

9. The Dead Man Kills The Hopes And Dreams Of The Undercard

When The Bella Twins came back to WWE in March 2013, one of the perks they were promised was a match at that year's WrestleMania. That match - an eight-person mixed tag with Team Rhodes Scholars versus Tons Of Funk & The Funkadactyls - never took place, although it was on the advertised card. In point of fact, all eight of the participants were warming up and ready to go backstage only a short time before their scheduled start. The Bellas even tweeted a picture of their team backstage engaged in a group hug as they psyched themselves up. Everything was hunky dory... until they were told that the preceding match had run significantly over time.

As a consequence, the mixed eight-person tag was cancelled with minutes to go, and eight WWE performers missed out on their WrestleMania moment. The match that overran? The Undertaker vs. CM Punk. The actual bout went twenty-three minutes - but nearly forty when you factor in the video package, entrances, and so on. There's no word on how long it was supposed to run, but there was no buffer at the end of the card, and no space elsewhere to cut by that point in the night.

Sure, the Punk/'Taker match was probably the best thing on the show, and if they needed to go long and kick a nothing tag match off the card to tell that story, then so be it. And that's fair enough for posterity: but we're thinking about times that part-timers screwed with the main roster, not with the fans. This definitely qualifies, as the four men and four women played the match out in full on free television the next night as a lame duck consolation prize. Hopefully they still got the payday.