10 Wrestlers At Risk Of Missing Out On The WWE WrestleMania 39 Card

1. Bobby Lashley

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Uh oh.

Bobby Lashley beat Omos on last year's WrestleMania 38, and went into the show as WWE Champion the year before that at 37. In 2023, he's flirting with skipping the show completely, and that's true even though he technically beat Brock Lesnar by DQ at Elimination Chamber.

Bray Wyatt challenged the winner of that match, so Bobby should still have hope. Unfortunately for him, it's defo not out of line to say that Brock Lesnar is a much sexier opponent for Bray come 'Mania (assuming, of course, that Brock isn't being moved to the side for a returning Steve Austin; no, YOU stop going on about that!).

Lashley may well find himself on the outside looking in unless he's Bray's next focus. The DQ result does leave him open to "one more" brawl with Lesnar too, but that'd be a tough sell for creative when their Chamber skirmish was already exactly that.

Who else do you think is running the risk of missing out on a WWE WrestleMania payday? For more like this, check out WWE 2K23: 21 Wrestlers Making Their Series Debut and 10 Things You Learn Binge Watching Every WWE Attitude Era Raw!

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