10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Turn Up For WrestleMania
1. Brock Lesnar - WrestleMania 32
Many half-expected Dean Ambrose Vs. Brock Lesnar to steal the show at WrestleMania 32.
Ambrose was a substitution for Bray Wyatt. That match was set up, as per tradition, at the Royal Rumble - but the reaction to Ambrose's performance opposite Lesnar, in the Fastlane Triple Threat main event with Roman Reigns, put paid to it. Ambrose, it was felt, had done more to earn the stature-enhancing match. Ambrose was a lunatic with no regard for his own safety. Lesnar was a sadist with no regard for Ambrose's safety. The match was a tantalising promise of drama and brutality, one with scope for a heroic breakthrough performance of Steve Austin-at-WrestleMania-13 proportions.
That promise did not deliver.
The chemistry the two men shared at Fastlane was curiously missing. Ambrose was game, diving and bumping like a mad man, but Lesnar just went through his usual motions. His famed intensity wasn't there. It later transpired that Lesnar had agreed a unique UFC deal, and had one lazy eye pointed in the direction of the octagon.
It is an indictment of Lesnar's latter day performances that few noticed anything was amiss at the time.