10 Wrestlers Who Didn't Turn Up For WrestleMania
6. Nathan Jones - WrestleMania 19
This entry is slightly more literal.
JBL is fond of repeating, ad nauseam, that if you were to "build a WWE superstar from the ground up, he'd look like Randy Orton." Vince McMahon would disagree. He would have all 7 feet and 350 muscled pounds of Nathan Jones at the forefront of his frothing, daydreaming mind.
Nathan Jones was cast as protege to the Undertaker in spring of 2003. As green as a tropical tree frog, he was scheduled to participate in a tag team match alongside him, opposite The Big Show and A-Train, at WrestleMania XIX. The tag match was booked to conceal Jones' shortcomings. Almost comically uncoordinated, and as unconvincing as even Giant Gonzalez and The Great Khali, WWE called an audible shortly before 'Mania and removed him from the card altogether.
He was attacked in the storyline to excuse him from duties, but in reality, the antipodean behemoth was nowhere near an acceptable level of ring readiness. Dispatched shortly thereafter to Ohio Valley Wrestling to learn, effectively, from scratch, Jones also failed to turn up for the remainder of his contract.
He left WWE in December of that year, citing the rigours of travel.