10 Wrestling Matches That Were Controversially CANCELLED
9. Goldberg Vs Roman Reigns (WWE WrestleMania 36)
The graphic above may as well be a farewell to 'The Big Dog' as much as a monument to a lost WrestleMania match.
Roman Reigns was certain to dethrone Bill Goldberg for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 36, but instead the ‘Tribal Chief’ took a decision that made him more of a locker room leader than any blue piece of leather ever could have done - he went home.
2020’s ‘Show Of Shows’ was the first major wrestling event to be impacted by the onset of lockdowns enforced by a new and terrifying global pandemic. Electing to run the event from their makeshift Performance Center television studio, Vince McMahon - knowing about as little as anybody else did in those early days - forged ahead, and nearly every major talent gingerly obliged. Reigns wasn’t as easily convinced.
With newborns at home, fresh memories of the relatively time he’d taken away to battle leukaemia, and a clearer head than many, the Number One contender glanced at the bigger picture and thought better of it.
Braun Strowman was instead inserted as an eleventh hour replacement, and Reigns wasn’t seen again until a SummerSlam return that proved transformative for his entire career.