10 Wrestling Moments EVERYONE Expected To Happen (That Never Did)

Nothing quite beats the feeling of being joyously stunned by an out-of-nowhere wrestling occurrence that genuinely leaves your jaw smacking off the floor in disbelief.

Yet, the sensation of finally being delivered a match or moment you'd been expecting for an age does admittedly come pretty darn close; if said visual involves two absolute icons coming face-to-face in the middle of the ring or an epic debut that seemingly made all the sense in the world, that is.

In the case of the following bouts and happenings that at one time felt like undoubted, nailed-on events, though, all of the Twitter noise and pieces being in the right places in the world still couldn't make these dreams a seemingly inevitable a reality.

Admittedly, what popped up in place of these hotly anticipated developments was often just as entertaining if not ever more compelling than what fans had been banking on seeing for some time. But in other cases, the failure to deliver what fans were passionately hoping for did the unfortunate alternative little favours in the end.

So, from silly bookers writing a check that their show simply couldn't cash, to once-in-a-lifetime showdowns being stupidly overlooked in favour of another WCW burial on WWE TV, these are those should-have-been wrestling certainties that turned out to be anything but.

Had this match actually gone down back in 2014, there's a solid chance that a full-blown riot would've broken out inside of the Superdome, it must be said.

Jump back a decade or so ago, though, and the idea of Triple H colliding with both of his Evolution protégés in the middle of the squared-circle over the World Heavyweight Championship felt like a showdown that was actually as intriguing as it was inevitable.

Both Randy Orton and Batista had risen to the level of main eventer by the time WrestleMania 21 was done with. And while throwing The Legend Killer into The Animal and The Game's Road to WrestleMania storyline would've probably overshadowed Big Dave's own individual rise a touch, the fact all three men remained in the company for years without ever colliding in a triple-threat environment feels like a simply mind-boggling missed opportunity.

Even if the stars couldn't properly align for a Show of Shows three-way - with added Ric Flair "woo-ing" around at ringside like a mad man - there likely wasn't too much stopping the company from forging a simple story that would've involved the three long-time top-of-the-card talents revisiting their storied histories together in the lead-up to another PPV.

Why this guaranteed money-maker never did come to pass while all three were in their primes remains a mystery...