10 WWE Wrestlers In Danger Of Missing Out On WrestleMania 41

Nobody on WWE Raw, SmackDown or NXT wants to miss WrestleMania 41.

Those on the mainline shows have a much better chance of snagging a spot on the bumper weekender than their developmental counterparts, of course, but the likes of Roxanne Perez did herself no harm with a stunning performance in the women's Royal Rumble. Will that be enough to grace 'Mania itself? Only time will tell, but in-ring time on the 'Show Of Shows' comes at a premium.

Triple H has enough main roster regulars to sift through and make decisions on anyway. There are way more Raw and SmackDown stalwarts than you might think who are currently teetering on the brink of missing the biggest show(s) of 2025. Privately, 'The Game' may apologise and say he'll make it up to them later in the year, but the fact is that WWE can't squeeze absolutely everyone onto April's spectacular.

The company once made a habit of running several useless multi-wrestler matches just so stragglers would get some sort of payday. That's a lovely gesture, but it comes at the cost of diluting the event as a whole. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that several unlucky WWE names will need to sit on the bench and watch their buddies live it up.

Obviously, there's time for things to change here. At time of writing, creative still has approx two full months of TV to fill before reaching Las Vegas and formatting the full card for WrestleMania 41. That's a lifetime in the wrestling biz, but things don't look good for this band of famous faces right now.

Will all of these workers really miss 'Mania?!

Every single one of The Wyatt Sicks traded red team for blue by jumping from Raw to SmackDown during WWE's rather unpredictable Transfer Window. This feels like a change for the sake of change and not because the writing staff have something big in mind for Uncle Howdy, Nikki Cross, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy and Dexter Lumis. They shouldn't be outright worried just yet, but it looks like creative has slowed its roll on Bray Wyatt tributes.

That was always going to happen. The Sicks burst onto the scene with an emotional wave crashing behind them last year, but they failed to really do much of value on Monday nights after a hot opening few weeks. Thus far, Howdy and pals haven't made a splash on SmackDown either. Again, as stated in the intro, there's plenty of time for that to change before WrestleMania 41. 

What's the big sell though? Howdy vs. The Miz? That hardly sounds like it'll push anything else off the bill on the April weekender. If anything, it sounds like the kind of match that'd be stuck in midcard obscurity on free TV. Gacy and Lumis aren't in the tag-team picture either, and Cross hasn't been bothering any of the Women's Titles (even the newer ones).

This could be a year in the skyboxes for The Wyatts whilst WWE figures out what it plans to do with them as a group on Fridays. Don't be shocked if Unc and gang get a spooky vignette or two in between matches and that's all. It's difficult to see them cracking onto the main card in Vegas.