12 WWE Superstars Without Direction Following WrestleMania 33

6. The Big Show

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The Big Show has had a strange year.

Announcing last winter that he was looking towards a 2018 retirement, he then shocked the world with gym photos of an incredible physique that belied his 45 years and nearly two decades in the wrestling industry.

Ostensibly preparing for the long-teased WrestleMania showdown with fellow giant Shaquille O'Neill, Show got himself into the best shape he's been in forever in readiness for the as-yet-unconfirmed contest with the NBA legend.

Unnervingly for the former World Champion, it continued to be unconfirmed as weeks ticked by on the run-up to WrestleMania without a formal announcement of the contest.

It never came to be.

Despite teasing the brawl a year earlier with O'Neill's completely unadvertised appearance in WrestleMania 32's Andre The Giant Battle Royal, the two sides couldn't come to terms when it came to formalising something more solid.

Hung out to dry by the collapse, Show was thrown in his fourth consecutive 30-man jobber-fest, and didn't even last that long thanks to an early elimination from Braun Strowman.

It seems wasteful not to make the best of Big Show while he's still there and in such tremendous condition, but both parties may just consider an earlier wind-down in the wake of the WrestleMania failure.

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