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10 Wrestlers KICKED OUT Of WrestleMania Main Events - Shawn Michaels! Chris Jericho! Mankind! Tugboat?!

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🗓️ 11 April 2021

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Injuries and politics that stopped these wrestlers from headlining The Grandest Stage of Them All. Simon Miller presents 10 Wrestlers KICKED OUT Of WrestleMania Main Events...


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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination, not a car in the world, as you simply lean back.

0:17.0

And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.

0:41.0

You ever see a Wrestlemania poster and then get confused when the wrestler featured wasn't actually in the advertised match?

0:46.0

It's because plans change, pal.

0:48.0

This must be pretty bad if you're the person in question on a regular show.

0:52.0

But Wrestlemania, like a kick in the teeth, especially if it's the main event, and yes, that's happened more than once.

0:59.0

Can only imagine the mental healing you need after that, but I'm Simon from WhatCulture, please hit that subscribe button, and this is 10 wrestlers kicked out of Wrestlemania main events.

1:09.0

10 Tugboat at Wrestlemania 7

1:11.0

Yes, you heard me.

1:13.0

We all remember the horrendous build to Wrestlemania 7 where we took the Iraq War and tied it into a storyline that saw Hulk Hogan fighting for America.

1:21.0

We waited Sarge at the slaughter and the main event to win the WWF title, and finally put this battle to bit.

1:26.0

That sounds terrible, but it was the idea.

1:29.0

Before we got to Sarge though, Vince McMahon thought about taking Tugboat and turning him into Sheik Tugboat, and again you heard me right, after he had attacked his best friend and pledged allegiance to the enemy.

1:41.0

Sheik Tugboat, now I have literally heard it all.

1:44.0

It was Bruce Pritchard and Pat Patterson who thought slaughter would be a better pick, so urged the boss to change his mind,

1:49.0

especially as he was already a proven draw.

1:51.0

Pritchard has even talked about this on his podcast, saying that the All American Hero, going evil, was too good to turn down.

1:58.0

Yeah, well, we definitely should have turned this down.

2:01.0

9 Mankind at Wrestlemania 15

2:03.0

Back at Wrestlemania 15, Mankind and the Big Show hit each other with chairs and a very by the numbers Mid-Card match.

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