5 WWE dream matches that didn’t happen (and the reasons why)

#4 Hulk Hogan vs John Cena

Hulk Hogan and John Cena

In 2009, John Cena main evented WrestleMania alongside The Big Show and Edge for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. He won the match and became a champion. However, it seems like he wasn’t supposed to be with Big Show and Edge in the first place. Instead, WWE had plans for Cena vs Hulk Hogan at the Grandest Stage of Them All.

Hogan could have main evented the pay-per-view but he had surgery a few weeks before the event could take place, which also eliminated the chances of him slugging it out against WWE’s former franchise player, John Cena.

“You know what, I was supposed to wrestle John Cena for the title, and about four weeks ago I had back surgery. Vince and I were talking about how much involvement I wanted to have in WrestleMania, and if I wanted to keep wrestling, and out of nowhere my back just got really crazy.

I went in for an MRI and I had to have some emergency surgery that threw me out of the game. I was kind of flipped out about it, I thought I’d be the main event this year.” (Credits for the quotes)