5 WWE matches advertised for pay-per-views that did not happen

#3 Bray Wyatt vs Randy Orton (Backlash 2016)

This was advertised until the pre-show.

After Randy Orton's head got viciously busted open by Brock Lesnar, he was not cleared to compete for weeks. This was something that WWE either did not know or failed to address. The Viper had begun a feud with Bray Wyatt during the initial stretch of SmackDown going live, with a match being booked for Backlash. It was a match and a feud that was intriguing and exciting at the same time before it got run into the ground.

The company had predicted that Orton would be cleared by the pay-per-view, three weeks after his destruction at SummerSlam. However, that would not be the case and WWE had to come up with something to replace this ready-made match. After a backstage beatdown on Orton's leg at Backlash, Wyatt marched to the ring and awaited a new opponent for the night. Enter Kane. Great, everyone thought, this would be a big win for the Eater of Worlds over a veteran and he would gain some much-needed momentum. Right? Wrong.

The following No Holds Barred match was fine, aside from the finish. Randy Orton came out, selling the "leg injury", and distracted Wyatt before he hit him with an RKO, gifting the win to the Monster. It did not make much sense for a rising star like Wyatt to get pinned by Kane, who was on his way out of WWE by this point.