WWE Stars At Risk Of Missing WrestleMania 42 - WrestleChop Podcast

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WrestleMania 42 is getting closer, but not every WWE Superstar is guaranteed a spot on the biggest stage of them all. In this video I break down the shocking possibility that fan favorites could be left off the WrestleMania card.

Could LA Knight really miss WrestleMania? What about rising stars like Carmelo Hayes or Iyo Sky? And where do stars like Solo Sikoa, Chelsea Green, Damian Priest, and Raquel Rodriguez fit as the road to WrestleMania continues?

WrestleMania cards are limited, and every year talented WWE Superstars get squeezed out of the biggest show of the year. Let’s talk about the wrestlers who might be at risk of missing WrestleMania and why WWE needs to find a place for them before it’s too late.


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WrestleMania's coming.

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It's coming. It's coming.

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WrestleMania 42 is mere weeks away. And even though it is a rumored 16-card lineup, I don't think that these wrestlers that I'm gonna mention today on this list, they're gonna make it. I think they're gonna be stuck in catering and it's gonna be borderline criminals. Some of the names on this list are shocking. Oh, and full disclosure, I am stealing this idea from Simon Miller. I did not watch the video, but I did see a thumbnail with this basic subject. So yeah, these are all my ideas except for the basic concept. Let's start off with the former million-dollar champion, LA Knight. Yeah! More like LA Knight, nope, not gonna be on the card. Right now he's feuding with the vision, but the vision is only two people. What is wrong with you? Do you have any idea what we have done for this business? And they're literally feuding with four people the Usos, LA Knight, and Seth freaking Rollins. Even if we have Brock Lesnar go after Seth Rollins, well, LA Knight's still the odd man out. He's still the odd man out. Okay, maybe Braun Breaker, maybe he returns in time. Fine. Well, what about Brock Lesnar's open challenge? Feels like Oba Femi would be the guy to answer that open challenge because Oba Femi is the guy that's been answering open challenges as of late. So LA Knight just seems like he has nothing going on with them other than a feud with a faction that doesn't have enough members for him to feud with. It's like, oh my gosh, please don't do this. Are we just gonna let him win the Andre the Giant Battle Royal? I remember when they let, I remember when they let Bobby Lashley win the Andre the Giant Battle Royale. And I'm like, why isn't this guy on the card? I think they're gonna do that with LA Knight. And like, my gosh, we know that Triple H doesn't like the guy. But yeah, Triple H just does not like the former million dollar champion. But if you like the million dollar championship, you can win it. You see, at 20,000 subscribers, I'm gonna give away a belt, and you get to choose what belt you want. If it's bent on my shoulder, you can win it. All you gotta do is be a subscriber and comment below. The comments is how I'm gonna pick a winner, but you gotta be a subscriber, and then you can win. This is not a toy, people, it's a replica. All right, so who else? Raquel is ticked off! Raquel can be as ticked off as she wants. This one pains me, but I'm thinking Raquel Rodriguez. I was really hoping for Raquel versus Liv Morgan at WrestleMania for the women's championship, but Raquel has lost matchup after matchup after matchup, and it looks like she's gonna be regulated to the bodyguard, the muscle of Liv Morgan. So, I mean, she'll make an appearance and get a payday, but I wanted her in a matchup right here. She's the most improved wrestler of 2025, and she's doing great work in 2026, and yet I don't think there's nothing for her. Oh my god! Next up, Damian Priest. I see this one as very unfortunate. Not because I'm a Damian Priest fan. In fact, I'm really not. I mean, I don't hate the guy, I'm just kind of indifferent towards the guy. But but if you look at the last couple of years that Damian Priest has, they have pushed him and pushed him and pushed him. And if he does not get on the WrestleMania card, I feel it's almost for naught. Like last year, he got a feud with with Drew McIntyre after Drew McIntyre's stellar feud with CM Punk. And the year before that, right now, maybe he beat Drew McIntyre for the championship. It's like we've done so much work for this guy, and now look at where he's at. He just won a number one contender's match with R Truth for the tag team title. But honestly, I don't even think that matchup will be on the WrestleMania card. At best, it'll be on the SmackDown before WrestleMania. So for Damian Priest to miss WrestleMania is kind of like why did we push him so hard if we just were gonna let him just get to this point where he's such an afterthought that he doesn't even make WrestleMania 42? The people that he's gonna be fighting for said tag team belt is Solo, Sokoa, and the MFTs. Solo has never had a WrestleMania match. For as long as he's been in WWE, he's never had one WrestleMania match thus far. And yeah, I think the streak unfortunately continues. At best, at best, he gets he's going to defend the tag titles before WrestleMania. I mean, the dude's in a feud for a lantern right now that's been going on since John Cena was fighting Logan Paul in Paris. That's how long the Wyatt's and Solo MFT feud has been going on. It's like that's not gonna get a WrestleMania matchup at this point. So it's like, what does Solo do? He has nothing really. He has nothing going on that that gets him on the card, which sucks. Which sucks. Here's one that sucks Chelsea Green. For whatever reason, WWE just does not see her really as a main event person. As Michael P. S. Hayes said in the Unreal documentary, they see her as a person to put over people who they see as main event players.

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I don't regret what I said because her role it is to help make other people.

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Therefore, why would they waste a WrestleMania spot with Chelsea Green? Now, I think that sucks because I definitely believe that Chelsea could hold it down with the top championship. And yet, and yet, now I do know, I do know that she is injured, but I let's say, let's pretend she wasn't. Let's pretend she wasn't because maybe she could be healed in time. I still don't think they would give her the matchup. She was US champion last year, I believe, and they didn't give her a spot on the card. So why would they suddenly do it this year? Yeah, it's it's very unfortunate. Now, I will also say though, when it comes to injuries, I'm not gonna put them on the list. Braunbreaker, Bronson Reed, Bianca Belair, uh Seamus, definitely people who could deserve a spot on the WrestleMania card, but it's not creative's fault that they're not there. It's literally injuries' fault. But that said, Chelsea Green, I think whether she was injured or she wasn't, if she's healed in time or not, they they wouldn't put her on the card. The next two I'm gonna put on this list is actually two people who I think should actually fight each other at WrestleMania. And yet I think WWE's just not gonna do it. The Miz. I see The Miz as a former WrestleMania main inventor, uh a company man, a guy who will do anything for WWE, and I think WWE will take advantage of that and say, tell you what, Miz, why don't you do a lot of promotion for us and then not be on the card? If The Miz is lucky, he'll be the WrestleMania. They just don't really care about the Miz that much to give him any kind of marquee spots. But the person I think that he should be fighting is the other person on the list, and that's Danhausen. Dan Housen is taking WWE by storm with his curse and everything, and people are just loving this dude, loving this dude, and yet I think I think WWE will give him a segment, but I don't think they're gonna give him an actual matchup. They should do Miz versus Danhausen at WrestleMania, make it a little funny, and and usually I'm not all about the funny matches, but but I mean think about it. Didn't uh Sami Zayn and what was that guy, Steve O, they had a funny matchup a couple years back, and that was a brilliant WrestleMania match. Give Miz and Danhausen eight minutes. I think that would be brilliant. But no, no, I think both of them left off the card. Just like I think Julia's gonna be left off the card. Maybe, maybe at best, Julia can hope for a tag team match in some kind of like ladder match, TLC match. That's the best she can hope for. But I think WWE has really fumbled Julia on the main roster, and I just don't think they're gonna give it to her. In fact, it looks like they're starting to position Keanu James, her manager, to kind of like overshadow her. And I'm a little worried. I don't know why we can't just push them both at the same time. Oh no, two strong people in a in a duo? Heaven forbid. I mean, yeah, I mean, it worked for EO Sky and and Rhea Rhea Ripley, but like why can't we do it for Julia and Keanu James? Honestly, both of them. I just don't think both of them will be on the card at all. Even though she's the US champion currently, remember Evolution? She was the women's US champion back then as well. And she wasn't she wasn't defending her title, she was just in the battle royal. So yeah, they're not they're not gonna give Julia anything here. And since we brought up EOSky, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, yeah, Eo's not gonna be here either. And and Eo and and Julia would be a great matchup. That would be a great matchup, but it's probably just gonna be a smackdown match before or after. I could see it. You know what? Honestly, it's probably gonna be after WrestleMania. That way, Ria beats Rhea beats Jay Cargill, right? And then EO beats Julia, and they both have titles, yay, for whatever they call themselves. What? Rio, Rio, or something like that. And yeah, no, EO definitely should be on the card. She's one of the most popular wrestlers, and yet they they really treat her as an afterthought. She's regulated to Rhea Ripley's sidekick, and this is not me bashing on Rhea Ripley, but I am saying EOSky deserves way more than that. Now we go to Rusev. Honestly, I can't see Rusev getting on the card. His best shot was a feud with Obafemi. This is the start of the fight that you described. And they just gave away that match for like what three minutes, a three to four minute matchup on Raw. And it wasn't even that wasn't even that compelling. It was more of a showcase of Oba Femi than nothing. So I just for whatever reason, they don't see Rusev as the guy anymore. And another guy who jumped from AEW back to back to WWE is Aleister Black. What are we gonna do with that guy? What are we gonna do with that guy? He he was feuding with Randy Orton, but now Randy's back in the uh Randy's in the the main event. So like Aleister Black really has nothing to do. He was kind of flirting with Sami Zayn last week, but I think Sammy versus Trick Williams is the matchup they're gonna do. So Black really has nothing, he has nothing to do, and that's uh that's interesting. Like it's just so weird, so weird. We have like six hours of TV every week, and yet we have so little story for so many people. And finally, I'm thinking Carmelo Hayes is not gonna be on the WrestleMania card. I think it should be Carmelo versus Trick Williams. Honestly, have Trick beat Carmelo Hayes in a US title open challenge and then have the rematch at WrestleMania when Trick closes the US challenge. But no, no. I think Trick versus Sammy, like I said, therefore, what does Carmelo do? These these US Open Challenges matches have never been on a PLE, they just have them on SmackDown. So I just don't see them putting Carmelo on the on the main main show, which sucks because there are multiple people for Carmelo to actually engage in a match with Trick Williams, The Miz, Ilya Dragonoff. There's another guy who's probably gonna be left off the card. It's like Melo should definitely be at WrestleMania. He's been on the main roster for like two or three years now, and I feel like come on, can we can we not throw the guy a bone? Can we not put him on the matchup? He he has the US championship, he's been doing a great job with it. Give him a storyline, get him on the card. It's like, come on. Or at least do an impromptu then. Do an impromptu. If you if you if you just can't write a story for the guy, have him have him just show up and say, you know what? The open the open challenge is now open on WrestleMania. And yet they're not gonna do it. They're not gonna do it. Carmelo Hayes is once again gonna just like not be on the card. There you go, boys and girls. Let me know in the comments below who you think should be on the card and is gonna be left off the card. I understand, I understand that not everybody can can be at the WrestleMania card, but like, yeah, some people LA Knight, Carmelo Hayes, you're telling me Chelsea Green, they don't like they should definitely be on the card, right? Am I right or am I wrong? Let me know. Comments below. See ya bye.