10 WWE Plans in 2017 which couldn't go through
There’s this old saying that appears to be constantly repeated: ‘anything can happen in the WWE’. Though this phrase is often used to try and give the company an air of unpredictability, the opposite rings true, more often than not.
Unless you’re one of Vince McMahon’s handpicked chosen few, you’re left to your own devices when it comes to a push or when trying to get some kind of long-term booking in place for yourself. So really, WWE isn’t a place where anything can happen, especially since long-term planning doesn’t appear to be a company-wide philosophy.
Although Vince does deserve some credit for at least having a rough sketch for his plans for WrestleMania 34 in place months ago, there are still far too many gaps in long-term planning for the majority of the roster for him to show that he actually does plan things through carefully.
One need only look at what were widely reported plans for WWE in 2017 to see that things can change on a time, any not always for the better.
The ten situations listed below are those plans that were initially penciled in to take place in WWE in 2017, but were cancelled for one reason or another. Out of these ten situations, only one of them had a better outcome than what was initially booked to happen, and that was because forces outside Vince McMahon’s control behooved him to book things on the fly.
10: Big Cass's singles push
From the very beginning, it was clear that Vince saw big things in Big Cass. He had the obvious look and size, wasn’t too bad of a worker compared to other men of his stature, and despite Enzo being the superior talker of the two of them, Cass could still speak quite well.
He clearly had the word ‘superstar’ written all over him, and the start of a strong singles push began when he turned on, and eventually defeated, former partner Enzo Amore.
Sadly, this push was completely derailed when Cass suffered a catastrophic knee injury on RAW that sidelined him for up to nine months. Not only has he missed the entire remainder of 2017 since his injury, but there’s a good chance that he won’t be able to return in time for WrestleMania.
WWE’s bookers must’ve certainly been devastated by this injury, as there must’ve been obvious and pre-determined plans to push Cass to the moon as a new giant on the main roster.