Former WWE writer Kevin Eck recently revealed how close the WWE was to having a special guest wrestler for 2014’s Summerslam. In a recent blog, Eck stated that Justin Bieber wanted to come in and wrestle teaming with John Cena and the Big Show to face off against the Wyatt Family.
Via Eck blog,
The proposed match was discussed among the booking team (which I was on) about five months before SummerSlam, but a deal with Bieber never came to fruition. I’m not sure how close it was to actually happening. My concern at the time was that Cena teaming up with Bieber — who was making headlines for all the wrong reasons and most definitely would have been booed unmercifully by the WWE audience — would not have done Cena, the face of the company, any favors. To address that concern, the creative suggestion was that Cena would become increasingly annoyed by Bieber in the weeks leading up to the match, but Big Show, who would be portrayed as Bieber’s friend, would repeatedly play peacemaker.
Can you imagine Justin Bieber in a WWE ring? That audience surely would not have taken kindly to him so maybe it’s a good thing it never happened.