10 Least Over Wrestlers To Ever Headline WWE WrestleMania
6. King Kong Bundy (WrestleMania II)
Some epics have fantastic sequels: The Dark Knight, The Godfather Part II, Wrestle Kingdom II (seriously, that Japan vs. USA angle was way better than it had any right to be). Sadly, WrestleMania II was not one of them.
Vince 'Don't Call Me Junior' McMahon had taken his father's company to new and exciting heights the year prior with the first WrestleMania. Determined to up the ante, the genius behind that time Dean Ambrose beat up a Seth Rollins mannequin decided to split the show across three venues. The results were... interesting.
Only the LA show had a main event even vaguely worth featuring in a top spot. Hulk Hogan, the biggest star the industry had ever seen, put his WWF Championship up for grabs against King Kong Bundy. Yes, that's right, despite Terry Funk, Andre The Giant, Jake Roberts and Roddy Piper featuring on the shows that night, the most Wilson Fisk-looking wrestler of all time got the rub.
While Bundy was suitably big and menacing for the role of Hogan's monster of the week, he lacked the intensity and crowd connection to really work in the lead villain role. The match itself lived solely off Hogan's almost-supernatural mastery of crowd control. The action was poor and the psychology predictably rooted in the typical Hogan comeback archetype.
Bundy fell way down the card shortly thereafter without a peep of disapproval from audiences.