10 Wrestlers You Totally Forgot Headlined WWE PPVs

10. Rikishi

In 1999, Rikishi returned to WWE after prior runs as Fatu and The Sultan, and over the course of the next few months, he became a star. Though his prior characters failed to get over, this persona - an obese dancer who liked to rub his behind in his opponents' faces - quickly became a beloved babyface.

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That's how Rikishi spent most of his WWE career, and that's how most fans remember him - but in late 2000, he underwent a heel turn when he admitted that he ran over Stone Cold Steve Austin in order to help advance The Rock's career. That briefly made him a hated villain, but by the next year, the company decided to abandon the plan and revert him to his babyface character.

The heel turn wasn't enough to propel him into the main event... except for on one show. At the Armageddon 2000 PPV, Kurt Angle defended the WWE Championship in a six-man Hell in a Cell match. Though Angle ultimately retained the title in the star-studded bout, Rikishi may have had the most memorable moment of the contest, as Undertaker chokeslammed him off the cage and into the flatbed of a ringside truck.

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