11 WWE WrestleMania Headliners Who Didn't Make The Following SummerSlam

11. Hulk Hogan & Sid Justice - WrestleMania VIII

With the beauty of hindsight, we can see that WrestleMania VIII marked the beginning of a new era for the World Wrestling Federation. The show featured many of the stars we had all known and loved in the late 80s, but they were quite clearly at the end of their glory days.

Jake Roberts, Roddy Piper, Randy Savage and Ric Flair were all done in-ring for the WWF before the next WrestleMania.

The eighth instalment of the Show of Shows was headlined by a grudge match between Hulk Hogan and Sid Justice, and it would go on to mark the first time that a WrestleMania headliner failed to feature on the SummerSlam that followed it. Not only that, neither man would make it to the summer extravaganza, which took place that year in Wembley Stadium in the UK.

Hogan went on an extended hiatus following his DQ win over Justice in the main event, and didn't return to the company until February 1993 to kick-start his brief feud alongside Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake against Money, Inc. Hogan also appeared in the main event of WrestleMania IX (kind of), and was out of the company before SummerSlam that year too.

As for Sid Justice, he entered a program after Mania against the Ultimate Warrior, but he simply wasn't catching on. The program barely got started and, less than a month after 'Mania, Justice had left the company.