10 Fascinating WWE WrestleMania 4 Facts
4. Sensational Sherri Was Peggy Sue
This one's a bit more well-known, but still a tad perplexing. To flesh out The Honky Tonk Man's gimmick of an Elvis wannabe even more, WWE costumed Sherri (the Women's Champion, mind you) as his girlfriend, Peggy Sue. Sherri dressed in a blonde wig and dark sunglasses that did a decent job of concealing her identity, to go along with a rockabilly skirt and throwback bobby socks. WrestleMania 4 was Sherri's most high-profile appearance with the gimmick, seconding Honky along with Jimmy Hart.
The Women's division of the time was so dead that playing Peggy Sue was virtually the best way to get Sherri on TV. Imagine if Charlotte wore a wig and sunglasses that hid who she was, and she managed someone like Kevin Owens under another name, when everyone knows who Charlotte is.
Oddly enough, Randy Savage did pull the Peggy Sue wig off of Sherri at events prior to WrestleMania, so it's not like it was a big mystery. Still, by WrestleMania, the announcers were pretending that Peggy Sue and Sherri were separate people, apparently.