10 Most Shocking WWE WrestleMania Role Reversals
9. King Kong Bundy - WrestleMania 2 & III
WWE's booking pattern didn't really call for permanent main event heels in the mid-1980s, but King Kong Bundy's rapid descent following the biggest payday of his career wasn't as apparent until he appeared in front of one of the industry's biggest ever crowds against two of the industry's littlest wrestlers.
In a bloody, blue-bar cage special, Bundy went move-for-big man move with Hulk Hogan at the near-peak of his pomp. Near-peak because that came one year later when 'The Hulkster' went nose-to-nipple with Andre The Giant. WrestleMania III (allegedly) sold 93,173 tickets on the strength of the match, and the crowd was fed an undercard that offered the company's best technical match of the decade featuring Randy Savage and Ricky Steamboat. And last year's main eventer flattening little people.
Bundy's banter battle alongside Lord Littlebrook and Little Tokyo against Hillbilly Jim, Haiti Kid and Little Beaver only went 3:25, but it was long enough to see the indifference splashed across Bundy's face. It was his penultimate WrestleMania appearance - but it was eight long years before his Undertaker match in 1995 erased some memories of this pointless p*ss-about.