10 Oldest Wrestlers To Ever Compete At WWE SummerSlam
5. General Adnan
Very few wrestlers have a life story that can match Adnan Al-Kaissie's.
Born in the Kingdom of Iraq in 1939, Adnan came from a wealthy family and was school friends with a certain Saddam Hussein. After moving to America to pursue a wrestling career, Adnan returned to Iraq under Hussein's orders to bring pro wrestling to the country. He even had a match with Andre The Giant in Baghdad, beating him over a decade before Hulk Hogan did.
Adnan was brought into the WWF to manage Sgt. Slaughter during his Iraqi sympathiser phase. He was at ringside for Slaughter's WrestleMania main event against Hogan and would have his own main event when he teamed up with The Sarge and Colonel Mustafa at SummerSlam 1991. As the third member of "The Triangle of Terror", General Adnan did battle with Hogan and The Ultimate Warrior at the whopping age of 52 years 5 months and 25 days.
This makes Adnan the oldest person in history to main event SummerSlam. It may not have been a five-star classic, but Sheik and Adnan's involvement in the main event of SummerSlam 1991 makes it one for the history books.