10 Shocking WWE Babyface Burials You Totally Don't Remember

6. Bam Bam Bigelow Is The Kliq's Cheerleader

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When Bam Bam Bigelow did the honours for Lawrence Taylor at WrestleMania XI, he was supposedly promised a fairly sizeable push alongside a babyface turn as a make-good.

He got the former, but that might ultimately have dented the latter. Just one match earlier at the 'Show Of Shows', Shawn Michaels turned himself face too in a mesmerising display against Diesel that saw him leapfrog over Bret Hart as the Number Two hero behind 'Big Daddy Cool'.

All that was left to do was formally reunite the pair, and though Bigelow acted as a facilitator and cheerleader on-screen, the reality was all too evident in the moment during the May 22nd 1995 Monday Night Raw. Was that fire on his gear, or were the flames just what his push had burst into in the moment?

In defence of the Two Dudes With Attitudes here, they did eventually allow Bigelow into their shot for a final pose towards the hard camera, but maybe even that was a shrewd kick in the b*llocks - they had to know how daft Bammer would look trying to strike a pose on the fly next to their iconic high/low aesthetic,

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