10 Times Terrible Wrestlers Put On Great Matches

5. Brutus Beefcake (Vs. Randy Savage) - Saturday Night's Main Event 1989

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Randy Savage is another miracle worker, but the work he was doing throughout the numerous Saturday Night's Main Event specials of 1989 really deserves to be revisited. Savage got good matches out of Jim Neidhart and Jimmy Snuka among others that year, with his finest work coming here against one half of his tag team opponents for SummerSlam.

The main event of that show would see Savage team up with Zeus (a man who simply has no decent matches of which to speak) to go up against Hulk Hogan and Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake. Everyone is pretty much in agreement by this point that Beefcake had a long career in mainstream professional wrestling because he was buddies with Hogan, not because of his ability.

To be fair to Beefcake, his character work was always there or thereabouts and his popularity come the summer of 1989 can't really be denied. This is the man who would give Mr. Perfect his first on-screen defeat in WWE, so he was doing something right. This match against Savage is a hard-hitting ten-minute sprint that ends in a predictable non-finish in order to protect the SummerFest main event.

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