10 Times Unlikely Wrestlers Stole The Show

5. Sable - WWF Fully Loaded 1998

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For fans of a certain age, one particular image is burned onto their retinas.

WWF Fully Loaded 1998 followed a pattern that would become familiar throughout that same year, a year in which the WWF boasted the most star power, but a total Danny of an undercard. Leave it to Sable to provide the night's only real cor blimey moment.

The card plummeted in quality following the creditable Val Venis Vs. Jeff Jarrett opener, as the lumbering Mark Henry and Vader fought like tranquillised behemoths, and the remnants of DOA lived up to their nickname in an unwanted self-fulfilling prophecy. The show wasn't irredeemable - the Dungeon match between Ken Shamrock and Owen Hart was highly creative, and the overlong doubles main event was heated, at least - but Sable stole it, nonetheless, by removing her top in the bikini contest to reveal not a bikini, but two painted hand prints covering her ample pair. It was a shocking moment, even for a company that one month prior had presented a match in which Mankind fell from and through the Hell In A Cell roof.

Jerry Lawler's reaction mirrored that of the teenage boys who had returned to the WWF's - Sable's - bosom, possibly because the man exists in a constant state of literally arrested development.

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