10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1998
8. The Sultan
As a final holdover from the New Generation era during a tumultuous and transitional 1997, The Sultan was a character out of time amongst emerging talents such as Steve Austin and The Rock, as well as the edgier re-imaginings of company stalwarts Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, and The Undertaker.
It was rough luck for the man behind the mask, as Solofa Fatu Jr had worked gamely as a Headshrinker and singles star during some lean years for the organisation. Remarkably, his sizeable weight gain would contribute to his reinvention as unlikely Attitude Era success story Rikishi following a 1999 repackaging, but the failed The Sultan persona only had a minor job to do in 1998.
Or more specifically, three.
Seeing out the remainder of his dates for the company, Fatu would stare at the lights through his mask in matches against Flash Funk and Ken Shamrock in January. Cut loose before he could even make it into the Royal Rumble match later that month, he worked constantly on the independent scene in all his various guises before WWE came calling again in October 1999.