10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1998
6. The Honky Tonk Man
1998 was only a decade removed from Honky Tonk Man's legendary defeat at the hands of the Ultimate Warrior at the inaugural SummerSlam, but WWE as a company was virtually unrecognisable from the bombastic '80s heyday.
Philosophically and aesthetically, the company had undergone a seismic transformation over the ten year spell, and the its marketable version of counter-culture was rooted to the policy of powering forward rather than ever looking back.
When performers from bygone days did appear, they were usually castrated or castigated at the expense of the raft of new stars the organisation was trying to position as pop culture icons, which made it all the more surprising when Honky Tonk earned a lengthy stint in the 1998 Royal Rumble match centred mostly around Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock.
Lasting longer than 'The Rattlesnake' himself, Honky was eventually eliminated by Vader after making up the numbers in the match for just under 20 minutes. It would be another three years before he'd wrestle again for the company, showing up in 2001's 30-man war to take a shot to the head with his own guitar by a record-setting Kane.