10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1999
1. Bubba The Love Sponge
Long before he'd briefly become one of the most despised figures in professional wrestling thanks to a nepotistic run in TNA, Bubba The Love Sponge was a Howard Stern-lite sideshow attraction WWE could turn to during shows in the Tampa, Florida area.
The shock-jock was a popular figure across Florida in 1999 by virtue of his morning drive slot on commercial station WXTB 98 Rock, and fit the mould as a rebellious and silly sidekick for Pat Patterson and Gerald Brisco during their run as babyfaces in May that year.
Interfering in a comedy bout pitting 'The Stooges' against Shane McMahon's Mean Street Posse, Bubba's involvement in the match was designed to inject local flavour into the Tampa house show, but became the first sequence of a two-part angle when the company returned to the building in December.
At the winter TV taping, Gerald Brisco and Bubba had a brief match for the live crowd only, which went to a draw when the Posse interfered. The contest became an impromptu tag which ended when the DJ hit a Vader Bomb onto Pete Gas for the victory.