10 Wrestlers You Didn’t Realise Wrestled For WWE In 1999
4. Paul Bearer
Shawn Michaels was a man out of time in 1999, first turning babyface from an ill-suited run as a heel Commissioner in late-1998, before rabble rousing as an anti-McMahon authority figure for the rest of the year amongst the repeatedly-shifting alignments of Vince and Shane. He turned again that summer to aid Triple H in victory over The Rock, but then disappeared from television for nearly a full year to largely renege upon the switch.
A May 1999 sh*t-stirring session by 'HBK' came at a time when Shane McMahon had formed the Corporate Ministry heel group alongside The Undertaker, forcing Shawn to rebook an entire edition of Monday Night Raw around favouring the beleaguered babyfaces.
To that end, he booked Paul Bearer in a match against The Big Show, sarcastically referring to the rotund manager as the 'tenth, eleventh and twelfth Wonder of the World' as Bearer comically collapsed in fear on stage.
Frogmarched to the ring by Michaels himself, Bearer crawled around in fear from the giant, before taking a huge boot and an elbow drop. Typical of of the era, The Corporate Ministry and The Union ran in as the one-sided beating went to a non-finish.