10 WWE Careers That Flatlined After WrestleMania

5. King Kong Bundy - WrestleMania 2

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To be honest, for a monster heel, the only way is down once you've main evented a WrestleMania with Hulk Hogan.

For King Kong Bundy, he was never going to top the steel cage match which closed out WrestleMania 2. This was at a time when it was all about bringing in oversized heels to put Hogan in peril, only for the Hulkster to eventually overcome the odds and get the big win over these brutes on the big stage.

Bundy was one of many to be put in this position, and he was one of many who was quickly moved back down the card, or even out of the company, once Hulk had got his win.

As for how his career dropped after WrestleMania 2, Bundy was placed in a tag team with with John Studd, before the following year's 'Mania had the giant team with midget wrestlers Little Tokyo and Lord Littlebrook.

Bundy would depart the then-WWF in 1988 and enter semi-retirement, although the New Jersey native would be brought back to the company in 1994 as part of Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation. And in revisiting the formula that worked so well for Hulkamania, Bundy would become another giant for the Undertaker to topple, losing to the Deadman at WrestleMania XI.

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