10 WWE Stars You Totally Don’t Remember Appearing At WrestleMania
6. Corporal Kirchner
Still a safe bet for a cheap pop in the simpler times of 1986, Corporal Kirchner was a flag-waving military man in the absence of Sgt Slaughter after Vince McMahon discovered that the real life Mike Kirchner had a background in the army before giving professional wrestling a try.
Appearing on the Chicago portion of the WrestleMania 2 card, the Corporal faced his natural foe Nikolai Volkoff, defeating the Russian in a Flag Match whilst Cold War fear could still easily be sold to the wrestling audience.
Though over with live crowds, there was little wiggle room for the character beyond the Volkoff rivalry, and as that fizzled, so did Kirchner's run.
Failing a drugs test in 1987, he elected to leave the company at the end of the mandatory suspension he received, but would go on to achieve considerable fame in Japan, working with a 'Leatherface' persona ripped wholesale from the frightening lead villain in the 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' movie.
A hardcore wrestling sensation for the W*ING, IWA and FMW promotions, he spent nearly twenty years delighting audiences with the character until his eventual 2004 retirement.