10 WWE Stars You Totally Don’t Remember Appearing At WrestleMania

4. Matt Bourne

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Doing his most famous work as one of wrestling's most infamous characters, Matt Bourne was outstanding at WrestleMania 9 as 'Doink', joining up with an evil doppelgänger to defeat Crush after the pair brutally assaulted the Hawaiian with a loaded prosthetic arm.

But whilst everybody remembers the clown, few recall his more dignified run under his own name as a proficient technical wrestler that earned a spot on the very first 'Show of Shows'.

Bumping around for the dynamic Ricky Steamboat, Bourne was an outstanding opponent to give 'The Dragon' several shining minutes on the inaugural WrestleMania in a short but satisfying clash.

Spending another year with the organisation before leaving for World Class Championship Wrestling in 1986, Bourne would lose his last WWF match to the aforementioned George Wells shortly after Wells' WrestleMania 2 defeat.

Following a disappointing early-90s run as 'Big Josh' in WCW, Bourne would embrace the nuances of the heel Doink character upon his WWE comeback, turning in a phenomenal display as the evil clown before a drug-related firing right around the time the character turned face in late-1993.

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