15 Biggest BURIALS Wrestlers Never Recovered From
2. Bam Bam Bigelow (By Diesel & Shawn Michaels)
There wasn't much about 1995 WWE that was good for your health, wealth or happiness if you were a wrestler on the road for the company back then, but just about the worst for all of the above was getting on the wrong side of The Kliq.
Such was the case for Bam Bam Bigelow, who was ostensibly on the safer side of the creative divide when he turned face on Ted Dibiase's Million Dollar Corporation after a defeat to Lawrence Taylor in the main event of that year's WrestleMania. In storyline, he had brought shame upon the group by losing to a former NFL star, but in reality, he was now fresh off a headline spot that he'd performed excellently in, and was about to be linked on screen with WWE Champion Diesel to complete the reset.
'Big Daddy Cool' and his best friend Shawn Michaels had other plans, and they set about making them at Bam Bam's expense. 'HBK' turned face the night after that very same 'Show Of Shows', with Diesel booked to rescue him from a mauling at the hands of new top heel Sid. In Shawn's kayfabe injury absence, Bigelow was the natural new bestie for the WWE Champion, but within precisely one show of Shawn's return, Bam Bam was facilitator of the 'Dudes With Attitudes' formal reunification. On the May 22nd 1995 Monday Night Raw, the deal was done, and Bigelow may as well have walked from the promotion there and then rater than sticking around for six more ego-bruising months.
How badly that all served him behind the scenes came out via multiple accounts after he left the company, but it came as little shock. He looked daft enough playing third wheel to their knowingly exclusionary antics when the red light was on.