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4. SummerSlam 1990 – Texas Tornado

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Poor Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake. He always seemed like a guy in the late 80s and early 90s who hovered right around the upper midcard, but never was able to capture a singles title.

He looked like he was finally in a position to seriously challenge for the Intercontinental Championship at SummerSlam in 1990 against Mr. Perfect, but life intervened. A parasailing accident legitimately broke his face, knocking him out of action for months and forcing a change to the PPV card.

Enter the Texas Tornado, also known as Kerry Von Erich. Tornado would defeat Perfect and capture the Intercontinental Championship, his lone title in WWF. Beefcake missed out on his feud against Perfect over the IC title, but Tornado was in the right place at the right time.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.