7 WWE Superstars You Forgot Headlined SummerSlam
How did these guys sneak into the main event of the second biggest show of the year?!
In just over a month, WWE will present the 29th annual SummerSlam live from Brooklyn's Barclays Center.
While this year's main event has yet to be determined, the previous years' worth of SummerSlam headliners reads like a who's who of professional wrestling legends.
As recent as The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar to as far back as Hulk Hogan, Randy Savage, Ted DiBiase and Andre The Giant, there's no shortage of current and future WWE Hall Of Famers that have headlined the second biggest show of the year.
But not all of the show-closing matches contained future Hall of Famers. In fact, some of SummerSlam's main event matches featured WWE superstars that would never again even sniff the main event.
In some cases, these individuals were in the right place at the right time and lucked into a headlining spot, while others were thought to be future main eventers being given their first opportunity.
Regardless of the reason behind their inclusion, the following 7 WWE
superstars main evented WWE's most important show of the Summer and you've
likely forgotten about it.
7. Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake & Zeus (SummerSlam 1989)
Hulk Hogan & Randy Savage vs. Ted DiBiase & Andre The Giant at the inaugural SummerSlam was a main event anywhere in the country. The second annual SummerSlam was a different story.
The 1989 edition again featured Hogan and Savage, but now on opposite sides. Hulk joined real-life friend Brutus "The Barber" Beefcake while Savage enlisted the No Holds Barred actor-turned-temporary-wrestler Tiny Lister, introduced to World Wrestling Federation fans as The Human Wrecking Machine Zeus.
After the release of Titan Sports and New Line Cinema's No Holds Barred, Lister was brought into the promotion as a wrestler by Vince McMahon as a hopeful way to boost his disaster of a film, and to give Hogan another giant to slay.
Zeus was impressive to look at, but his in-ring skill was non-existent and he had to be carried through the SummerSlam match by Savage and Hogan.
Rumors have circulated that Zeus was in line to main event WrestleMania VI against Hogan, but after the motion picture bombed as well as the one-off December '89 PPV of No Holds Barred The Match / The Movie, Zeus was quickly removed from WWE television, paving the way for a much more memorable WrestleMania VI main event.
The Barber's brush with the main event didn't last long either. After SummerSlam '89, Brutus would move back to the mid-card, working The Twin Towers followed by The Genius and Mr. Perfect.