8 Unfairly Maligned Wrestlers From The Monday Night Wars
4. Big Boss Man
Big Boss Man will forever be etched in wrestling infamy for his disastrous WWE Championship feud with The Big Show in the winter of 1999. From crashing his father’s funeral and driving off with the casket, to intimidating Show’s mother into admitting he is, and I quote,"a big nasty bastard, and your momma said so,’' to cooking Al Snow’s dog and tricking him into eating it just a few months prior, the Boss Man morphed into a part-Shakespearean, part-cartoon uber-villain. It was all, quite frankly, a bit ridiculous.
However, a season of terrible booking should not detract from an impressive career. He was, after all, the only active performer to be featured in a prominent role by Vince McMahon at both the height of Hulkamania and the peak of Steve Austin, bridging one generation to another and underlining his diversity; from the cartoon world of the eighties, Boss Man never felt out of place in the edgy, adult oriented Attitude Era.
A tremendous big man performer, Boss Man’s versatility allowed him to transition from monster heel battling Hulk Hogan to fiery babyface against the likes of Ted DiBiase and Vader. His 1994 feud with Vader remains one of the greatest series of matches between two men of such size in US wrestling history.