9 Wrestlers Whose Last WWE Match Came At WrestleMania

8. Brutus Beefcake - WrestleMania IX

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A lot of success in professional wrestling can be put down to who you know, and there can't be many clearer cases of this than the tale of Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake. His career was entirely reliant on the success and wishes of Hulk Hogan, with the making their debuts together in the late 1970s. Beefcake was actually billed as Dizzy Hogan at one point. 

A major parasailing accident in 1990 put Beefcake out of action for two years. Over 100 metal plates were needed to reconstruct Beefcake's face, and regardless of your opinion on talent vs. success no one deserves such a fate. This injury was eventually used to bring both Beefcake and Hogan back to TV, as tag team champions Money Inc. tried to re-injure Beefcake.

This led to Jimmy Hart turning face and Beefcake and Hogan getting a tag title shot at WrestleMania IX. They were billed as the Mega-Maniacs, and Beefcake wore a protective face mask throughout. The two would lose the match via disqualification, although Hogan would end the night as WWF Champion once more. 

Beefcake wouldn't feature on WWF/E television again.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.