10 WWE Wrestlers From The 1990s You Completely Forgot About: Where Are They Now?

For WWE, the 1990s were a period of many changes for North America’s biggest wrestling promotion. The early ‘90s saw the winding down of the Golden Era and the departure of Hulk Hogan, the mid-’90s was the New Generation Era that saw WWE struggle to build new stars, and the Attitude Era saw WWE embrace an edgier product that proved to be successful beyond anybody’s expectations.

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That’s an entire decade of huge changes, which also means an entire decade of wrestlers coming and going. While every fan has their favorites, there are also loads of WWE stars that fans have totally forgotten about. Let’s take a look at 10 of them and see what they’re up to these days.

10 Man Mountain Rock

Heavy metal wrestler Maxx Payne found some success teaming with Cactus Jack in WCW but ended up in WWE in 1995. There, he became Man Mountain Rock, still working a rock star persona albeit an even more forgettable one.

He was released after about eight months and in the years since, he’s attempted to release a documentary consisting of footage he shot backstage during his WWE run, sued Rockstar Games over the video game Max Payne, and still appears on podcasts to talk about his wrestling days, especially when it comes to his dislike of The Nasty Boys.

9 Zip

Wrestling fans of the 1990s certainly remember Sunny and Skip of The Bodydonnas (a.k.a. Chris Candido), but they may have forgotten about Skip’s cousin and tag team partner, Zip. Better known to die-hard fans as Dr. Tom Prichard, Zip went on to train new recruits as part of WWE’s first developmental program, with some of his trainees including The Rock, Mark Henry, and Kurt Angle.

His career as a trainer led to him running WWE’s later developmental territory, Florida Championship Wrestling, and Prichard now runs the Jacobs-Prichard Wrestling Academy, which he co-founded with Glenn Jacobs, better known as Kane.

8 Hakushi

Over the years, WWE had boasted a number of Japanese stars on its roster, but fans may have forgotten about Hakushi, who was another brief part of the New Generation Era. Adorned in kanji, Hakushi was a slightly supernatural take on the foreign heel, and put on some forgotten gems of matches with Bret Hart and 1-2-3 Kid.

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After leaving WWE in 1996, Hakushi returned to Japan, where he wrestles to this day as Jinsei Shinzaki. Shinzaki still occasionally rolls out the Hakushi persona, most recently for Keiji Mutoh’s final match as the Great Muta.

7 Tiger Ali Singh

The son of wrestler Tiger Jeet Singh, Tiger Ali Singh fared much worse than his legendary father. Part of WWE’s Attitude Era, the young Singh portrayed the typical arrogant rich guy in the vein of Ted DiBiase and later Alberto Del Rio, complete with his own servant, Babu.

Unfortunately, one concussion too many forced him to retire in 2002. While he’s made a couple of returns to the ring, Singh’s more recently focused on charity, co-founding the Tiger Jeet Singh Foundation with his father.

6 Essa Rios

During his time with WWE, the luchador Mr. Águila wrestled under a number of ring names, from Mr. Águila to simply Águila to Papi Chulo and finally Essa Rios. If fans remember this former Light Heavyweight Champion at all, it’s probably due to his romance angle with Lita.

Since leaving WWE in 2001, the former Essa Rios has not only returned to Mexico but has also returned to his Mr. Águila moniker. After runs in AAA and CMLL, he’s most often seen on the Mexican indies these days, though he has made occasional one-off returns to AAA.

5 Dan Severn

Already a force to be reckoned with in early MMA, Dan “The Beast” Severn ventured into pro wrestling in 1991 — two years before the UFC even started — and enjoyed an impressive 1,479-day reign with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship. In 1998, Severn arrived in WWE as part of the forgotten NWA invasion angle and failed to gain much traction from there.

While he still wrestles occasionally — including taking on Matt Riddle at the first-ever Joey Janela’s Spring Break — Severn also teaches seminars on various aspects of legitimate wrestling.

4 Meat

Arguably WWE’s first female faction, the unfortunately named Pretty Mean Sisters was a trio of jilted women out for retribution. As part of their act, they had their own personal love slave named Meat, otherwise known as Shawn Stasiak, son of former WWE champion Stan Stasiak.

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After two stints with WWE and a run with WCW in between, Stasiak retired from wrestling after leaving WWE in 2002. From there, Shawn Stasiak embarked on a new career path, becoming a chiropractor and a motivational speaker.

3 Damien Demento

The pre-Attitude Era 1990s was pretty much WWE throwing every gimmick wrestler imaginable at the wall and seeing what stuck. For the most part, very few of them stuck, resulting in loads of forgotten characters like Damien Demento, who was a deranged weirdo billed from “The Outer Reaches of Your Mind” but whose finisher was just a boring knee drop.

Demento — real name Phillip Theis — mostly retired from wrestling in 1994 and has since pursued a different passion: art. Fans can see Theis regularly post his art on Facebook and Instagram, some of which are portraits of his pro wrestling contemporaries.

2 The Goon

One New Generation gimmick that honestly should have had more legs was that of The Goon, a hockey player who was deemed too violent for the sport of hockey, so he ventured into wrestling himself.

Portrayed by journeyman “Wild” Bill Irwin — who pitched the character himself and had a legit background in hockey— The Goon only lasted about eight months in WWE, though Irwin’s in-ring career lasted from 1977 to 2014. Living in Duluth, Minnesota, Irwin remains active in the wrestling world via signings, guest appearances, and podcast interviews.

1 Marc Mero

The height of Marc Mero’s in-ring career was arguably his time in WCW as underrated midcarder Johnny B. Badd. Upon arriving in WWE in 1996, Mero fared even worse, with his run mostly amounting to being overshadowed by his wife at the time, Sable, before leaving the company in 1999.

Mero retired from competition in 2006 and has since worked at giving back into the world. In addition to being a motivational speaker, Marc Mero also founded a nonprofit called Champion of Choices, which encourages children to make good life choices.