10 things you didn't know about WWE SummerSlam

#10 A 'Dark Knight' star headlined SummerSlam

Almost everyone would be aware of the Dark Knight trilogy that Christopher Nolan directed.It was a revolutionary piece of series which redefined the way we saw Batman and one thing that most of the wrestling fans aren’t aware of is that one of the actors in the second movie in the series actually main evented SummerSlam.

Tom Lister, who played a short yet integral part in the movie, was a professional wrestler alongside being in the films. In order to promote his movie “No Holds Barred” (which was financed by WWE), Lister joined WWE and was named Zeus.

He was pushed as a monster heel and went on to main event SummerSlam in a tag team match in which he had Randy Savage as his partner, and their opponents, none other than Hulk Hogan and Brutus Beefcake. Speaking of Brutus Beefcake…
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