Forgotten SummerSlam match WWE never aired starred wrestler who later quit and filed a lawsuit

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Some WWE stars have their SummerSlam moments seen by millions worldwide – others shine in front of a far smaller audience.For every example of The British Bulldog winning the Intercontinental title in front of 80,000 at Wembley Stadium and a global audience of millions at the summer spectacle, there’s another of a lesser light.Not all SummerSlam moments are as epic as the 1992 instalment at WembleyWWEOne case in point is Bryan Clark, a staple part of WWE in the mid 1990s and a WCW star during the Monday Night Wars at the end of the decade.Before either company, Clark cut an imposing figure on the independent scene. Standing well over six feet tall and tipping the scales near 300lbs, he broke in as The Nightstalker, a snarling powerhouse who wore black face paint and wielded a giant plastic axe.He worked briefly for WCW in 1990 and made appearances in Smoky Mountain Wrestling and the USWA. Even in those early years, he stood out.Clark joined WWE in 1993, rebranded as Adam Bomb – a post-apocalyptic mutation with glowing contact lenses and a red tongue, supposedly a product of the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster.The presentation was striking. He had a manager in Johnny Polo – later Raven – and briefly enjoyed top billing on syndicated shows like Superstars and made appearances at WWE pay-per-views, including WrestleMania X in New York.A hugely impressive and physically imposing figure, Clark had all the tools necessary to be a major player.It’s a sad tale, then, that WWE never really followed through with the delivery and storyline push that his presentation deserved.He was on the card for SummerSlam in 1994, for example – an event that featured Bret Hart meeting brother Owen in a steel cage match for the WWE title.23,000 packed into the United Center in Chicago to watch it and, courtesy of pay-per-view at the time and its preservation on social media since, millions around the world have seen it.Clark’s appearance, however, is nowhere to be seen in 2025, and wasn’t seen anywhere on the night, either, save for the crowd that was busy taking its seats on that sultry summer evening.Adam Bomb was a classic staple of the cartoon-style era of early-to-mid 1990s WWEWWEAs Adam Bomb, Clark wrestled over 300 timesWWEHe wrestled and won a dark match against Kwang, the star later repackaged into Attitude Era stardom as Savio Vega. A dark match is a bout seen only by the live crowd and, back in the day, never shown on screen. It has also never been released since.That’s as big as SummerSlam got for Clark, despite his immense look and real promise. His only subsequent major WWE pay-per-view appearance came at the following January’s Royal Rumble, his star power beginning to wane.Behind the scenes, Clark believed his career was being derailed by broken promises. Chief among them was a planned run with the Intercontinental Championship that, he says, never materialised.Speaking in 2014, he told The Hannibal TV: “The IC belt was discussed… it never happened. That was one of the reasons I left. It just wasn’t going where it was supposed to go.”Clark walked away in 1995, those frustrations only building. He later added: “With Vince [McMahon]… it’s like sitting outside of the principal’s door waiting to go in and see him for a couple of minutes; so I didn’t like it at all.“That’s why… I left New York because of him lying to me and all the b*******. I was working 280-290 days out of the year; our money was going down.”SummerSlam 1994 featured a questionable main eventWWEClark (right) spent the later years of his career came as half of the tag team KronikWWEThe big man found new life in WCW, returning as Wrath and later forming the tag team KroniK with Bryan Adams. The pair won the WCW World Tag Team Championships twice and were briefly brought back into WWE in 2001, where they had a short-lived rivalry with Kane and The Undertaker.Just two years further on he wrestled for the final time, again as part of the KroniK team, falling to defeat in Japan to the tandem Keiji Muto and Goldberg – the latter himself having just endured a controversial WWE retirement.Clark’s name later hit the headlines again for different reasons. In 2016, he joined a class action lawsuit against WWE, alleging that the company had failed to properly inform performers of the risks of long-term brain trauma.He was one of over 50 former wrestlers named in the suit, which was eventually dismissed by a US district judge in 2018.The former grappler, now 61, faced criminal charges of his own in 2020, but charges in Arizona, including conspiracy, drug possession, and weapons offences, were dismissed the following year. As a former US Air Force veteran, Clark’s storied life and career has belied that forgotten night in 1994.The main event of that SummerSlam in question is largely considered the worst in the show’s storied history, two Undertakers clobbering each other in front of a hushed crowd.Millions saw that and might wish they hadn’t. Clark’s effort, though, is remembered only by a select few.