10 WrestleMania Myths WWE Fans Still Believe

9. It Was A Different Ultimate Warrior (WrestleMania VIII)

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As punishment for standing up to Vince McMahon over his SummerSlam '91 payoff, The Ultimate Warrior was banished to his plush home in Parts Unknown (Arizona) and told never to return to Stamford. At WrestleMania VIII, the man who saved an imperilled Hulk Hogan from the skull-clutching hands of Papa Shango was not the man who'd beat the Hulkster just two years prior at WrestleMania VI.

Or so the rumours persisted for the next decade.

With a government-mandated leaner physique and a pretty bob, fans were convinced that the man under the paint had redefined his predecessor as The Penultimate Warrior. The rumours were strengthened when three years later, WCW heavily intimated an 'Ultimate' surprise of their own, only to unveil The Renegade - a very obvious, actual impostor.

When Warrior made another (brief) WWE comeback in 1996 - whilst Renegade was still on the books in Atlanta - most people twigged it wasn't a case of meiosis. There'd only been one Warrior; he'd just happened to visit Brutus Beefcake.

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