10 WWE WrestleMania Moments That Meant NOTHING In Hindsight
9. The Big (?) Man Is Back!
WrestleMania VIII's calamitous conclusion had already generated something fans couldn't quite believe when Sid was forced to kick out of Hulk Hogan's legdrop, but they were again left rubbing their eyes after properly digesting the shrivelled frame of a once 'Ultimate' Warrior.
Triggering years of conspiracy theories about Jim Hellwig's death decades before his actual prophetic charge off this mortal coil, the shorter-haired and substantially less vascular lunatic charged the ring with all the usual force but didn't remotely stack up to memories of the...stacked psychopath that had ran all the way off television at the climax of SummerSlam 1991's 'Match Made In Hell' months earlier.
Warrior was running haircut-first into the snake pit Hogan was more than ready to depart. Smaller than an already-decreasing 'Hulkster' and already-failed-a-drug-test-before-the-show Sid, Warrior's body represented the immediate future of the organisation even if his mind didn't. He wanted back on top in the worst way, despite baulking at the prospect of taking the title with a heel turn at Randy Savage's expense that August. He'd gotten larger by then too, shortly before exiting again alongside fellow inflate-a-wrestler Davey Boy Smith amidst extremely transparent charges.