10 Things You Didn't Know About WWE In 1990
10. Ultimate Warrior Wrestled Phil Collins
And for all the marbles!
Yes, it might have been just for another version of the music video for Phil Collins' monster smash hit "Two Hearts", but the two went to war anyway. Included as part of the 1990 television special "But Seriously...Phil Collins", the match takes place as part of the ongoing story within the show about television executives looking for the best way to promote the former Genesis man's big event.
It's agreed that a co-promotion with pro wrestling is smart, and though Warrior hilariously appears to be the executives' second choice after Hulk Hogan, the supposed new flagbearer for the market leader rocks up to sing and dance alongside Collins before knocking him all over the shop in a joke mismatch that forgets the punchline.
It's remarkably wooden considering the conceit - Warrior doesn't project much considering projecting made up most of his act, and Collins' selling was that of Steve-O and Chris Pontius' after taking a beating from Umaga a decade and a half later. But then, he did have a little bit of jackass in him.