10 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE WrestleMania V

By Michael Hamflett /

8. Absolutely Perfect

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Second generation stars Curt Hennig and Owen Hart donned WWE personas for one of their only ever meetings in 1989. Unfortunately for the youngest of the legendary Calgary family, it was his opponent's McMahon-centric moniker that ensured victory as a virtual guarantee.

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Mr Perfect and The Blue Blazer didn't even have long enough to assemble anything approaching a technical classic, but their artistic use of the 5:38 afforded to them positioned Perfect as one of the organisation's new looming threats, and Blazer as perhaps their most talented ever jobber.

It's genuinely astonishing that it took future 'King Of Harts' as long as it did to ascend not just to the level he eventually reached, but out of the gimmick that ultimately became his most tragic calling card.

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