10 Wrestling Moments Everyone Misunderstood As Kids

10. Why Doesn't The Ultimate Warrior Look Like The Ultimate Warrior Anymore?

At WrestleMania VIII, the Ultimate Warrior returned, looking lean and mean, and came to the defence of Hulk Hogan, threatened as he was by the, erm, orbit of voodoo priest Papa Shango.

That wasn't good enough for a young audience drawn to the WWF and its preposterously muscled living superheroes. Why didn't Warrior's biceps look like balloons anymore? This new Warrior had also treated himself to a shorter haircut, which, because kids are also a bit stupid, let's face it, meant he must have died. That's a bigger leap than Shane McMahon ever managed.

WrestleMania VIII became the wellspring of a pervasive urban myth. It spread like wildfire through playgrounds across the western world. The WWF tried to pull a fast one, the kids said, and he didn't last long in the WWF thereafter because we were all wise to the con (and not because Warrior was suspiciously closer to his old self in the months that followed).

We all thought the old Warrior had been replaced by a new guy but yeah, no, he was renewing his steroid cycle.

How innocent we were.