5 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE WrestleMania XII
3. Orange Squash
A super-tanned Ultimate Warrior brought the 'good' old days back for Vince McMahon for one night at least, popping the sh*t out of the Anaheim crowd for his return crushing of future company overlord Hunter Hearst Helmsley.
The story's been retold over and over again by 'The Game' himself, but Helmsley doing the honours here wouldn't have looked half as damaging had he won King Of The Ring as originally planned. As it was, he was the designated jobber for one of the prior era's biggest stars to have a penultimate WrestleMania moment.
There's a bizarre enjoyment to be had about the man-out-of-time 1996 Ultimate Warrior run, not least because he now had pyro in the shape of his iconic symbol. It's fun to fantasy book Warrior going head-to-head with new headliners Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart, but the difference in their shifts on this very show highlight why it was such a fantasy. 'HBK' and 'The Hitman's 60 minutes were for the discerning, Warrior's 1:39 strictly for the disenfranchised.