10 Awful WWE Match Finishes That Ruined Everything

Casual fans really bought into this finish to the Hulk Hogan and Yokozuna match for the WWF championship at 1993’s outdoor extravaganza. Smart fans… not so much, as going into Wrestlemania 9, Bret Hart was the holder of the big belt.

Scuttlebutt (like gossip going into business for itself) says that Hulk Hogan agreed to work a tag team match with Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake against Money Inc. in the midcard as long as he’d walk out of Wrestlemania the WWF champion. He’d heard that Hart would be dropping the title to Yokozuna in the main event, and queried with McMahon whether the fans in attendance wouldn’t crap all over the heel leaving with the WWF championship.

So after a short, nondescript match, Hart lay down for Yokozuna, Mr Fuji’s cheating salt stinging his eyes. Stumbling out of the ring, Hart was greeted by his old buddy the Hulkster (looking delightfully lean without performance enhancing drugs to inflate his physique), who’d come to ‘check he was okay’. At this point, Yokozuna challenged American hero Hogan to a WWF championship match… immediately.

The ‘match’ lasted 22 seconds before Hogan landed the big boot and pinned the new champion to become the new new champion. The kids and families in attendance loved it: evil foreign devil Yokozuna had received his comeuppance early! Pretty much everyone else saw Hogan shoving his way back into the top of the card again at the expense of gifted younger talent, rolled their eyes and wrote a furious letter to their congressman.

Further scuttlebutt (like gossip on steroids but lying about it on Arsenio) speculated that the Hulkster wouldn’t be dropping the title back to Hart at Summerslam when he left WWF again. Hogan didn’t believe that the two of them together would look believable together due to the size difference, and had already flat out refused. In the end, he dropped the title back to Yokozuna, who then lost to Hart.