10 Great Matches When Wrestlers Stopped Giving A Damn

7. Ultimate Warrior Vs. Hunter Hearst Helmsley - WrestleMania XII

Ultimate Warrior Triple H WrestleMania 12
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Hindsight ruins everything, especially pro wrestling. The immediate vacuum in which a match takes place is broken down, dissected and evaluated to the point of numbness. The irony of making such a claim on the internet is not lost, don’t you worry, but it can be a bone of immense frustration at times. Professional wrestling is supposed to be enjoyed at the moment, after all.

The ‘match’ between Ultimate Warrior and Triple H (then Hunter Hearst Helmsley) at WrestleMania XII is often held up as one of the worst (or most pointless) in the history of the Grandaddy of Them All. Warrior demolished Hunter in all of 99 seconds, no-selling a Pedigree in the process, and the match has gone down in history as one of the most famous squashes of all time.

The story goes that Triple H tried to discuss the match with the returning Warrior, but the face-painted maniac was having none of it. He wasn’t going to be doing anything more than obliterating HHH. A recipe for disaster it may have been, but it is important to remember that Warrior’s big return was one of the biggest selling points of WrestleMania XII, and him squashing Hunter in no time was exactly what the crowd wanted to see. Warrior’s return was all the more effective for it.

Does it stand the test of time? No, of course not, but that isn’t the point. Warrior wasn’t interested in a ‘good’ match, but a two-minute squash just so happened to be all that anyone wanted from the man.

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