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8. Mr Perfect Smashes It With A Hammer

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Between 1988 and 1990, Mr Perfect did everything but win the WWE Championship.

Having executed his vast array of perfect sporting skills in some very fondly remembered vignettes, Perfect went on an unbeaten streak befitting of his name and would later claim the Intercontinental Championship while becoming the crown jewel of The Heenan Family.

Before that though, he famously took out his rage on a belt he wasn't quite able to snare.

Smashing up the cherished WWE Championship following Hulk Hogan's Saturday Night's Main Event clash with The Genius was an inspired way to try and get in 'The Hulkster's head, and developed a new life nearly a decade later when Vince McMahon presented Mankind with the Hardcore Championship.

The urban legend was eventually debunked - the broken up Winged Eagle design patronisingly offered to 'Mrs Foley's Baby Boy' was not the carefully-kept version Curt Hennig battered with a hammer, but it was certainly nice to think of the dillegence needed to keep such a thing in the first place.

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