10 Perfect So-Bad-They’re-Good Wrestling Moments
5. I'm Starting With The Warrior In The Mirror
When the Warrior returned to WCW, it was perceived as a desperate measure to fire a return shot at the WWF. The reality was even more desperate. Hogan wanted his WrestleMania VI win back - even though it was the, ahem, ultimate pyrrhic victory. Hogan did everything in his political power to make Warrior look like a second-rate replacement.
That debut promo does not warrant inclusion here. It was so bad it's bad - a tedious and incoherent mess. Warrior assumed the controls of the plane and sent the angle into a nosedive, Ho Kogan - but the inferno was at least a spectacularly hot mess of carny bullsh*t.
The Warrior engaged in psychological warfare throughout their brief programme, the high/lowlight of which saw him materialise in a mirror and taunt Hogan. The problem - other than Warrior materialising in a mirror - was that Hogan was portrayed as insane, even though the audience could also see him. Eric Bischoff, the supposed straight man in this farce, was the only one who didn't. The whole thing was so hilariously backwards that only severe whiplash ruins the experience.
What's even funnier is how godd*mn tone deaf the whole thing was in comparison to what was going down in the WWF. Up north, Stone Cold Steve Austin was tearing it up in his ongoing feud with Vince McMahon, who had so many fresh megastars on his hands that he was weeks from turning The Rock heel because he had the luxury of holding off his face run in the midst of a battle for supremacy.
And there was WCW, cycling back to the lame cartoonish era that the WWF had abandoned entirely in order to compete with WCW. Make sense of that.