10 Returning WWE Icons That Couldn't Live Up To Their Legend

7. The Ultimate Warrior (1996)

Reinforcing the Roberts' example, star-power was limited in early-1996. While Roberts struggled to get through matches with Tatanka, main eventers Scott Hall and Kevin Nash had signed off on shiny-new WCW contracts. Desperate, Vince McMahon swallowed his pride and, with the help of wife Linda, brought Warrior back into the fold. It'd been over three years since his last WWE match, and he'd had only wrestled sporadically since. Embarrassingly-bad matches with Goldust and Jerry Lawler followed, and Warrior's simplistic style was clashing with the flavors of the time, like ECW's mayhem, WCW's cruiserweight movement, and a WWE with Michaels and Bret Hart on top. While Warrior was a far better performer than many gave him credit for, he had been out of practice by his short-lived WWE return.