10 Totally Soul-Crushing WWE Title Changes
1. Yokozuna Vs Hulk Hogan (WrestleMania 9)
Burying both main event talents having already dominated the middle of the broadcast his own, pre-arranged, title match, Hulk Hogan played an absolute blinder in his utter decimation of WWE's topline following his controversial early-1993 return to the company.
Slotted into best friend Brutus Beefcake's rivalry with Money Inc, it was a pleasingly understated spot Hogan would occupy at April's WrestleMania 9, especially as new WWE Champion and company figurehead Bret Hart required space away from the old guard to flourish against top new heel Yokozuna in their titanic clash.
'The Hulkster' had other plans. Falling short of tag title glory via disqualification, Hogan made a nuisance of himself following the screwy finish to the title match that saw Yoko rob Hart thanks to Mr Fuji throwing salt in the champion's eyes.
Idiotically challenging the comparatively fresh Hogan on behalf of his sumo behemoth, Fuji's mouth wrote a check his new champion couldn't cash. Hulk left 'The Hitman' to blindly stagger to the back, hit the ring and won his fifth WWE Title in just 22 seconds.
Other than the Vegas car park attendees drunk on nostalgia, just about everybody suffered from the decision. That included Vince McMahon, who lost a visual champion for two months thanks to Hogan's external commitments keeping him off television outside of one return at June's King Of The Ring. There, he dropped it right back to Yokozuna and departed the company for good.