10 Wrestlers That Bombed Twice

3. Ultimate Warrior

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Some may argue that the Ultimate Warrior's solitary run as WWF Champion was a dud, with the chase very much being more exciting than the catch for the Parts Unknown native. After toppling Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI to take the company's top prize, Warrior's subsequent TV matches saw him decimating talents he'd already decimated, including a rehashing of his Rick Rude rivalry from the year prior, and the politically-savvy shadow of Hulkamania was also never too far away.

Still, it's tough to properly poo-poo this initial WWE run, even if you take into account the post-SummerSlam '91 suspension/resignation, the return at WrestleMania VIII, and the post-SummerSlam '92 drug test failure and exit that caused.

What were totally farcical, though, were Warrior's extremely brief WWF 1996 run and his not-quite-as-brief-but-still-super-short WCW 1998 run.

Amidst plentiful hype, that '96 return saw the Ultimate One show up to dominate Hunter Hearst Helmsley at WrestleMania XII. Baseball caps, comic book promotion, and promos that were now more preachy than just outright uninterpretable, Warrior felt out of place from the moment he appeared on Raw the week after 'Mania.

Just six matches and barely three months later, Warrior was fired after no-showing several house shows.

Skipping ahead to 1998, the real-life Jim Hellwig had a dreadful six-month run in WCW that's best remembered for spooky sh*t and a god-awful rematch with Hulk Hogan at that year's Halloween Havoc.

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