10 Wrestling Legends' Biggest Crimes Against Fashion

8. The Ultimate Warrior

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During the Ultimate Warrior's 1990 WWE Title run, the company attempted to humanise the mysterious maniac by elongating his barmy promos into something resembling a set of actual sentences and experimenting with his look beyond his traditional paint-and-tassels ensemble.

As they'd discover, it wouldn't quite launch him into the stratosphere owned solely by Hulk Hogan, but long after his title defeat, they were stuck with their awkwardly positioned new Warrior.

His appearance on the reformatted Prime Time Wrestling espoused everything that wasn't working about the gimmick at the time, not least of all his airbrushed Ultimate Warrior dungarees and half-finished face paint.

Looking astonishingly daft, he barely gets a word in anyway, as Vince McMahon spends most of his interview time putting over The Undertaker's fierce attack. It was abundantly clear that his WWE future was about to become as unreliable as his dress sense.

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