15 Wrestling Nightmares Somehow WORSE Than Imagined

What happens when it comes crashing down and it hurts inside? That's a valid question philosophers will ponder for an age, but they needn't look much further than WCW's Halloween Havoc 1998. Hulk Hogan was in full nWo Hollywood mode by that stage, but he was running out of credible babyface opponents who could run against the New World Order of wrestling, brother.

So, Eric Bischoff went out and brought The Ultimate Warrior to Atlanta. Except, well...he wasn't Ultimate anymore. No, Warrior was plain old Warrior, and he could apparently appear in mirrors or vanish into a cloud of smoke. Who knew that he'd learned to become a magician after leaving the WWF in 1996? Was there anything the guy couldn't do?! 

Wrestle passable WCW pay-per-view matches, it seems.

Warrior vs. Hogan was supposed to be a sequel to WrestleMania VI's classic at the turn of the decade. Eight years and change on, these former foes had zero chance of topping what happened in Toronto. Arguably the worst thing about their scrap is that it went longer than formatted, which meant live PPV feeds cut off during the follow-up DDP vs. Goldberg main event.

So, somehow, Warrior was ruining other people's matches as well as his own. He was never all that consistent inside the ring over in McMahon land, but this was the pits, and it'd go down in history as one of the worst WCW bouts ever. Those concerned that it'd bomb before ordering the event but did so anyway must've thought they'd flushed money down the toilet once they clapped eyes on the penultimate match here.