50 Must-See WrestleMania Matches

34. Bret “Hitman” Hart Vs. Yokozuna – WrestleMania 9

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No, you’re not experiencing déjà vu. This match really was the main event for back-to-back WrestleManias. File this one under the “trainwreck” category. As a match itself, Bret Hart vs. Yokozuna was terrible, with Yoko winning the WWF Championship after Mr. Fuji blinded Hart with salt. But it was the after-match shenanigans that make this a match you can’t miss.

Hulk Hogan came down to protest on Hart’s behalf that Yokozuna and Mr. Fuji cheated to win. Instead, Fuji immediately challenged Hogan to a title match on the spot, which Hulk won in under a minute. That debacle was the beginning of the end for Hogan in WWF (for about nine years) and was a slap in Hart’s face as he stood on the sidelines as his title went from him to Yokozuna to Hogan in the span of five minutes.

Watch this one to see WWF going back to the Hogan well one last time with disastrous results.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.