8 Disturbing WWE Raw Moments You Totally Don't Remember

8. There Can Be Only One (24 July 1995)

In summer 1995, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart was involved in a fairly meaningless but exciting feud with Japanese superstar Jinsei Shinzaki, known in the WWF as Hakushi. Hakushi was years ahead of his time in the WWF of 1994 and 1995, incorporating lucha libre moves and aerial techniques into his heavyweight wrestling arsenal. Meanwhile, Bret Hart was legitimately one of the finest wrestlers in the world during this period.

The result was in-ring magic, especially given Hakushi's theatrical style, sporting Buddhist shakyo sigils inked across his face and torso and accompanied to the ring by a solemn, eerily-whitefaced cultist Shinja. Here, though, is where things went from cool to creepy as all f*ck: Hakushi was presented with a sack, from which he produced a model of a familiar human head: one with long, dark curly hair, wearing a very recognisable pair of sunglasses.

Was it a threat, a promise, or some intimidating symbolism? Whatever the case, it was nasty as hell, and for those of us used to something a little more pedestrian from our wrestling in the early to mid nineties, it felt almost revolutionary. Only The Undertaker was doing anything remotely similar, and it would take the arrival of the Attitude Era for the WWF to catch up with what Jinsei Shinzaki was doing years earlier.