8 Great WWE Stars With Bad WrestleMania Resumes
5. Mr. Perfect
Curt Henning had a not-quite-perfect WrestleMania record of 1-3. His solitary WrestleMania victory came over Owen Hart, working under a mask as the Blue Blazer, at WrestleMania V. The match itself was nothing special, which isn't surprising considering they were only given five minutes to work with (and Blazer was basically an enhancement talent).
Had the match have been Owen Hart versus Mr. Perfect in, say, 1993. Well, now that could have been something. A year after the Blazer match, Perfect tangled with Brutus Beefcake. It was in this match that Perfect's winning streak finally came to an end, much to the delight of the 67,000 in the Toronto Skydome. As a match, it was nothing special.
Fast forward a year and Perfect would have a better WrestleMania showing, against Big Boss Man. Unfortunately, the cheap DQ finish soured it somewhat. All logic dictated that Boss Man would cleanly defeat Perfect for the Intercontinental Championship but wrestling and logic don't always mix, do they? Not a classic, but a good effort from both anyway.
Effort is exactly what was lacking in Perfect's lazy scrap with Lex Luger at WrestleMania IX, an event widely regarded as one if, if not the, worst WrestleMania ever. The match really should have been quite decent, but the two guys just never clicked. Luger has since come out and said that Perfect had an off-night and forgot the match they had planned. I forgot the match you guys wrestled, too, Lex.
And that was the late, great Curt Hennig's last televised WrestleMania match (he worked a six-man tag on the WrestleMania X8 pre-show in 2002 during his all-too-brief WWE comeback).