8 Horrible WWE Returns That Absolutely Nobody Asked For
1. The Ultimate Warrior (1996)
The fact that Warrior worked his way back into Vince McMahon's good books on several different occasions, after all the daft things he'd said and done, is proof that you can never say never in professional wrestling, even when you definitely should.
The wrestler formerly known as Jim Hellwig was let go as part of a steroid crackdown in 1992. He was originally supposed to return and re-capture the WWE Championship, but as an admitted PED user, this wasn't going to work. Thus, with Vince McMahon under heavy federal scrutiny, the Chairman had to cut him loose, with Warrior no-showing a series of events in the lead-up.
WWE brought him back from four years of semi-retirement in 1996, but the industry had long since moved on from characters of Warrior's ilk. So although he returned to a pretty thunderous pop, Warrior's nostalgia act soon wore off, and his old baggage reared its head on his very first night back. Him squashing Triple H at 'Mania 12 was funny, but he was so uncooperative that it spawned a years-long grudge with 'The Game,' and soon, Warrior had fallen afoul of Vince again too.
The run ended when - surprise, surprise - Warrior was binned for missing house show dates, having lied about his father's death as an alibi.