Ultimate Warrior In WWE: How It Started, How It Ended

Owen Hart works his backside off bumping for Warrior and somehow getting a serviceable match from the 10 minutes they're allotted, but the whole thing's undermined by a presentation fully preparing for a life without the former WWE Champion.

The camera cuts to Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson preparing to announce a replacement partner in a match that was set to include Warrior. Lawler's gags are centred around who the mystery man could be, while McMahon tries to put over how focused Warrior is despite the distraction of his impending suspension.

There's also no finish to speak of. Hart is beat before the Camp Cornette troops are sent in for the cheap finish. Vader and the British Bulldog (eventually) triple team him and leave him laying, as if the write-off had been thought about before the real life falling out.

What might have looked like the New Generation kicking the past out of the company as Yokozuna had to Hulk Hogan in 1993 felt cheapened by the bizarre reality unfolding behind the fiction. Just as his exits were in 1991, 1992 and in WCW in 1998, it wasn't even really an ending for the character, but a pause that somebody forgot to press play on.

If absolutely nothing else, for persona consumed by chaos, it was quite fitting that this particular ending was consistent with all the rest.