Ultimate Warrior's 11 Losses - From Cleanest To Screwiest

1. Vs. Hulk Hogan - WCW Halloween Havoc 1998

Angry Ultimate Warrior
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Hulk Hogan didn't have a decent grasp on that which was hot, and that which was not.

In the Dungeon of Doom, he reached out to touch some water, expecting it to be hot. It was in fact "not hot," which begs the question: did...did Hogan want to scold his hand? He didn't say "It isn't nice and warm". He said "It's not hot".

On the beach, he once lathered his daughter's a*se cheeks with tanning lotion. This is an area, unlike the shoulder blades for example, that a person can reach themselves. That's not hot, Hulk.

And, at WCW Halloween Havoc 1998, he botched the living sh*t out of the climactic fireball spot. "Ah! It's hot!" he seemed to say, as if taken by surprise.

This is facetious, but forgive the preamble because 180-250 words are not being spent on an atrocity that slowly grunted well beyond the so-bad-it's-good mark. Where Steve Austin was fighting around arenas in incendiary brawls, Hogan and the Warrior worked tests of strength spots in a lazy and shoddy parody of 1980s wrestling.

A measure of Pat Patterson's layout genius if literally nothing else, Hogan got his win back, brother.

Clean rating: Like skipping a shower in a BritWres locker room.

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