Ultimate Warrior's 11 Losses - From Cleanest To Screwiest

8. Vs. Outlaw Ron Bass & One Man Gang - Prime Time Wrestling, April 25 1998

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In a match taped for Prime Time Wrestling worked early in his run, Warrior ate an ultra-rare televised loss. It wasn't clean - he never lost clean once on television - but it was notable enough, since it wasn't as if Ron Bass couldn't have taken the fall.

It didn't harm his meteoric trajectory, and if nothing else the result functions as a nigh-on impossible Zoom quiz question for the next time we all get locked the f*ck down in Hell World.

Brilliantly, there's a covertly disingenuous tone to Gorilla's voice as he introduced this tag team "classic," in which Warrior partnered with Don Muraco for the night. Muraco's spots looked good. Warrior's did not. Grounding Bass on the mat, he tried to apply some sort of hold, but Warrior being Warrior, it looked like he was helping Bass to relieve the cramp in his thigh. "I don't think he knows what he's going to do," Bobby Heenan said sagely.

In a miraculous spot deeper into the match, Warrior performed his role in a do-si-do spot smoothly, but the last cog on the offensive chain was rusty. Warrior tried to send the One Man Gang to the outside, but Warrior being Warrior, he used his armpit, not his arm.

The match descended into a schmozz when the Junkyard Dog arrived to counter Slick's cheating, and the result was awarded to the heel team.

Clean Rating: Wearing your boxers inside out after a wash cycle miscalculation.

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