WWE: The Ultimate Warrior's 6 Biggest Controversies
5. Feuding With Hulk Hogan In WCW
After his second controversial departure from WWE, Warrior took some time off before he signed a contract with WCW in 1998. In a common WCW mistake at the time, Warrior was awarded a clause in his contract that gave him creative control over his character and how it would be portrayed on television. He used this creative control to give us one of the most ridiculous storylines that wrestling had ever seen. Perhaps unaware that wrestling had moved on and become more "realistic," Warrior constructed a story that would have been more at home in the cartoon era of wrestling in the late 80s and early 90s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bB_HJSEe_0 Realising that the n.W.o were the big ticket at the time, Warrior created an opposing faction known as the One Warrior Nation whose acronym OWN was a play on the n.W.o name. This resulted in the New World Order having to put up with Warrior's insane magic tricks and gadgets. These included succumbing to knockout gas and watching Warrior disappear and reappear at will through trap doors hidden in the ring. He even started using his own rip off of the Bat Signal. Most ridiculously, Warrior used his magic to play mind games on Hulk Hogan in the build up to their match at Halloween Havoc that year. Most famously, was Warrior appearing as an apparition in a mirror and taunting Hulk Hogan who was supposedly the only person who could see him. Hogan went crazy at the mirror while Eric Bischoff maintained that he couldn't see anything. Except that everyone watching at home could see him and so could the announcers. It clearly wasn't all in Hogan's mind if everyone else could see it too. They couldn't even get the effect right with Warrior clearly being in the next room rather than just appearing in the mirror. Bischoff cleared the camera crew from the area, maybe realizing how ridiculous the whole thing looked. The feud built to a match between the two at Halloween Havoc and all the signs were there that it was going to be a complete farce. What resulted is a match that is widely considered one of the worst in WCW history. Both men were sloppy, slow and mistimed numerous spots in the match before completely messing up the matches major moments. Hogan was supposed to light a piece of flash paper and create the illusion of throwing a fireball at the Warrior. Instead he fumbled around with it and ended up setting it off in his own face which unfortunately didn't singe his ridiculous handlebar moustache off. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78XbX5tVFeY The match dragged on for another few minutes before Horace Hogan mercifully interfered and hit Warrior with a chair allowing Hulk pick up the win with a leg drop. Warrior left the company soon after though the reason why is again different depending on who tells the story. WCW claim that Warrior asked for too much money to continue working for them. Warrior however insists that they just stopped calling him and only ever brought him in so that a selfish Hogan could get his win back from WrestleMania years before.
