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#2 Ultimate Warrior returns to WWF
Despite the many victories WCW were scoring against Vince McMahon and the WWF by the start of 1996, the owner still found a way to tempt some viewers back to his organisation. If WCW were going to rely on old WWF icons like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage, then Vince could respond in kind by hiring back The Ultimate Warrior.
The Warrior had left the company back in 1992 following a very impressive period at the top of the wrestling industry, defeating Hogan at Wrestlemania VI for the WWF Championship. 1996 was a different time, of course, but there were still large sections of the audience that loved an old fashioned nostalgia-pop.
Warrior's first match back was against Hunter Hearst Helmsley at Wrestlemania. Despite Triple H being part of the influential Kliq faction, nothing would get in the way of the legend's return. He squashed the promising young Superstar in a matter of minutes and went on to compete against the likes of Jerry Lawler and Jake Roberts in later competitions.
It was not clear how long-term the agreement with Warrior was supposed to be. It would have been a hard sell giving him the championship once again considering that wrestling was clearly moving towards a more 'reality-based' format with not a lot of space for cartoonish 80s gimmicks.
We would never actually find out, however, as a few months after his return, Warrior left WWF once more due to disagreements around his contract and missing house show bookings. It would be another 18 years before we saw the Warrior on WWE TV again, entering the Hall of Fame class of 2014, just a day before his untimely death.
