Ranking the 5 most disappointing WrestleMania main events

#4 Hulk Hogan vs Yokozuna (vs Bret Hart) — WrestleMania 9

Sigh...

Speaking of soft spots, I know we’ve all Hulked up and hit the poses with Hogan on TV at one point or another in our lives. It's all great stuff, something that really got us going as kids and fall in love with pro wrestling.

I also know that the Hulkster is a far bigger draw than Bret Hart and Yokozuna, and keeping him in 1993 with WCW making moves seemed like a life or death situation. 22 seconds, though…

Even today, Wrestlemania IX is just brutal to watch. Boring, visually jarring, nonsense booking, poorly executed. It's just a real struggle for fans.

You would have hoped that two fresh additions to the main event scene in Yoko and Bret would have made for an intriguing matchup to salvage the show. I suppose they did enough to warrant a do-over the following year, so respect to that, but this finish was just horrendous.

A decent but short match ends with Bret, who is looking directly at Mr. Fuji dig around in his pocket for at least ten seconds, receive the most devastating finishing move in history: salt to the eyes.

It's so devastating in fact that he lets go of the sharpshooter, rolls into the center of the ring and gets pinned immediately without being hit by another move. Oh, the fun does not end there.

For some reason, Hogan shows up as though he’s not going to jump ship for more money in a few months and gets the most cringe-worthy endorsement from Bret to avenge the injustice from mere seconds before.

In line with the shambolic booking from the proceeding hours, Hogan then beats Yokozuna in mere seconds. 22 seconds to beat the big monster who had just beaten the defending Champion.

Creative might as well have had Yokozuna give up after getting salt in the eyes himself (a cunning reversal by Hogan) but we had to have a leg drop because that’s how things were done. Again to those who aren’t aware, WWF took an atomic leg drop in business for the following half decade because of this shambolic piece of booking.