#6 Hulk Hogan vs. The Ultimate Warrior Wrestlemania VI (1990)
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This match has gone on to become a defining encounter of the Golden Era. As much as WWE despised the idea of pitting face vs. face, the Hogan-Warrior bout broke the barriers of long worshipped tradition.
The match `was by no means the epitome of a technical masterpiece, but Hogan and Warrior managed to weave a compelling story with their limited arsenal of moves. The title for title stipulation was a stroke of genius going into the matchup.
Hogan had steadily been growing as the unrivalled face of the WWE, but a certain ripped, face painted, superhero-like, larger than life man from parts unknown had arrived to stake his claim for the WWE Championship.
The two men exemplified everything that the WWE had stood for in the 80s and early 90s. Two behemoths locked in a battle for supremacy. The crowd was split right down the middle for the two men and this added an extra dimension to the matchup. The match was booked to carefully brush away the inadequacies of the two men inside the ring.
Hogan handing over the belt to Warrior at the end of the match just fills the heart with a warm, fuzzy feeling now that we know how the relations between the two men went downhill as time progressed.
