Anyone remember The Ultimate Warrior? [EDIT April 2014 -- RIP]

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I was once a wrasslin fan (years ago now).

He's now a far right bigot who changed his name to "Warrior" (because he's lost it). I haven't checked on him for years, since I found this out, but in a brief moment of bordeom I gave the old fella a quick Google. And some of his opinions are - uhm - pretty fecking mad.

Maybe good for a laugh though.

http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/030104.htm http://www.ultimatewarrior.com/060104.htm

And that's just two examples.
Have fun.

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 18 July 2004 12:23 (twenty-one years ago)

surely there was more than 1 ultimate warrior? the way he looked changed radically more than once, if i recall rightly.

when the great wrasslin' boom hit I was 11 i think. my favourite (for no good reason - i think i've got a habit of supporting small and perenially shite people) was El Matador.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Sunday, 18 July 2004 13:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Think there was just the one. He was rubbish too.

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 18 July 2004 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it's true, but someone on Wrestlecrap claimed to have encountered him refuelling a car with a giant picture of himself in wrestling gear on the side, loudly singing his WWF entrance music. Imagine if he drove everywhere in it, just going 'DUH duh duh duh duh duh duh DUH-DUH-DUH DUH.' It'd be great.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 18 July 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

surely there was more than 1 ultimate warrior? t

nope, just one guy. Steroids are a helluva drug.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

and face paints sure makes you look different

― ken c (ken c), Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i could have swore that all the von erich brothers were gone... maybe just two of them.

― todd swiss (eliti), Sunday, 18 July 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

more than two. Ask dom. Drugs will kill any pro-wrestler off as quick as anybody else; they just don't realize it.

anyway, it wasn't the facepaints, but the fact that Warrior's changing steroid use caused him to blow up/shrink over the years.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

plus all them slim jims, shit ain't healthy

― cinniblount (James Blount), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The only Von Erich that isn't dead is the one that never had any intentions to enter into pro-wrestling.

Jackie drowned in a puddle of snow after electrocuting himself at a friend's house.
David died of an intestine inflamation
Mike took an overdose after a dislocated shoulder effectively ended his career
Chris shot himself after realising he'd never make it as a wrestler.
And, of course, Kerry committed suicide after being arrested for posession with intent to supply.

Kevin is last man standing. www.vonerich.com

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Dom - what's the expert analysis of the Warrior then? Is he a dickhead, insane or both?

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 18 July 2004 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. OK, Hogan is right: Hellwig never had the ability to headline the WWF at all. He was great in a Randy Savage/Mick Foley style "second biggest face" way, but, like Savage and Foley (and Sid fucking Eudy), if you tried to get him to headline a card, you'd have a disaster on your hand, as they did post Wrestlemania VI. They should have put the title on Mr Perfect at that point, but, hey.

As a wrestler, he had good intensity, basic psychology, and minimal skills. His matches with Jake Roberts are classics, though.

After he left the WWF for the first time... ego took over. His three returns to pro-wrestling since then have all burnt out quickly, because he gets paid too much money for doing too little. He's got the ego from that, and then he's just basically flipped. He is insane, and I will go on the record as saying as such. He's changed his name to The Warrior by deed poll. His politics are... very dangerous. Some bizzare mix between right-wing ideology, positive mental attitude, and paganism.

And the posedown with Rick Rude? Posedowns in wrestling always suck.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 18 July 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Surely he must have some inclination of how nutty his posts come across? He has even come to attacking Bush for being too liberal. I find it quite scary he claims to have two children. They're surely growing up as complete bigots who spend their spare time beating up poor kids or shooting wildlife with a machine gun or something.

I remember liking The Warrior as a kid. He was a kid's wrestler really wasn't he? I never saw any of his matches when he arrived in WCW, which was around the time I stopped watching wrestling.

Was Savage - or Foley - ever such a "disaster" as a headliner though?

― C-Man (C-Man), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember liking The Warrior as a kid. He was a kid's wrestler really wasn't he?

you're more correct than you realize, since Vince McMahon realized sometime in the early-mid 80's that he could make millions by tailoring his product towards children. He spent the rest of the decade doing that.

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Sunday, 18 July 2004 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved the warrior as a kid. He had a very entertaining title victory over Hogan which was supposed to be a changing of the guard, so to speak, as Hogan went off to do movies. Mr. Passantino is very OTM regarding Warrior's inability as a headliner. I was a young Warrior mark and even I could see then how all momentum was lost when he was champion.
The young republicans here at Ohio University brought him in as a guest speaker, I was so psyched for it since I heard about his batsoid ideological bent. Unfortunately, I was quite busy and the day came and went and I forgot.

― theodore fogelsanger, Monday, 19 July 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Kingfish: surely the start of the kiddy era was Hogan beating the Iron Shiek for the title? Then you had rock and roll wrestling, Backlund quitting, The Bumble Bees, and other assorted crap. Really, WWF didn't stop being tailored to the under 15s until... well, Attitude.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 19 July 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

nine years pass...

*blink*

http://www.wwe.com/inside/ultimate-warrior-passes-away-26223975

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:16 (eleven years ago)

only 54. the wave of early deaths and ruined lives around pro-wrestling is a pretty serious indictment.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:18 (eleven years ago)

on behalf of the entire internet (currently falling all over itself to say the dumbest shit possible about suicide/steroids/"what's best for business" etc) let's PLEASE reserve judgment/analysis until we have the slightest idea what happened here

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:21 (eleven years ago)

i'll happily wait, in this case. point's still true, tho. this story just reminded me of it.

― Daniel, Esq 2, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:22 (eleven years ago)

man deadspin just bumped this again the other day - http://deadspin.com/5506969/dead-wrestler-of-the-week-the-ultimate-warrior

― balls, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 04:38 (eleven years ago)

9:52 PM PT -- Officials tell TMZ ... Warrior collapsed outside an Arizona hotel at 5:50 PM on April 8th ... while walking to his car with his wife.

Warrior was transported to a nearby hospital ... where he was pronounced dead.

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 05:16 (eleven years ago)

just seems like a horrible coincidence. his poor kids.

― the portentous pepper (govern yourself accordingly), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 05:16 (eleven years ago)

Last night:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR08M6EUd0g&sns=tw

― polyphonic, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 05:24 (eleven years ago)

damn, he was one of my childhood favourites. i even had a knitted warrior jumper.

― Merdeyeux, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 10:44 (eleven years ago)

RIP. UW was awesome.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 11:22 (eleven years ago)

Loved this guy. RIP

― recommend me a new bagman (darraghmac), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 12:17 (eleven years ago)

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