Ultimate Warrior Speech Turns Into Near Riot(written by Dave Meltzer, then stolen several times over)The Ultimate Warrior gave a speech infront of University of Connecticut students last night that almost broke out into a riot. Major arguments broke out after many considered Warrior's thoughts to be homophobic and racist.People started yelling at Warrior as he spoke. Warrior at one point started yelling and stomping his feet, telling everyone to not talk while he is and to ask questions after his speech. Officers were eventually called in to calm things down.The group that brought Warrior in, the College Republicans, apologized heavily for bringing Warrior in after the speech ended. Statements that really got the crowd upset were when Warrior said "queering don't make the world work" and told an Iranian girl to "get a towel." Warrior also admitted that he used steroids while in wrestling and told any other wrestler they should be as honest as he was.
The Ultimate Warrior gave a speech infront of University of Connecticut students last night that almost broke out into a riot. Major arguments broke out after many considered Warrior's thoughts to be homophobic and racist.
People started yelling at Warrior as he spoke. Warrior at one point started yelling and stomping his feet, telling everyone to not talk while he is and to ask questions after his speech. Officers were eventually called in to calm things down.
The group that brought Warrior in, the College Republicans, apologized heavily for bringing Warrior in after the speech ended. Statements that really got the crowd upset were when Warrior said "queering don't make the world work" and told an Iranian girl to "get a towel." Warrior also admitted that he used steroids while in wrestling and told any other wrestler they should be as honest as he was.
in other news, pro-wrestling fansites/newsboards have not improved their webcoding skills in the last 6 years.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)
also, note that sharing steroids with Vince McMahon for 4 years isn't necessarily the best for your mental health in the long run, tho it seems to insure a good push or three into the spotlight...
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:26 (twenty years ago)
HOME STATE PRIDE FOR SHO
I'm getting MY towel!
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:28 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)
I'm also fond of the way the "quotes" are ordered. First, homophobia. Then, the racial thing. And, last but most definitely not least, STEROIDS.
And no one thought to throw a chair at UW?!?
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)
??
― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)
"We have written letters of apology to several groups and organizations on campus that represent the people toward whom many of the Warrior's comments were directed. A short, but not complete, list of these groups would consist of the Rainbow Center, AQUA, QUAD, the African American Cultural Center, the Asian American Cultural Center, the Puerto Rican/Latin American Cultural Center, the Iranian Students Association, and the Women's Center."
― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 7 April 2005 12:48 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)
Also, the paper does have a number of conservative writers but they would likely never even go as far as openly decry homosexuality.
― Alex in TCBY (ex machina), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)
That was some sweet, sweet crack they smoked.
Heath W Fahle
Spokesman for the UCONN College Republicans
I assume this is his wrestling name.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:30 (twenty years ago)
his official website. looks like he personally hand-coded it.
― kingfish maximum overdrunk (Kingfish), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:34 (twenty years ago)
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:44 (twenty years ago)
ho ho ho!
― ken c (ken c), Thursday, 7 April 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)
from Scott Keith's livejouranl:
"Hey Scott,Long time reader, blaaaaaaaaaah blah blah. Listen, I attended the Ultimate Warrior "event" here at UConn on Tuesday night, and let me say that it wasn't as crazy as the news reports are making it out to be.It was much crazier.First of all, the reason it got to near-riot levels was because a group of extreme-leftist/hippies found out about Warrior and his stance on several issues and verbally attacked him from the audience every time he made an extremely-right-winged comment.Warrior was in rare form that night. After he made a comment about how homosexuals are nowhere near on the same level as heterosexuals, which elicited an "oh my god" from a female student, he quickly replied with "Don't have an orgasm now honey, save it for later!" And when an obviously gay student started screaming at him from the back of the auditorium, Warrior replied with "I can't hear you with that thing in your mouth." Just crazy. For the record a good 3/4 of the audience were old wrestling fans who just came to see their childhood hero (like me)... it's a shame the section of students who were on a mission to cause trouble succeeded. The Warrior has been touring colleges for the last few years and this is the first time he was met with such... resistance. Anyways, here's a link from to an article in our college paper. Keep up the good work Scott-Chrishttp://www.dailycampus.com/news/2005/04/06/News/The-Warrior.Attacks-914467.shtml"Geez, I'm shocked people are even surprised when Warrior goes off and says something completely inappropriate in public these days. FYI, his response on his website is even funnier than the original story.
Long time reader, blaaaaaaaaaah blah blah. Listen, I attended the Ultimate Warrior "event" here at UConn on Tuesday night, and let me say that it wasn't as crazy as the news reports are making it out to be.
It was much crazier.
First of all, the reason it got to near-riot levels was because a group of extreme-leftist/hippies found out about Warrior and his stance on several issues and verbally attacked him from the audience every time he made an extremely-right-winged comment.
Warrior was in rare form that night. After he made a comment about how homosexuals are nowhere near on the same level as heterosexuals, which elicited an "oh my god" from a female student, he quickly replied with "Don't have an orgasm now honey, save it for later!" And when an obviously gay student started screaming at him from the back of the auditorium, Warrior replied with "I can't hear you with that thing in your mouth." Just crazy. For the record a good 3/4 of the audience were old wrestling fans who just came to see their childhood hero (like me)... it's a shame the section of students who were on a mission to cause trouble succeeded. The Warrior has been touring colleges for the last few years and this is the first time he was met with such... resistance. Anyways, here's a link from to an article in our college paper. Keep up the good work Scott
-Chris
http://www.dailycampus.com/news/2005/04/06/News/The-Warrior.Attacks-914467.shtml"
Geez, I'm shocked people are even surprised when Warrior goes off and says something completely inappropriate in public these days.
FYI, his response on his website is even funnier than the original story.
― kingfish, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)
Yep.
― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
how does this NOT sound like something jon williams would say?!?
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:04 (twenty years ago)
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:06 (twenty years ago)
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:31 (twenty years ago)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)
"queering don't make the world work"
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)
"Don't have an orgasm now honey, save it for later!"
― David Svensson (deangulberry), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:35 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:41 (twenty years ago)
(* "blow up" - wrestle-speak for when a wrestler gets tired during the match, and starts visibly sucking wind. it was rumored that the UW would do this after JUST running down to the ring.)
or if his politics were agreed upon by the legislative and judicial bodies of the One Warrior Nation.
or how Ed Leslie's been lately.
xpost HAHAHAHA. that reminds me of a joke made at the bar we watched Wrestlemania in, where somebody asked if anybody wanted to lay odds on a blown abdominal muscle during the Heavyweight match.
(explanatory note: one of the side effects of steroids is a weaking of the connective tissue attaching muscles to the skeleton. Triple H, the champ going into the match, has been repeatedly pointed out for inexplicably growing in physique over the years. he also blew out a quad in the middle of a TV match 4 years ago, which many, many people found very, very funny.)
― kingfish, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
The best thing about Hogan has to be how honest he is about the fact he doesn't like Warrior and he deliberately made him look like a sack of shit at Wrestlemania VI
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:49 (twenty years ago)
"I respect you, booker man"
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish, Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:52 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 7 April 2005 19:55 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:20 (twenty years ago)
― Open your eyes; you can fly! (ex machina), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 03:28 (twenty years ago)
I would totally countersue this guy just to piss him off.
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 12:45 (twenty years ago)
― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:45 (twenty years ago)
― miccio (miccio), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)
Somebody once claimed on Wrestlecrap to have seen the Ultimate Warrior at a gas station in a car with a big picture of himself in wrestling gear painted on it, with his WWF theme music blaring out of the stereo. I was inclined to think 'nah, that's made up, that's too ridiculous'. But then, it's the Ultimate Warrior.
If he googles this we're in SO MUCH TROUBLE.
― Fergal (Ferg), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)
― $V£N! (blueski), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)
― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:08 (twenty years ago)
http://p220.ezboard.com/fwarriorcentralfrm2.showMessage?topicID=645.topic
...I can reveal to you that this DVD is not going to be one that fanswill want to see. Many talents have appeared on this disc to talkabout Warrior - Bobby Heenan, Pat Patterson, Paul London, HHH, JR,John Cena, Batista, Hogan, Eddie, Benoit and others - and every singleone of them has painted him a negative light. All the comments makefun of Warrior, and talk about what an idiot, flash in the pan, andlucky guy he was.There are also two bonus features on disc 2. The first is "UltimateImpressions" in which current WWE superstars do their bestimpersonation of Warrior. It is sad to say the least - Benoit foams atthe mouth and yells at the top of his voice...HHH messes his hair allup and pretends to be Warrior shaking the ropes, and Batista ties somebootlaces around his arms and talks to his hands. More insulting,there is a "Warrior Calamaties" montage of times when Warrior has mademistakes - slipping over, bloopers during interviews, botched moves,etc....
There are also two bonus features on disc 2. The first is "UltimateImpressions" in which current WWE superstars do their bestimpersonation of Warrior. It is sad to say the least - Benoit foams atthe mouth and yells at the top of his voice...HHH messes his hair allup and pretends to be Warrior shaking the ropes, and Batista ties somebootlaces around his arms and talks to his hands. More insulting,there is a "Warrior Calamaties" montage of times when Warrior has mademistakes - slipping over, bloopers during interviews, botched moves,etc....
"bloopers during interviews"? they fit all those on ONE DVD?
― kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 23 July 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)
In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you I have watched Brokeback Mountain no less than 45 times and I own the Limited Edition DVD, signed by Willie Nelson a short time after he wrote that queer cowboy song as a tribute to the courage of the producers and actors who broke such incredible creative ground when they made their agenda-less movie. Serious. Until I saw Bendover Brokeback, Braveheart was my favorite movie. But the love scenes of Brokeback sucked me right in and I had no choice but to give myself over to the passion of its wide open range, if you get my drift. Such courage this young man and his collaegues have. Reminds me of the courage of classic movie stars, where during the War they enlisted and flew bomber planes and fought on frontlines, then came back and picked up their lives and careers right where they left off, without anti-American sentiment, whining and complaining, or self-destructive self indulgence. I’m equally inspired.
Apparently, Leather Hedger had sleeping troubles and anxiety and dealt with terrible mood swings. So do soldiers but they don’t self-destructively fuck up their lives. In fact, they don’t sleep, handle anxiety and mood swings while dealing with whether or not they might at any moment lose their life. And they do this all the while they are dangerously protecting the freedom of others to fuck up their own. By the way, how many 28 (or older or younger) year old soldiers met their death yesterday? It’s not easy to find out. None of them made the headlines of any news.
By today’s standard, though, I do have to agree that he was a great father. Perhaps even greater then the father of the year, Hulk Hogan. After all, Leather Hedger did what it took to kill himself. His kid is without a father, yes, but the negative influence is now removed and his own child has the chance for a full recovery. Hogan, on the other hand, won’t go quite that far. He insists on sticking around to keep further ruining, and profiting off of, the parentally mismanaged lives of his own children.
It is sad and tragic….that we don’t demand attention be paid to greater things.
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 23:30 (eighteen years ago)
that really doesn't deserve to be reposted, dom.
― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 23 January 2008 23:47 (eighteen years ago)
1992 Royal Rumble, except Warrior wasn't in that (it was during his 11 months off period before WM VIII). It is the best Rumble ever, and if you have £30 hanging about doing nothing, "The Ultimate Ric Flair Collection" (nine hours of Flair) is the best DVD ever.
-- Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 14:08 (2 years ago) Link
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― That mong guy that's shit, Thursday, 24 January 2008 13:40 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClCDrVbxlqU
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― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:38 (seventeen years ago)
Oh, I was wondering what happened to Orlando Jordan*.
(* - not really)
― King Boy Pato, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:42 (seventeen years ago)
LOL forever at Warrior blowing up trying to take off his coat.
― King Boy Pato, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:47 (seventeen years ago)
Funniest match since the glory days of Kris Sprules, easily
― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 27 June 2008 13:52 (seventeen years ago)
Good lord this was 3 years ago.
― kingfish, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:13 (seventeen years ago)
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― latebloomer, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:28 (seventeen years ago)
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― latebloomer, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:32 (seventeen years ago)
spirit of a Warrior, breath control of Big Pun
― MPx4A, Friday, 27 June 2008 15:53 (seventeen years ago)
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― The stickman from the hilarious "xkcd" comics, Friday, 27 June 2008 20:22 (seventeen years ago)
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― Pancakes Hackman, Friday, 27 June 2008 20:26 (seventeen years ago)
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Ultimate Warrior at the Legends of the Ring 14 convention Saturday, June 2, 2012, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Monroe, NJ.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Thursday, 28 June 2012 03:21 (thirteen years ago)