From a fan standpoint, I was so excited to see him back in the WWF and cheered wildly watching on ppv as he beat Hunter. I was entertained by his brief feuds with Lawler and Goldust, though I wondered why he wasn't wrestling more. I was looking forward to the HBK, Ahmed, Warrior/Vader, Owen, Bulldog feud. I was also very disappointed when be was indefinitely "suspended." Warrior was becoming more edgy and I felt he would have fit well in the attitude era. Such a shame they couldn't work things out.
imagine them trying to pull that with a talent today. It doesn't matter what their past was, if warrior was saddened by the passing of his father, it is not within the WWE management to judge whether he was right or wrong for feeling that way in that time.
Well they expected things of men back then. Now they'd have to pay for 16 months of therapy. If people stub their toe now they get 4 weeks off. People are encouraged to be weak today and the country is conpletely crumbling in every way because of it. Separately, I also think it had to do with vinces mindset because he too was estranged from his real father and never wanted to see him again. So when warrior expressed the same, but then wanted a bunch of time off, vince questioned the motive
@@tonygucciano6875 you're so tough...on the internet. The one good fortune my generation has is that yours will be gone soon and all your false macho bluster dies with you.
All warrior had to do was answer a phone and explain the situation he didnt because warrior was always full of shit and himself not that those are two different things.
By the mid-late 90’s, Warriors character and moment had passed. He was great in the cartoon/superhero era, but as the direction and even culture had shifted, his over the top comic book character screaming incoherently was just out of place and kinda cringe
Bruce seems to always have something negative to say about certain guys and Warrior is always one of them. I don't know if its jealousy from Bruce. I'm sure Warrior really cared about what an errand boy working for vince really cared about him considering he only really dealt with Vince and Linda.
Because Warrior never played Vince's office games like other top guys. He didn't trust Vince Pat or this guy and I don't blame him. When you're a top guy like that there are a lot of people who want to control you and Bruce Prichard is the ultimate office politician, butt kisser and stooge
Because Warrior sucked in the ring. He didn’t have time for anyone but himself. He wasn’t popular in the dressing room with most of the other wrestlers. He had a reputation for being arrogant and hard to work with. All the names you mentioned probably didn’t want anything to do with the guy despite the fact he was popular with some fans. Austin especially seems like he wouldn’t have good chemistry with Warrior and you know Ahmed would probably get hurt or in turn hurt Helwig.
@@diggadirt393 Yeah, I can see it going two ways, either their egos make them walk around the ring not touching each other for twenty minutes and we get a count-out, or it's like a brawl-4-all and they end up injuring each other.
His character had NOTHING to do with his ‘declining’ impact . It got to a point where people anticipated for 1 reason or another warrior wouldn’t be around for long so that’s what somewhat ‘dulled’ the overall excitement
When the Warrior came back in 1996, the majority of his fans who were elementary or Jr. High school age were now High School/College age and probably had "moved on" from watching wrestling. He returned to a new group of wrestling fans who would eventually make up the bulk of the "extreme" and "attitude era" fans. Warrior just wasn't a good fit. I remember being intrigued initially when I heard he was coming back, but once it happened, it just seemed really weird and out of place.
I grew up in the 80's and i remember loving the Warrior, but when he actually beat Hogan at WrestleMania VI it went over like a fart in church. Going to live events before WM6 the crowds popped for Hogan much more but warrior was a close second. I remember going to the Hershey park arena in 1990 for a taping of superstars and Hogan was no longer the champ, but the roar of the crowd for him was insane and the warrior's was much less. I can't explain it but it was almost like people liked Hogan as champ and warrior as the IC champ better.
Warrior’s biggest problem was he made enemies of the 2 most powerful men in pro wrestling, Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan. Hogan had a huge amount of professional jealousy and forced Vince to pick sides, Vince picked Hogan, Warrior tried to hold Vince accountable for broken promises causing Warrior to get buried. It’s since been revealed that Vince and Hogan both encouraged their friends in the industry to trash talk Warrior in public with false or (at best) manipulative comments
@@bdt3367 What do you mean “doubt it?” That’s not opinion. This is fact that is documented in court. Just fyi, I’m a huge Warrior fan and im the one who originally changed Warrior’s wiki page to correct the Summerslam 91 “hold up” bc the Self Destruction dvd made it sound like he just didnt show. I did my own research and pulled hundreds of documents from the Self Destruction lawsuit. The 1996 firing was among the things discussed in that trial and I examined all of the exhibits. What I said is 1000% true and I would bet $20,000 on it ( and i have it.) If you feel so strong, put up the same amount and we’ll let a third party determine which of us is right, with the one who is correct taking all.
Nice to meet a Warrior fan. I recently discovered The Warrior Show on RUclips, couple of the most entertaining Warrior moments I've found away from WWF. Especially the I See Stars episode.
I don't know why Warrior thought those comics of his would sell. The only ones who knew of him were his fans and Wrestling fans in general. Your average comic book fan is not going to be interested in buying a comic book created by a pro Wrestler cause most of them don't care about Wrestling. At my local comic book store at the time the owners and staff didn't give a crap about his comic books cause they thought Wrestling was a joke and so was Warrior. As for the no shows he should have just been honest with Vince and Bruce, and told the truth that he needed the time off and simply not showing up
He was trying to continue the Warrior character outside of wrestling, as in comic books and movies. I guess it was going to be something like He-Man or Conan the Barbarian or whatever. It's a lofty goal but it does make sense for someone that won a lawsuit to own the rights to the character.
My God I am so sick of him beating this dead horse to death. Enough already! You didn’t like the guy we get it. Doesn’t change the fact that the fans did love him, he drew a lot of money and he was enormously over. It’s like all of these guys that didn’t like him can’t accept the fact that this is one of the most popular characters ever whether they like it or not. We’re tired of hearing about the hate for him. We liked him you didn’t. MOVE ON !!!!!
@Christy Widener Well, at least Prichard is polite and adult about it, compared to how utterly NASTY Jim Cornette is every time he mentions Warrior...and Cornette talks about Warrior ad nauseum.
@@christy4421 yeah, I find it off putting that a man well into his 60s delights himself of having the mouth of a teenager.. Even Steve Austin doesn't swear all the way to the moon anymore
Bruce Prichard has had a personal hatred for Ultimate Warrior for years, because he dropped Bruce on his head and cracked his teeth. So, everything Bruce says about Warrior is skewed.
Bruce wasn't the only one who had the wrath of dealing with Warrior's carelessness in the ring. He dropped Bobby Heenan on his neck which was already shot enough as it is. In Bobby Heenan's own words, "Do you want to know what it was like working with him? Follow me. **walks into the bathroom and flushes the toilet**"
@@CBright7831 Yeah, after Bobby’s neck injury in Japan, he really hated taking bumps. Brooklyn Brawler’s comments about Warrior are actually “mild”, considering that Warrior once knocked him out cold with a flying shoulder block.
Lost all.respect.for.him when he stood.up.that amke a.wish kid..the kid waiting outside his dressing room for 3 hrs before someone told him the warrior didn't feel like.seeing him...warrior was.my fav of all.time until i heard tbat...p.os.
I will never understand how The Ultimate Warrior ever got over. The WWF/WWE has always had shitty gimmicks, but most of them never made it far. He had a great body (and I actually liked his mic work), but nothing else.
He was the single version of the early version of The Road Warriors. They’d have Iron Man playing, hit the ring and it was over in 20 seconds. If it got over as a tag, try it as a singles run. The gimmick wasn’t supposed to be ultimate Lou thesz so the guy didn’t have to be technical. It got over more than they thought it would, he was already a big name as dingo warrior, but it fizzled out way faster than they thought.
@@GatorTorboro Some of my all-time favorite wrestlers never got over, and, of course, some of my all-time least-favorite wrestlers got over big time. I will never understand the mindset of wresting fans.
Warrior forced the WWF to buy tons and tons of his shitty comic books and only sold a few of them, they had boxes and boxes of them leftover and didn't know what to do with them.
Warrior was a piece of $#!+ that injured Bobby Heenan and his son Bruce and couldn’t care less. Classic bully that picks on the weak… he wasn’t pulling that with Rick Rude
He didn't have a stable relationship with his father. He used all of that as an excuse to hold out for money he thought he was worth. Jim was a piece of crap who thought he was bigger than the sport it's self.
The Warrior comic was laughably bad, and the artwork was absolutely atrocious. Though after hearing Bruce's opinion on the quality of the Warrior comic, suddenly the impetus behind the dire straights of WWE creative and the horrible NXT makeover makes sense.
Everybody has their own opinion about the ultimate warrior, and they are entitled to it. But the warrior could not grasp the context of reality. He could not separate reality from fantasy. He actually believed he was a warrior that rode down on a lightning bolt from Mount Olympus. Bret Hart always believed in his own gimmick but not like the warrior. Hart could walk around and conduct day to day operations as Bret Hart the man, father, brother and friend. But Warrior really believed he was that character in reality. In other words he had a serious mental condition.
@@nikkojennings51 That’s basically what I just said but in a more professional way. He had no in ring work ability. He had no clue how to sell. He needed to be cradled and completely walked through a match. People want to blast Hogan all the time. But if you watch him and warriors match, Hogan takes him step-by-step through the entire match. He basically hold his hand the whole time and guides him through it. As smart as Vince is I’m baffled how he could not foresee this in such a one dimensional one trick pony that completely could not be the face that runs a mega company. Warrior would have a hard time running a lemonade stand.
So everyone has their ‘opinions’ about warrior but YOU have the ‘facts’ … yea ok . Nice try with the smear campaign tho . ‘He actually believed he was a warrior that rode down on a lightning bolt’. …. dude you sound ridiculous
@@tharealest8190 the day you were born was ridiculous. Listen to his promos if you’re old enough to remember you little young punk. I’m quoting him. I don’t have to smear him, he did that all by himself. The only other thing that should’ve been smeared is you running down someone’s leg
Warrior was finished after he lost the title to slaughter he never regained the momentum he had ever again
In my opinion it would be a challenge to build Warrior back up to that spot during that time period. What do you do with him at that point?
He wasn't the draw they expected
SummerSlam 1990 was the end
From a fan standpoint, I was so excited to see him back in the WWF and cheered wildly watching on ppv as he beat Hunter. I was entertained by his brief feuds with Lawler and Goldust, though I wondered why he wasn't wrestling more. I was looking forward to the HBK, Ahmed, Warrior/Vader, Owen, Bulldog feud. I was also very disappointed when be was indefinitely "suspended." Warrior was becoming more edgy and I felt he would have fit well in the attitude era. Such a shame they couldn't work things out.
It's a shame that things didn't work out in 96. Warrior would have been great in the attitude era.
imagine them trying to pull that with a talent today. It doesn't matter what their past was, if warrior was saddened by the passing of his father, it is not within the WWE management to judge whether he was right or wrong for feeling that way in that time.
Well they expected things of men back then. Now they'd have to pay for 16 months of therapy. If people stub their toe now they get 4 weeks off.
People are encouraged to be weak today and the country is conpletely crumbling in every way because of it.
Separately, I also think it had to do with vinces mindset because he too was estranged from his real father and never wanted to see him again. So when warrior expressed the same, but then wanted a bunch of time off, vince questioned the motive
@@tonygucciano6875 you're so tough...on the internet. The one good fortune my generation has is that yours will be gone soon and all your false macho bluster dies with you.
All warrior had to do was answer a phone and explain the situation he didnt because warrior was always full of shit and himself not that those are two different things.
@@volunarc5248 Careful you don’t cut yourself on all that edge.
@@volunarc5248 ahhh so you knew warrior personally I take it ?
ULTIMATE WARRIOR#1 RIP
Nah
100K Hell Yeah!! Keep Rasslin
Warrior had the look and energy that was it his ring skills wasn't good by 2 outta 3 aint bad lol
Energy but no cardio.
He was the original Goldberg.
By the mid-late 90’s, Warriors character and moment had passed. He was great in the cartoon/superhero era, but as the direction and even culture had shifted, his over the top comic book character screaming incoherently was just out of place and kinda cringe
Bruce seems to always have something negative to say about certain guys and Warrior is always one of them. I don't know if its jealousy from Bruce. I'm sure Warrior really cared about what an errand boy working for vince really cared about him considering he only really dealt with Vince and Linda.
Jr does the same !! Warrior is know to be a shitty person lol
@@nikkojennings51 JR barely knew the guy.
@@patthewildgoose6460 he's known to be a shiity person lol even shittier wrestler
Because Warrior never played Vince's office games like other top guys. He didn't trust Vince Pat or this guy and I don't blame him. When you're a top guy like that there are a lot of people who want to control you and Bruce Prichard is the ultimate office politician, butt kisser and stooge
It seems like everyone in the business has negative takes on Jim Helwig. This isn't just Bruce's opinion.
Damn how did we not get warrior vs bret, hbk, austin, sycho sid in 96, what about ahmed vs warrior, 2 real intense guys
Because Warrior sucked in the ring. He didn’t have time for anyone but himself. He wasn’t popular in the dressing room with most of the other wrestlers. He had a reputation for being arrogant and hard to work with. All the names you mentioned probably didn’t want anything to do with the guy despite the fact he was popular with some fans. Austin especially seems like he wouldn’t have good chemistry with Warrior and you know Ahmed would probably get hurt or in turn hurt Helwig.
Ahmed vs Warrior? That’s 3 intense minutes followed by gasping for air and mindless grunts
@@IHateNicolasCage it would have been horrible
@@diggadirt393 Yeah, I can see it going two ways, either their egos make them walk around the ring not touching each other for twenty minutes and we get a count-out, or it's like a brawl-4-all and they end up injuring each other.
Be glad you didn’t because Austin would of jobbed to the Warrior in 96
Owen hart and warrior was one of his best matches and ironically it was his last match in the wwf
Warrior refused to evolve his character, so every time he returned it made his impact that much less.
His character had NOTHING to do with his ‘declining’ impact . It got to a point where people anticipated for 1 reason or another warrior wouldn’t be around for long so that’s what somewhat ‘dulled’ the overall excitement
His look and character in WCW would have worked in the Attitude era.
@@foreverred105 absolutely !
@@foreverred105 One Warrior Nation vs Nation of Domination..
When the Warrior came back in 1996, the majority of his fans who were elementary or Jr. High school age were now High School/College age and probably had "moved on" from watching wrestling. He returned to a new group of wrestling fans who would eventually make up the bulk of the "extreme" and "attitude era" fans. Warrior just wasn't a good fit. I remember being intrigued initially when I heard he was coming back, but once it happened, it just seemed really weird and out of place.
I grew up in the 80's and i remember loving the Warrior, but when he actually beat Hogan at WrestleMania VI it went over like a fart in church. Going to live events before WM6 the crowds popped for Hogan much more but warrior was a close second. I remember going to the Hershey park arena in 1990 for a taping of superstars and Hogan was no longer the champ, but the roar of the crowd for him was insane and the warrior's was much less. I can't explain it but it was almost like people liked Hogan as champ and warrior as the IC champ better.
Warrior’s biggest problem was he made enemies of the 2 most powerful men in pro wrestling, Vince McMahon and Hulk Hogan. Hogan had a huge amount of professional jealousy and forced Vince to pick sides, Vince picked Hogan, Warrior tried to hold Vince accountable for broken promises causing Warrior to get buried. It’s since been revealed that Vince and Hogan both encouraged their friends in the industry to trash talk Warrior in public with false or (at best) manipulative comments
Who’s the guy in the yellow trench coat to the far right?
It looks like Christopher Meloni lol
Shawn Michaels
Jimmy Cornett doing the 5 knuckle shuffle
Sounded like Bruce farted at 0:54 😂
😂😂😂💩💩💩
He did
He definitely did 😂😂
Definitely did!
I can't believe there are people in their 30s and 40s who still like the Ultimate Warrior.
Total dorks.
They’re all just marks... Same dudes who are still fans of Goldberg.
Can’t believe people that are fans of Bret Hart. Those would be dorks. Boring af.
It should be noted that Warrior did not attend his father’s funeral and he denied his siblings’ request to help with funeral expenses.
Doubt it
@@bdt3367 What do you mean “doubt it?” That’s not opinion. This is fact that is documented in court.
Just fyi, I’m a huge Warrior fan and im the one who originally changed Warrior’s wiki page to correct the Summerslam 91 “hold up” bc the Self Destruction dvd made it sound like he just didnt show.
I did my own research and pulled hundreds of documents from the Self Destruction lawsuit. The 1996 firing was among the things discussed in that trial and I examined all of the exhibits.
What I said is 1000% true and I would bet $20,000 on it ( and i have it.) If you feel so strong, put up the same amount and we’ll let a third party determine which of us is right, with the one who is correct taking all.
@@StuUngar Your offer of a $20k bet over a RUclips comments section is probably the most ridiculous thing I've ever had the comical pleasure to read.
Nice to meet a Warrior fan. I recently discovered The Warrior Show on RUclips, couple of the most entertaining Warrior moments I've found away from WWF. Especially the I See Stars episode.
@@bdt3367 Your smug incorrect response was amusing as well. Glad I could brighten your day.
DESTRUCITY
I don't know why Warrior thought those comics of his would sell. The only ones who knew of him were his fans and Wrestling fans in general. Your average comic book fan is not going to be interested in buying a comic book created by a pro Wrestler cause most of them don't care about Wrestling. At my local comic book store at the time the owners and staff didn't give a crap about his comic books cause they thought Wrestling was a joke and so was Warrior. As for the no shows he should have just been honest with Vince and Bruce, and told the truth that he needed the time off and simply not showing up
He was trying to continue the Warrior character outside of wrestling, as in comic books and movies. I guess it was going to be something like He-Man or Conan the Barbarian or whatever. It's a lofty goal but it does make sense for someone that won a lawsuit to own the rights to the character.
Sounds like a big bunch of horse dextrocity to me!
@Patrick Coyle I misspelled it
On purpose because its a stupid word to begin with
Wish his Hollywood move would of worked then we wouldn't of had 96 WWF & 98 WCW misfires.
I write with my left hand all the time.
My God I am so sick of him beating this dead horse to death. Enough already! You didn’t like the guy we get it. Doesn’t change the fact that the fans did love him, he drew a lot of money and he was enormously over. It’s like all of these guys that didn’t like him can’t accept the fact that this is one of the most popular characters ever whether they like it or not. We’re tired of hearing about the hate for him. We liked him you didn’t. MOVE ON !!!!!
Yeah I mean who cares what an errand boy working for Vince thinks!
@Christy Widener Well, at least Prichard is polite and adult about it, compared to how utterly NASTY Jim Cornette is every time he mentions Warrior...and Cornette talks about Warrior ad nauseum.
@@shirleypena4133 I absolutely agree. I find Jim rude about everything from warrior to politics. He’s ridiculous about 99% of the time.
@@christy4421 yeah, I find it off putting that a man well into his 60s delights himself of having the mouth of a teenager.. Even Steve Austin doesn't swear all the way to the moon anymore
You’re a mark.
Bruce Prichard has had a personal hatred for Ultimate Warrior for years, because he dropped Bruce on his head and cracked his teeth. So, everything Bruce says about Warrior is skewed.
Well everyone else says pretty much the same thing
It could also be truthful and more than likely is.
Bruce wasn't the only one who had the wrath of dealing with Warrior's carelessness in the ring. He dropped Bobby Heenan on his neck which was already shot enough as it is. In Bobby Heenan's own words, "Do you want to know what it was like working with him? Follow me. **walks into the bathroom and flushes the toilet**"
@@CBright7831 Yeah, after Bobby’s neck injury in Japan, he really hated taking bumps. Brooklyn Brawler’s comments about Warrior are actually “mild”, considering that Warrior once knocked him out cold with a flying shoulder block.
Lost all.respect.for.him when he stood.up.that amke a.wish kid..the kid waiting outside his dressing room for 3 hrs before someone told him the warrior didn't feel like.seeing him...warrior was.my fav of all.time until i heard tbat...p.os.
I will never understand how The Ultimate Warrior ever got over. The WWF/WWE has always had shitty gimmicks, but most of them never made it far. He had a great body (and I actually liked his mic work), but nothing else.
He was in the right place at the right time when 80‘s WWF came along.
He was badass if you were 7 years old. Anyone who is a grown man and still defends him has emotional issues.
He was the single version of the early version of The Road Warriors. They’d have Iron Man playing, hit the ring and it was over in 20 seconds. If it got over as a tag, try it as a singles run. The gimmick wasn’t supposed to be ultimate Lou thesz so the guy didn’t have to be technical. It got over more than they thought it would, he was already a big name as dingo warrior, but it fizzled out way faster than they thought.
@@GatorTorboro Some of my all-time favorite wrestlers never got over, and, of course, some of my all-time least-favorite wrestlers got over big time. I will never understand the mindset of wresting fans.
Warrior forced the WWF to buy tons and tons of his shitty comic books and only sold a few of them, they had boxes and boxes of them leftover and didn't know what to do with them.
Vince and Bruce used them for toliert paper
Comic books aren't cool anymore. They were cool when tv and movies were Clean and pure.
Lol...comic books were for 8-13 yr old boys. If you're reading comics after that you're a fkn nerd!
Crazy to think warrior’s last wwe match was against Owen Hart and now they’re both gone
Everyone seems to take a dig at Warrior. Hulk Hogan is the biggest fraud in WWE history. Warrior is not the most hated wrestler ever its Hogan.
Warrior was a piece of $#!+ that injured Bobby Heenan and his son Bruce and couldn’t care less. Classic bully that picks on the weak… he wasn’t pulling that with Rick Rude
You mean Bobby Heenan?
Rick Rude would of literally kill him.
@@CraigSmithII yeah, good old spell check at it again
his son bruce?
@@rewing84 Bruce Prichard was gonna play Bobby Heenan Jr but they didn’t go thru with the gimmick
He didn't have a stable relationship with his father. He used all of that as an excuse to hold out for money he thought he was worth. Jim was a piece of crap who thought he was bigger than the sport it's self.
I never liked the Warrior from day one. He seemed like a nutjob and that's how I perceived him and his character.
The Warrior comic was laughably bad, and the artwork was absolutely atrocious.
Though after hearing Bruce's opinion on the quality of the Warrior comic, suddenly the impetus behind the dire straights of WWE creative and the horrible NXT makeover makes sense.
Everybody has their own opinion about the ultimate warrior, and they are entitled to it. But the warrior could not grasp the context of reality. He could not separate reality from fantasy. He actually believed he was a warrior that rode down on a lightning bolt from Mount Olympus. Bret Hart always believed in his own gimmick but not like the warrior. Hart could walk around and conduct day to day operations as Bret Hart the man, father, brother and friend. But Warrior really believed he was that character in reality. In other words he had a serious mental condition.
He was just self absorbed lol ego issues no talent just looked good
@@nikkojennings51 That’s basically what I just said but in a more professional way. He had no in ring work ability. He had no clue how to sell. He needed to be cradled and completely walked through a match. People want to blast Hogan all the time. But if you watch him and warriors match, Hogan takes him step-by-step through the entire match. He basically hold his hand the whole time and guides him through it. As smart as Vince is I’m baffled how he could not foresee this in such a one dimensional one trick pony that completely could not be the face that runs a mega company. Warrior would have a hard time running a lemonade stand.
@@Ijustinsultedyou ya dude made hogan work like flair lol
So everyone has their ‘opinions’ about warrior but YOU have the ‘facts’ … yea ok . Nice try with the smear campaign tho . ‘He actually believed he was a warrior that rode down on a lightning bolt’. …. dude you sound ridiculous
@@tharealest8190 the day you were born was ridiculous. Listen to his promos if you’re old enough to remember you little young punk. I’m quoting him. I don’t have to smear him, he did that all by himself. The only other thing that should’ve been smeared is you running down someone’s leg