RIP Ultimate Warrior

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  • Escloflowne
    Escloflowne Posts: 2,038 Member
    He was my favourite as a kid!

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  • T_R_A_V
    T_R_A_V Posts: 1,629 Member
    He was my fav as a kid....til Stone Cold came around

    Crazy thing is I watched his Induction speech on Mondday.....sad day for the community
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    Not a wrestling fan, but so sad to hear of the loss so soon after receiving such amazing accolades.

    My condolences to his fans.
  • Tiernan1212
    Tiernan1212 Posts: 797 Member
    I was seriously shocked by this. I had just spent Wrestlemania weekend on the WWE Network with my kids, showing them a lot of the older matches so they understood just who the Ultimate Warrior is/was (as well as the others being inducted). My sone spent 2 hours wrestling around the rec rom as the Ultimate Warrior after that. So sad to hear the news. :cry:
  • Will_Thrust_For_Candy
    Will_Thrust_For_Candy Posts: 6,109 Member
    Such sad news today. I have so many childhood memories that involved wrestling. Steroids do such awful things to the body :cry:

    RIP Ultimate Warrior
  • AthleticForties_wechanged
    AthleticForties_wechanged Posts: 611
    As a wrestling fan for 30+ years its sad to see one of my favorites as a kid pass away at such a young age. That being said, by all accounts, he was a real A-hole to most everyone he worked with and to his fans. Bret Hart wrote in his book how a kid who was on his deathbed waited all night to meet him at a show once. He was apparently very sick, dying of cancer, lying on a gurney outside the dressing room all night in facepaint and tassles on his arm. Warrior never took 5 minutes of his time all night to meet the kid and his family. When you look at how many wishes John Cena has granted through the Make-A-Wish foundation it makes him look that much horrible.

    I'm not saying people don't change, and from what I've been reading he was a great family man to his wife and kids, but after reading about the behind the scenes crap he pulled in the late 80's/early 90's its a hard pill to swallow.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    As a wrestling fan for 30+ years its sad to see one of my favorites as a kid pass away at such a young age. That being said, by all accounts, he was a real A-hole to most everyone he worked with and to his fans. Bret Hart wrote in his book how a kid who was on his deathbed waited all night to meet him at a show once. He was apparently very sick, dying of cancer, lying on a gurney outside the dressing room all night in facepaint and tassles on his arm. Warrior never took 5 minutes of his time all night to meet the kid and his family. When you look at how many wishes John Cena has granted through the Make-A-Wish foundation it makes him look that much horrible.

    I'm not saying people don't change, and from what I've been reading he was a great family man to his wife and kids, but after reading about the behind the scenes crap he pulled in the late 80's/early 90's its a hard pill to swallow.

    A. Unless you were there, you can't really know for sure what happened.

    B. You shouldn't speak ill of the dead. What might people say about you after you are gone?
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    hasn't there been other wrestlers named the ultimate warroir that have died in the past?
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    He was one of my favourite wrestlers as a kid :sad:
  • Tiernan1212
    Tiernan1212 Posts: 797 Member
    hasn't there been other wrestlers named the ultimate warroir that have died in the past?

    No, there was a fake story/rumor that he died a few years ago.
  • No_Finish_Line
    No_Finish_Line Posts: 3,661 Member
    ok, gotcha. i was a big fan when i was a kid. honestly had no idea that any of the wrestlers of my youth were still at it.
  • Mello_Rello
    Mello_Rello Posts: 421 Member
    One of the greats...RIP
  • scooterjay_wwis
    scooterjay_wwis Posts: 120 Member
    Warrior was my favorite wrestler back in the day.
    I've had the opportunity to meet the man and shake his hand. He was balls-to-the-walls, an all out, high intensity, Superstar.
    He had his Drug Demons and other abuses, but has over come them, and made peace with GOD his family, and his fans.
    I seen him give his WWE Hall Of Fame acceptance speech and thank his wife for sticking with him during the AWFUL times (as he put it) I saw him give his Spirit to the WWE Universe to live on forever. In my OPINION he knew his time was short, and wanted to say his goodbyes.
    RIP ULTIMATE WARRIOR
    from;
    one of your warriors
  • tomomatic
    tomomatic Posts: 1,794 Member
    He was my favourite as a kid!

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    Great gif.

    He was one of my favorites. He was a big part of my Saturday mornings. I still remember when he got buried by the Undertaker. RIP.
  • moya_rargh
    moya_rargh Posts: 1,473 Member
    <--- Already painted up as a tribute! *snort*
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
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  • lilRicki
    lilRicki Posts: 4,555 Member
    Ah man, I just had to tell my husband that his all-time favorite wrestler passed away. Truly sad. So glad he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame before passing. He deserved it. Loved watching the man wrestle.

    RIP Ultimate Warrior.

    Yep, I just texted my son (he's 11, and we watch wrestling all the time)...he's gutted too even though he didn't live during the Hulk vs Warrior era, he still enjoyed watching the old footage. RIP UW, you were such a great performer.

    Side note: his speech on RAW was creepy foreshadowing, gives me the willies.
  • tomwatso
    tomwatso Posts: 1,304 Member
    RIP Jim H.
  • AJL_Daddy
    AJL_Daddy Posts: 525 Member
    He returns to parts unknown.
  • jasonmh630
    jasonmh630 Posts: 2,850 Member
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    Wow...
  • RhineDHP
    RhineDHP Posts: 1,025 Member
    I disagree...I think they BOTH knew SOMETHING was going on...he didn't look good during the HoF ceremony, or at RAW.....I think this was their way of mending things, and letting him speak to the WWE universe.

    I think they both knew his time was short, but I don't think they knew that THIS was happening so soon. Maybe since he got everything off his chest and addressed the universe one more time, he decided that it was his time...I dunno...I'm saddened about this regardless of it.

    True, no one knows when it's someone's time, but shortened lifespan wouldn't be a reason to be inducted. In this vein of thought they would've inducted Paul Bearer a lot earlier than his death. Again, the only reason he was inducted is because, through heavy intervention by Triple H, Vince and Warrior were able to bury the hatchet (other example is Bruno Sammartino as I stated before - he refused to be inducted because at the time he didn't like the TV-14 WWE product. Triple H was able to convince him to finally agree). Regardless of health he would've never been inducted had this not happened.

    But man, seeing all those tweets from all the wrestlers....everyone was blindsided by his death. It's seriously really crazy.


    I agree, he didn't look good at the ceremony, and especially during his segment on RAW. Very winded. But his promo was amazing. What makes me saddest is that he addressed his children several times during his speech. They only looked to be around 11 and 8 years old. To lose your father that early in life, and so suddenly, is absolutely horrible. My thoughts go out to them.
  • MysteriousMerlin
    MysteriousMerlin Posts: 2,270 Member
    :cry:
  • joehempel
    joehempel Posts: 1,543 Member
    Looks like the Autopsy results came back and it was a heart attack. The coroner stated that the cause of death were natural, and that no drugs or alcohol were involved at all in this.

    While I think that it's true that at this point all drugs and alcohol are no longer in his system and he's been off for a long time, I think long time abuse did play a factor in his heart possibly being weaker.

    At any rate....RIP Warrior, you are an icon in the wrestling industry
  • GorillaNJ
    GorillaNJ Posts: 4,024 Member
    http://gymflow100.com/the-ultimate-tribute-ultimate-warrior-at-planet-fitness-lol/

    This tribute is worth the bump
  • joehempel
    joehempel Posts: 1,543 Member
    yes....yes it was LOL

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