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The Ultimate Warrior; Yes, Him.
Topic Started: Aug 13 2010, 05:22 AM (107 Views)
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The Man. Any Questions?
I'm going to take an unpopular stance here.

I'm sure everyone has read all the internet shit tearing him apart, and seen the DVD character assassination. You've all heard the shit about "can't work, blahblah".

Well, I've been watching my oldschool DVDs lately. I just watched his SummerSlam'89 match against Ravishing Rick Rude (Hall of Fame; it's a damn shame).

Warrior COULD work. Moves? He had plenty; I don't know what in hell people are talking about. He had piledrivers, multiple suplex variations, etc. A decent array of "scientific" moves, especially for a power wrestler. And yes, he DID sell well enough. People act like he no-sold everything. Not so!

And when it comes to sheer jack-you-up energy when he's in the ring, few people - of that era or today, for that matter - could come close.

The dude had plenty going on out there.

In closing, I just want to say that the Warrior was one of the greats, and gets a real shitty deal from modern press for no good reason.
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The reason is because he quickly turned into a guy with a massive ego who became more and more batshit crazy as the years wore on; a guy who began to fully buy into his own hype and started to believe he was a lot more valuable than he actually was.

Basically, he pulled a Hogan - but after Hogan already took that spot, brother.

And that DVD of his probably wouldn't have been nearly as scathing if Warrior would have agreed to be interviewed for it. It was only turned into a smear piece after he refused.

The Ultimate Warrior was a true main eventer in his time. He had all the tools to be on top of the wrestling world in the late 80s/early 90s era. I would even say he was more entertaining then than most of the main eventers today are now. But unfortunately for him, he didn't really have a lot of offer once his time at the top was up and he let himself become the kind of person nobody wants to do business with.

The title of his WWE DVD is fitting because Warrior is looked at now the way he is looked at because he self-destructed. He didn't just become an egomaniac that bought into his own hype, but he basically became a real life extreme eccentric that gets on the nerves of a lot of people - important people in the wrestling business and fans alike. That pretty much dooms any legacy of his for the most part. Unless he reconciles with WWE for more than a legend contract, I don't expect that his history will be written as anything much better for years to come.
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