The Life of The Ultimate Warrior Part 1

For those of you that know me, you know I'm a huge, huge Ultimate Warrior fan.

I know he is a very polarizing or controversial figure in this business.

Was he a great wrestler? No.

I will be one of the first ones to tell you that he was definitely not a good worker.

But...

He had that something that McMahon really wanted in the WWF at the time, and he pushed him to the moon.

As Jimmy Cornette said on, I believe it was the Dark Side of the Ring Season 3 episode, Becoming Warrior, he looked like a million bucks, and he had one of the greatest promoters push him to the moon.

And Mr. Cornette is absolutely right on that.

Ultimate Warrior was actually my motivation to start working out back in 2003.

And I'll be the first to tell you that when I found out he passed away, I cried.

I cried off and on for a couple of days.

I mean, because that was my, that was my hero.

That was my role model.

Now, with that being said, were there things that he did that I did not agree with or say things that I did not agree with? Absolutely.

Absolutely.

I mean, it, We'll get into that a little bit later.

So I'll be referencing Ultimate Warrior with his life through Wikipedia.com. I'll also be referencing the Dark Side of the Ring episode.

I'll also be referencing the, I guess you could call it the Holy Grail of shoot interviews because he did one back in 2005.

And I'll also reference that self-destruction of the Ultimate Warrior DVD that WWE put out back in 2005 as well.

So, we'll go ahead and get started.

So, the Ultimate Warrior, and if you didn't know this, he did legally change his name to Warrior, but that can be covered later on.

He was born James Brian Helwig on June 16, 1959.

And just to give you a little bit of background on him, he was an American professional wrestler, bodybuilder, and motivational speaker.

Again, I'm reading this from Wikipedia.

He wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation, now known as World Wrestling Entertainment from 1987 to 1992, where he was a WWF Intercontinental Champion and a WWF Champion.