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RIP Ultimate Warrior.

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mizzou said:
he had some completely bizarre beleifs, if you ever watched his youtube channel. He thought the body never needed "off" days to recover. he said he never had an off day, and felt it was bullshit.

he felt the need to be driven 100% all the time, never stopping.
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Well...that worked out well.
 
marmasatt said:
That's the first thing I thought, lol. But I guess that was an urban legend that there were actually 2 Ultimate Warriors. Was he sick with something? I imagine we may find out in the upcoming weeks that he may have been sick and Vince (or whomever it is now) gave him one last hurrah. If not, queue the conspiracy theories please. Perhaps Vince game him one last hurrah and then had him poisoned. I don't watch wrestling but curious that he made an appearance after being gone 20 yrs and then died 3 days later.
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The first Ultimate Warrior died a long ass time ago. He was responsible for making the character famous (the crazy guy). The dude who died the other day took up the mantle of being Ultimate Warrior after the first guy's death and played the character longer than the original actor did.
 
Loved him as a kid but I honestly thought he'd died several years ago.

KT
 
ThinClient said:
The first Ultimate Warrior died a long ass time ago. He was responsible for making the character famous (the crazy guy). The dude who died the other day took up the mantle of being Ultimate Warrior after the first guy's death and played the character longer than the original actor did.
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You really believe this ? Um no.......!
That statement is wrong on many levels.
The Warrior that just died, is the same Warrior that wrestled Hogan in Wrestlemania 6.
 
UW turned into a nut case, but that doesn't change how much I loved him back in the late 80's early 90's of my youth. I was so pumped when WCW brought him back in ~1998 to fued with Hogan. The build up was great. Then, they actually brought him back, and executed it very poorly. My elation was quickly devated by the horrible booking of WCW back then.
 
Triumph said:
UW turned into a nut case, but that doesn't change how much I loved him back in the late 80's early 90's of my youth. I was so pumped when WCW brought him back in ~1998 to fued with Hogan. The build up was great. Then, they actually brought him back, and executed it very poorly. My elation was quickly devated by the horrible booking of WCW back then.
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turned? he was always a nut case. some of his promos were just insane.

"snarff I come from the 5th planet from teh great sun in the ...system! snarff..I have come to challange the greatest warriors for supremacy "snarff" teh god moomoo directed me to the WWF to drive Hogan into the ground "snarf"

and on and on....the guy was insane.
 
MentalIlness said:
You really believe this ? Um no.......!
That statement is wrong on many levels.
The Warrior that just died, is the same Warrior that wrestled Hogan in Wrestlemania 6.
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Yes the real "Ultimate Warrior" -the original one- died a long time ago.

It's not my fault that you're clinging to WWF being so real that you refuse to believe that they substituted actors to continue the character going just to make money off of people like you who still think it's real. LOL

IT'S STILL REAL TO ME, DAMMIT
 
Drako said:
Wow, the dude is younger than me, I thought he was older. :hmm:

It's sad that the WWE site does not even use his real name. :|
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James Brian Hellwig

Hellwig legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993 which is also the last name of his wife and children. Warrior retired from professional wrestling in 1999 and embarked on a public speaking career.

Warrior died on April 8, 2014. He had been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 5, appeared at WrestleMania XXX on April 6, and made his first Raw appearance in 18 years on April 7, one day before his death.[67] According to TMZ, Warrior collapsed at 5:50 p.m. (PDT) while walking to his car with his wife in Arizona outside of their hotel. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
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Man I forgot how big he was. Trip down WWF nostalgia lane on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbjNNrO8CeM

And how are people still claiming there was more than one Ultimate Warrior? I mean we were just kids, (and I believed it too) but do a little research. I've been trying for an hour and I can't find anything that DOES prove there was more than one.

From Bleacher Report

5 Wrestling Conspiracies That Won't Go Away

Hey all right! The Ultimate Warrior is back!

Wait a second... he looks slightly less muscular, and his hair is blonde!

The only logical explanation is that he must have died, and the WWF never told us and decided to re-cast him with someone that otherwise looks exactly like him, and wrestles just as terrible as he ever did!

Poor Jim Hellwig, or should I say Warrior (after all, he did legally change his name to that)?

Part of what makes this rumor so enduring is how creepy it is.

Supposedly, when Warrior disappeared from the WWF in 1991, and returned in 1992, fans thought he looked different. A rumor started that he died. WWF had clearly found some big guy, slapped face paint on him and taught him how to suck at wrestling.

Even in the age of the Internet, it still remains one of wrestling most enduring conspiracies.
 
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