Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig <16 June 1959 - April 8, 2014) is an American professional wrestler, most notably wrestling under the name of The Ultimate Warrior for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1987 to 1991 and again in 1992 and 1996. During 1998 in the World Championship Wrestling Championships (WCW), he was known as The Warrior b>. Prior to WWF, he was known in the World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) as the Dingo Warrior .
While at WWF, Warrior won the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight title twice and won the WWF Heavyweight World Championships once when he pinned Hulk Hogan at the main event at WrestleMania VI in Toronto, making him the first wrestler to hold both titles simultaneously. He retired from professional wrestling in 1998 and started his public speaking career, but grapples with one final game in Spain in 2008.
The Warrior died on April 8, 2014, at the age of 54 years in Scottsdale, Arizona. Over the previous three days, he has been inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, appearing on WrestleMania XXX and making his last public appearance on Raw , returning to promotion after a fierce separation since 1996.
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Warrior was born in 1959 as James Brian Hellwig, in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He is the eldest of five children and raised by his mother (along with, later, his stepfather) after his father left his family when he was 12 years old. His father died at the age of 57 and a grandfather died at the age of 52 years. The family moved to Indiana, where he graduated from Veedersburg Fountain Junior High School and attended Indiana State University for a year.
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Bodybuilding career
Prior to a career in professional wrestling, Hellwig was an amateur bodybuilder, competing in a number of NPC contests and winning the 1984 NPC Georgia crown. Hellwig began training with weights when he was 11 years old and described himself as "an insecure little boy who does not like sports any". He moved to California where, after seeing bodybuilder Robby Robinson, he decided to take the sport. His first contest took place in Florida, where he was placed in 5th position. Later, when he attended Life University in Marietta, Georgia, he won the Atlanta Junior contest and was ranked fifth in the AAU Collegiate 1981 America. In 1983, he won the AAU Coastal USA, before taking the title Mr. Georgia in the following year. His last bodybuilding contest was Junior USA in 1985, which was won by IFBB Pro's future, Ron Love. Hellwig finished 5th.
In 1985, after spending six weeks in California training for a bodybuilding contest, he was invited to join a group of bodybuilders - Garland Donoho, Mark Miller, and Steve Borden - to form a professional wrestling team. The soldier accepted the invitation and left his bodybuilding career and his plan to become a chiropractor.
Professional wrestling career
Early career (1985-1986)
Hellwig started his professional wrestling career as Jim "Justice" Hellwig from Powerteam USA, a bodybuilding group coached by Red Bastien and Rick Bassman.
Later, they grapple as Freedom Fighter (Hellwig known as Justice and Borden is called Flash) at the Memphis' Wrestling Association Memphis under the manager of Dutch Mantel. Hellwig and Steve Borden (later successful as "Sting"), formed a tag team called The Blade Runners; Hellwig is "Blade Runner Rock" and Borden is "Blade Runner Flash". Debuting at the Tennessee, Tennessee-based Association of Weed Competition (CWA), run by Jerry Jarrett, the team played the baby's face initially, but fans are really slow to take to the giant duo in an area that has featured sympathetic "tag team good guys" Rock 'n' Roll Express and The Fabulous Ones.
They quickly turned as The Blade Runners. The Blade Runners went on to grapple with the promotion of the South-Central Wrest, which became the Universal Wrestling Federation (UWF) in 1986. According to Joseph Laurinaitis (aka Road Warrior Animal), UWF owner Bill Watts created Blade Runners and the goal was to make them parody of The Road Warriors. They were part of Hotstuff International group Eddie Gilbert, before disbanding in 1986 when Hellwig left the UWF.
World's Championship Wrestling (1986-1987) In 1986, Warrior made its debut in the World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) promotion in Dallas, Texas, where he wrestled with $ 50 a night. He has stated that he adopted the name of the "Dingo Warrior" ring after a member of the WCCW dressing room said that he looked like "a soldier". This is contrary to the claims made by Road Warrior Animal, stating that Dingo Warrior is a recreation of the Warrior Blade Runner gimmick and is an attempt to present itself as a descendant of The Road Warriors.
Initially the Warrior still heels in the area, which is run by Gary Hart, although he cheered during a heel versus heel feud with WCWW World Heavyweight Champion Rick Rude after both fell out during a tag match. After switching managers to Percival Pringle III, the Warrior changed the babyface permanently after quarreling with fellow Pringle proteges Buzz Sawyer and Matt Borne after a tag match of six people. Warrior formed a tag team with Lance Von Erich, and the duo started competing for World Tag Team Championship WCWA. On November 17, 1986, Warrior and Von Erich defeated Master Gee (replacing champion Buzz Sawyer) and Matt Borne to win the title. They held the Championship until December 1 of that year, when they lost to Al Madril and Brian Adias.
In 1987, Warrior began competing for the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship, losing to Bob Bradley in the final of the tournament on 12 January. He won the title from Bradley on February 2 of that year. The title was held in April 1987 after the Warrior left the WCCW. He was restored as champion after his return, but emptied once again after withdrawing from the WCCW to join the World Wrestling Federation, where he adopted the ring name of The Ultimate Warrior. Soldiers began appearing at home events in June and were initially billed as The Dingo Warrior in a card promo by Gene Okerlund, but soon after his name was changed. There is a dispute over who created the Ultimate Warrior name. Bruce Prichard states that Vince McMahon does not know what a Dingo Warrior is, but because there are "Modern Day Warriors", Kerry von Erich and The Road Warriors there can be no one more simple soldier but the main warrior. The soldier claimed after one of his first matches, McMahon asked him to do a pretend promo. That's where Vince says we want you to do Soldiers, but we do not want Dingo. The soldier then proceeds to cut the promo and declares that he is not this warrior or the soldier, he is The Ultimate Warrior.
Between 1987 and 1989, he appeared in several TV commercials for Westway Ford, a car dealer in Irving, Texas. The Warrior interacts in wrestling costumes filled with weird Westway characters, "Mean Joe Greed."
World Wrestling Federation (1987-1992)
Pushing early (1987-1988)
Hellwig joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1987. First competed at home events under his Dingo Warrior moniker, he defeated a number of workers, including Steve Lombardi, Barry Horowitz and Mike Sharpe. He made his television debut as The Ultimate Warrior on the October 25th episode of Wrestling Challenge, where he defeated another worker, Terry Gibbs. The Ultimate Warrior became famous for its high-energy entrance, which featured it running into the arena at full speed, breaking into the ring, and roughly shaking the ropes up and down. He is also known for his distinctive face pattern. After a few months of work, he pinned for the first time at WWF by fellow WWF rookie/rival future Rick Rude on December 28, 1987. In early 1988, Warrior entered his first WWF feud with fellow Hercules Hernandez strongman. Both of them came face to face on February 7, 1988 at the Wrestling Challenge, where Hercules was disqualified for wearing his shirt chain. The soldier then grabbed the chain handle and in the middle of the tug of war on it, the chain broke. This led to a match at WrestleMania IV, where the Warrior won in its pay-per-view debut. The Warrior lost twice by pinfall shortly thereafter: net for AndrÃÆ' Â © the Giant in April in Italy, and for Dino Bravo, who put his foot on the rope for leverage, in Montreal in June. In the summer of 1988, he wrestled with Bobby Heenan in a series of civet suit matches, in which the Warrior was won by a sleeping detention.
Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion (1988-1990)
Less than a year after his WWF television debut, Warrior, a surprise substitute for the injured Brutus Beefcake, won the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, beating The Honky Tonk Man in a 27-second squash game at the inaugural SummerSlam on August 29, 1988. The champion, he captain of the team at Survivor Series '88, where he was the only survivor, pinning Outlaw Ron Bass and Greg Valentine in a row to win the game for his team.
When 1989 began, the Warrior entered a feud with Rick Rude over the Intercontinental title. The feud was triggered at Rumble Royal 1989, where the two met in a "super posedown". After the Warrior drew support from the audience directly in assessing their contest, Rude attacked the Warrior and strangled him with a steel rod. This led the championship match at WrestleMania V, where Rude pinned Warrior to win the title with the help of his manager Bobby Heenan, who hold the foot Warrior from outside the ring as he was pinned. At SummerSlam, the Warrior beat Rude to retake the title and become the Intercontinental Heavyweight Class Champion twice. Soldiers then began a feud with AndrÃÆ' Â © Giant, leading to a number of events in the house where the Warrior beat Andre in a short squash match, set up as a Warrior main event level talent. The feud culminated in the Survivor Series where two captains of the opposing team. Warrior get rid of AndrÃÆ'Â © by dropping it out of the ring, where he counted. The Warrior once again became the only survivor, pinning Arn Anderson and Bobby Heenan to win the game.
WWF World Heavyweight Champion (1990-1991)
The Warrior received a boost as WWF's main heir to Hulk Hogan, who remained the biggest star wrestling throughout the 1980s. After several confrontations with Hogan, especially at Royal Rumble in 1990, Warrior was written as a Hogan opponent at the main event for WrestleMania VI at SkyDome in Toronto. The match was billed as "The Ultimate Challenge", as both Hogan's WWF World Heavyweight Championship and Warrior's Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship are at stake. The Warrior pinned Hogan after Warrior Splash became the only wrestler holding both championships simultaneously. The Warrior emptied the Intercontinental Championship (which Mr. Perfect won in the tournament), because WWF rules forbid wrestlers to hold both titles.
After WrestleMania, the Warrior successfully defended the championship against Haku, Mr. Perfect and Ted DiBiase. At SummerSlam, he retained the title over Rick Rude in a steel cage game. "Macho Man" Randy Savage was also introduced as a potential rival after interfering in the title game of the Main Match by DiBiase's orders.
The Warrior was put into a feud between The Legion of Doom and Demolition, leading to victory for Warrior and LOD in a six-tag team match at home events as well as Oct. 13, 1990 premieres of Saturday's Events. The feud culminated in the Survivor Series, where The Warriors (Ultimate Warrior, LOD and Kerry Von Erich) defeated The Perfect Team (Mr. Perfect and Demolition). For the third year in a row, the Warrior is the only survivor for his team. He then survived the "Grand Finale Match of Survival" with Hulk Hogan.
In January 1991, Soldiers faced Sergeant. The Royal Rumble Massacre. The disruption of the massacre at the time was a traitor who had betrayed America by aligning himself with an Iraqi army general (kayfabe), General Adnan. In the context of the Gulf War, this made Slaughter one of the most hated heels of the day. After rejecting a previous request to give the title of a shot to Savage, Sensational Sherri interrupted herself in a Soldiers championship game to distract her. His disturbance eventually led to a sneak attack on Savage, where he attacked the Soldiers overhead with an iron rod and allowed Slaughter to pin the Warrior to win the title. The Warrior went on to enmity with Savage, and the rivalry culminated in the "Career Ended" game at WrestleMania VII won by Soldiers, forcing Savage to retire.
Various feuds and departures (1991-1992)
The next chapter of the Warrior career was a meeting with The Undertaker, after Undertaker and his manager, Paul Bearer, locked the Warrior inside the coffin on the Bearer's Parlor Funeral Parlor set. WWF officers work hard to break open coffins, finally revealing a seemingly lifeless body of Warrior, and a torn fabric inside a coffin that shows a desperate Soldier struggle to get out. Soldiers are finally revived by officials who do CPR. This causes Jake "The Snake" Roberts offers to give the Warrior a "knowledge of the dark side" to prepare Soldiers for revenge on the Undertaker. This involves Roberts giving the Warrior three "tests" featured on WWF TV in a few consecutive weeks. For the first test, Roberts locks the Warrior inside the coffin for a second time.
For the second test, the Warrior was "buried alive" by Roberts. For the third test, the Warrior enters a room full of snakes, to find the "answer" in the crate in the center of the room. Waiting in the crate is a Cobra Spitting, which bites the Warrior on his face. When the Warrior weakened from the effects of the cobra strike, Roberts made a heel change and joined the Undertaker and Paul Bearer, revealing the three worked together so far. Roberts then said, "Never trust a snake." The stage is now prepared for the feud between Warrior and Roberts. The dispute never happened, because the Warrior was involved in alleged pay dispute with WWF owner Vince McMahon over the main SummerSlam event, in which Warrior teamed up with Hulk Hogan in a handicap match against Sgt. Slaughter, Colonel Mustafa, and General Adnan.
On July 10, 1991, the Soldiers sent a letter to Vince McMahon asking for inclusion in his new WWF contract. He wanted $ 550,000 to perform at WrestleMania VII, guaranteed number of working days, travel accommodation, and higher percentage of merchandise sales. He says that $ 550,000 is "fair", and that "[Soldier] means more or more for the show than Hulk [Hogan]". He ended his letter with "Whatever your decision, I can and will live with him." Until then I stayed home with caring people.
WWF responded on July 13, approving $ 550,000 for WrestleMania VII, a higher royalty rate and promising no other WWF players to be paid higher than him in paying WWF per view. Vince McMahon personally ended the letter by saying, "I would like to express my deepest appreciation and admiration for you as a player, as a member of the WWF family, as a man, and as a friend of mine."
After the annual WWF SummerSlam event, Warriors were given a letter dated August 26, 1991, from Vince McMahon, saying the Warrior was suspended immediately effective. Among other things, McMahon said, "You threaten to stay home, so do not even appear on SummerSlam's main summer payment event on Titan I have no choice but to approve your overly high demands.This is a serious mistake on the part of You. ". McMahon then testified that the only reason the company approved the contract was "to agree to his temporary demands" to ensure the Warrior will be performing at the SummerSlam event.
Upon receiving the letter, the Warrior rejects the suspension and leaves the WWF. The fighters officially sent a letter of resignation to WWF in October 1991. WWF refused to receive the letter since the Warrior was under contract until September 1992.
With Hulk Hogan leaving WWF between mid 1992 and early 1993, McMahon contacted the Warrior about his return. He made his comeback in WrestleMania VIII (to save Hulk Hogan from a blow in the hands of Sid Justice and Papa Shango). Upon his return, he receives a level of creative control over his ordering. One of the plot involving Papa Shango, a "dukun doctor", throws a spell into the Warrior, causing him to jerk and vomit in a very strange color, though the Warrior says he hates the story and has no control over it. The Warrior was booked for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship match against then champion, "Macho Man" Randy Savage at SummerSlam in August 1992. The Warrior won the game with countout, but not the title. In November 1992, Warrior was scheduled to join Savage (as The Ultimate Maniacs) to face Ric Flair and Razor Ramon in the Survivor Series. A few weeks before the event, the Warrior was released for reasons disputed and replaced by Mr. Perfect.
The original plan to return 1992 was to give him another chance with WWF World Heavyweight Championship. However, its comeback coincides with the government's crackdown on steroids in wrestling. The Warrior is recognized as a heavy user of steroids during his professional wrestling career. In his book Sex, Lies and Headlocks, ESPN author Shaun Assael states that Canadian chemist Mauro Di Pasquale, who was hired in June to monitor WWF's new drug testing program and is known for being hard on anyone. who failed the drug test, nailed the Soldier to steroid use in September and succeeded in persuading McMahon, who was under federal supervision at the time to illegally allegedly supply steroids to some of his wrestlers, to release the Warrior from the company. However, in the documentary film Warrior: The Ultimate Legend, Vince McMahon claims that the Warrior is experimenting with growth hormones that lead to his departure; The warrior was suspended and, instead, missed the date when he was offended by McMahon's actions. Soldiers left the company on November 21, 1992.
Semi-retired (1992-1996)
Between November 1992 and July 1995, the Warrior was semi-retired. During his time away from WWF, Warrior opened the short-lived Warrior University, a professional wrestling school based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In December 1992, he wrestled as a Dingo Warrior against Hercules Hernandez in Billerica, Massachusetts, for Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation of Wrestling.
In April 1993, he toured Europe for the World Wrestlings Superstars and in the same year he also played the "swordsman" role in the action film Firepower.
In July 1995, he returned to the ring for the promotion of the National Wrestling Conference (NWC) in Las Vegas, defeating The Honky Tonk Man. He has also wrestled with a European tour for the promotion of Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) Otto Wanz.
On February 10, 1996, he defeated Jimmy Garvin in an independent show at Princeton, West Virginia. Second return to WWF (1996)
Warrior returned to WWF on March 31, 1996, beating Hunter Hearst Helmsley in WrestleMania XII. She made her first appearance on Monday Night Raw on April 8, where she gave in-ring interviews and praised the "voice" of "warriors" (her name was for members of the WWF audience) for her return; he was later interrupted by Goldust. Warrior challenged to Goldust Intercontinental Championship in In Your House 7; The Warrior wins the match with countout, but does not win the title. The next night on Monday Night Rounds, Soldiers defeated Isaac Yankem, DDS. A rematch with Intercontinental Champion Goldust, on the May 27th episode of the show, ended with a double count, thus eliminating the two men from the tournament and finally giving Vader good-bye to the semi-finals. Warrior defeated Jerry Lawler in King of the Ring, and defeated Owen Hart with a disqualification on the July 8th episode of Monday Night Raw.
The Warrior is scheduled to work with Shawn Michaels and Ahmed Johnson to face Owen Hart, Davey Boy Smith, and Vader in In Your House at the end of the month, but WWF terminates the Warrior contract when he spends some home events and takes time off allegedly grieving his father's death. WWF owner Vince McMahon claims that the Warrior has never seen his father in ten years and is not very concerned about him; Therefore, it does not take the Warrior reason to miss a home event with a face value. The soldier refuted McMahon's explanation, claiming that the real reason why he did not show those events was a breach of contract by McMahon, where WWF sold Warrior merchandise without giving him a percentage. He was replaced by Sycho Sid in Your House 9.
World Championships Wrestling and retirement (1998)
WCW signed the Warrior in 1998. He formed a New World order that opposed the opposition of Hulk Hogan (nWo): "One Warrior Nation". The acronym oWn (One Warrior Nation) is a play on the name of nWo. Key points of the story include kidnapping Soldiers and "transforming" Pupils and examples of "magic smoke" that often strikes all nWo members except Hollywood Hogan and covers the Soldier's movements through the trapdoor in the ring. The trapdoor was responsible for nearly paralyzing Davey Boy Smith, when he awkwardly fell on it during a game in Fall Brawl 98.
The Warrior only participated in three matches at WCW. The first was a WarGames game in Fall Brawl, where he competed as a WCW Team member, competing against eight other wrestlers for one occasion at Goldberg's WCW World Heavyweight Championship in Halloween Havoc. Diamond Dallas Page wins the game by pinning Stevie Ray. At Monday Nitro , he teamed up with Sting to defeat Hogan and Bret Hart with disqualification, a match in which he had little participation; he is marked for a short exchange with Hart, then alone chases some nWo members down the driveway, whipping them with a Hogan belt. The third is his loss to Hogan in Halloween Havoc, in what Eric Bischoff considers to be one of the worst-ever wrestling matches ever. In a Havoc Halloween game, maneuvering time and bad blow; the arm injury the Warrior receives in WarGames further slows its action. Attempts to "blind" Soldiers with fireballs backfire when Hogan faces complications triggering a piece of flash paper, causing a fire to rise on Hogan's face instead. The match ended when Horace Hogan hit the Warrior in the back with the seat while Eric Bischoff referee Nick Patrick interrupted. Hogan then prints pinfall.
WCW claims that efforts were made to rescue the storyline although the Warrior has claimed in interviews and the appearance of the convention that the only reason he was brought back so that Hogan can get a victory over the Warrior in exchange for the work of Hogan WrestleMania. The last appearance of Warrior on WCW was on episode 9 November 1998 from Monday Nitro when she came to rescue The Disciple who was being attacked by a member of The nWo. The Warrior retired from wrestling that year.
Nu-Wrestling Evolution (2008)
In 1986, Warrior made its debut in the World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW) promotion in Dallas, Texas, where he wrestled with $ 50 a night. He has stated that he adopted the name of the "Dingo Warrior" ring after a member of the WCCW dressing room said that he looked like "a soldier". This is contrary to the claims made by Road Warrior Animal, stating that Dingo Warrior is a recreation of the Warrior Blade Runner gimmick and is an attempt to present itself as a descendant of The Road Warriors.
Initially the Warrior still heels in the area, which is run by Gary Hart, although he cheered during a heel versus heel feud with WCWW World Heavyweight Champion Rick Rude after both fell out during a tag match. After switching managers to Percival Pringle III, the Warrior changed the babyface permanently after quarreling with fellow Pringle proteges Buzz Sawyer and Matt Borne after a tag match of six people. Warrior formed a tag team with Lance Von Erich, and the duo started competing for World Tag Team Championship WCWA. On November 17, 1986, Warrior and Von Erich defeated Master Gee (replacing champion Buzz Sawyer) and Matt Borne to win the title. They held the Championship until December 1 of that year, when they lost to Al Madril and Brian Adias.
In 1987, Warrior began competing for the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship, losing to Bob Bradley in the final of the tournament on 12 January. He won the title from Bradley on February 2 of that year. The title was held in April 1987 after the Warrior left the WCCW. He was restored as champion after his return, but emptied once again after withdrawing from the WCCW to join the World Wrestling Federation, where he adopted the ring name of The Ultimate Warrior. Soldiers began appearing at home events in June and were initially billed as The Dingo Warrior in a card promo by Gene Okerlund, but soon after his name was changed. There is a dispute over who created the Ultimate Warrior name. Bruce Prichard states that Vince McMahon does not know what a Dingo Warrior is, but because there are "Modern Day Warriors", Kerry von Erich and The Road Warriors there can be no one more simple soldier but the main warrior. The soldier claimed after one of his first matches, McMahon asked him to do a pretend promo. That's where Vince says we want you to do Soldiers, but we do not want Dingo. The soldier then proceeds to cut the promo and declares that he is not this warrior or the soldier, he is The Ultimate Warrior.
Between 1987 and 1989, he appeared in several TV commercials for Westway Ford, a car dealer in Irving, Texas. The Warrior interacts in wrestling costumes filled with weird Westway characters, "Mean Joe Greed."
World Wrestling Federation (1987-1992)
Pushing early (1987-1988)
Hellwig joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in June 1987. First competed at home events under his Dingo Warrior moniker, he defeated a number of workers, including Steve Lombardi, Barry Horowitz and Mike Sharpe. He made his television debut as The Ultimate Warrior on the October 25th episode of Wrestling Challenge, where he defeated another worker, Terry Gibbs. The Ultimate Warrior became famous for its high-energy entrance, which featured it running into the arena at full speed, breaking into the ring, and roughly shaking the ropes up and down. He is also known for his distinctive face pattern. After a few months of work, he pinned for the first time at WWF by fellow WWF rookie/rival future Rick Rude on December 28, 1987. In early 1988, Warrior entered his first WWF feud with fellow Hercules Hernandez strongman. Both of them came face to face on February 7, 1988 at the Wrestling Challenge, where Hercules was disqualified for wearing his shirt chain. The soldier then grabbed the chain handle and in the middle of the tug of war on it, the chain broke. This led to a match at WrestleMania IV, where the Warrior won in its pay-per-view debut. The Warrior lost twice by pinfall shortly thereafter: net for AndrÃÆ' Â © the Giant in April in Italy, and for Dino Bravo, who put his foot on the rope for leverage, in Montreal in June. In the summer of 1988, he wrestled with Bobby Heenan in a series of civet suit matches, in which the Warrior was won by a sleeping detention.
Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion (1988-1990)
Less than a year after his WWF television debut, Warrior, a surprise substitute for the injured Brutus Beefcake, won the Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship, beating The Honky Tonk Man in a 27-second squash game at the inaugural SummerSlam on August 29, 1988. The champion, he captain of the team at Survivor Series '88, where he was the only survivor, pinning Outlaw Ron Bass and Greg Valentine in a row to win the game for his team.
When 1989 began, the Warrior entered a feud with Rick Rude over the Intercontinental title. The feud was triggered at Rumble Royal 1989, where the two met in a "super posedown". After the Warrior drew support from the audience directly in assessing their contest, Rude attacked the Warrior and strangled him with a steel rod. This led the championship match at WrestleMania V, where Rude pinned Warrior to win the title with the help of his manager Bobby Heenan, who hold the foot Warrior from outside the ring as he was pinned. At SummerSlam, the Warrior beat Rude to retake the title and become the Intercontinental Heavyweight Class Champion twice. Soldiers then began a feud with AndrÃÆ' Â © Giant, leading to a number of events in the house where the Warrior beat Andre in a short squash match, set up as a Warrior main event level talent. The feud culminated in the Survivor Series where two captains of the opposing team. Warrior get rid of AndrÃÆ'Â © by dropping it out of the ring, where he counted. The Warrior once again became the only survivor, pinning Arn Anderson and Bobby Heenan to win the game.
WWF World Heavyweight Champion (1990-1991)
The Warrior received a boost as WWF's main heir to Hulk Hogan, who remained the biggest star wrestling throughout the 1980s. After several confrontations with Hogan, especially at Royal Rumble in 1990, Warrior was written as a Hogan opponent at the main event for WrestleMania VI at SkyDome in Toronto. The match was billed as "The Ultimate Challenge", as both Hogan's WWF World Heavyweight Championship and Warrior's Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship are at stake. The Warrior pinned Hogan after Warrior Splash became the only wrestler holding both championships simultaneously. The Warrior emptied the Intercontinental Championship (which Mr. Perfect won in the tournament), because WWF rules forbid wrestlers to hold both titles.
After WrestleMania, the Warrior successfully defended the championship against Haku, Mr. Perfect and Ted DiBiase. At SummerSlam, he retained the title over Rick Rude in a steel cage game. "Macho Man" Randy Savage was also introduced as a potential rival after interfering in the title game of the Main Match by DiBiase's orders.
The Warrior was put into a feud between The Legion of Doom and Demolition, leading to victory for Warrior and LOD in a six-tag team match at home events as well as Oct. 13, 1990 premieres of Saturday's Events. The feud culminated in the Survivor Series, where The Warriors (Ultimate Warrior, LOD and Kerry Von Erich) defeated The Perfect Team (Mr. Perfect and Demolition). For the third year in a row, the Warrior is the only survivor for his team. He then survived the "Grand Finale Match of Survival" with Hulk Hogan.
In January 1991, Soldiers faced Sergeant. The Royal Rumble Massacre. The disruption of the massacre at the time was a traitor who had betrayed America by aligning himself with an Iraqi army general (kayfabe), General Adnan. In the context of the Gulf War, this made Slaughter one of the most hated heels of the day. After rejecting a previous request to give the title of a shot to Savage, Sensational Sherri interrupted herself in a Soldiers championship game to distract her. His disturbance eventually led to a sneak attack on Savage, where he attacked the Soldiers overhead with an iron rod and allowed Slaughter to pin the Warrior to win the title. The Warrior went on to enmity with Savage, and the rivalry culminated in the "Career Ended" game at WrestleMania VII won by Soldiers, forcing Savage to retire.
Various feuds and departures (1991-1992)
The next chapter of the Warrior career was a meeting with The Undertaker, after Undertaker and his manager, Paul Bearer, locked the Warrior inside the coffin on the Bearer's Parlor Funeral Parlor set. WWF officers work hard to break open coffins, finally revealing a seemingly lifeless body of Warrior, and a torn fabric inside a coffin that shows a desperate Soldier struggle to get out. Soldiers are finally revived by officials who do CPR. This causes Jake "The Snake" Roberts offers to give the Warrior a "knowledge of the dark side" to prepare Soldiers for revenge on the Undertaker. This involves Roberts giving the Warrior three "tests" featured on WWF TV in a few consecutive weeks. For the first test, Roberts locks the Warrior inside the coffin for a second time.
For the second test, the Warrior was "buried alive" by Roberts. For the third test, the Warrior enters a room full of snakes, to find the "answer" in the crate in the center of the room. Waiting in the crate is a Cobra Spitting, which bites the Warrior on his face. When the Warrior weakened from the effects of the cobra strike, Roberts made a heel change and joined the Undertaker and Paul Bearer, revealing the three worked together so far. Roberts then said, "Never trust a snake." The stage is now prepared for the feud between Warrior and Roberts. The dispute never happened, because the Warrior was involved in alleged pay dispute with WWF owner Vince McMahon over the main SummerSlam event, in which Warrior teamed up with Hulk Hogan in a handicap match against Sgt. Slaughter, Colonel Mustafa, and General Adnan.
On July 10, 1991, the Soldiers sent a letter to Vince McMahon asking for inclusion in his new WWF contract. He wanted $ 550,000 to perform at WrestleMania VII, guaranteed number of working days, travel accommodation, and higher percentage of merchandise sales. He says that $ 550,000 is "fair", and that "[Soldier] means more or more for the show than Hulk [Hogan]". He ended his letter with "Whatever your decision, I can and will live with him." Until then I stayed home with caring people.
WWF responded on July 13, approving $ 550,000 for WrestleMania VII, a higher royalty rate and promising no other WWF players to be paid higher than him in paying WWF per view. Vince McMahon personally ended the letter by saying, "I would like to express my deepest appreciation and admiration for you as a player, as a member of the WWF family, as a man, and as a friend of mine."
After the annual WWF SummerSlam event, Warriors were given a letter dated August 26, 1991, from Vince McMahon, saying the Warrior was suspended immediately effective. Among other things, McMahon said, "You threaten to stay home, so do not even appear on SummerSlam's main summer payment event on Titan I have no choice but to approve your overly high demands.This is a serious mistake on the part of You. ". McMahon then testified that the only reason the company approved the contract was "to agree to his temporary demands" to ensure the Warrior will be performing at the SummerSlam event.
Upon receiving the letter, the Warrior rejects the suspension and leaves the WWF. The fighters officially sent a letter of resignation to WWF in October 1991. WWF refused to receive the letter since the Warrior was under contract until September 1992.
With Hulk Hogan leaving WWF between mid 1992 and early 1993, McMahon contacted the Warrior about his return. He made his comeback in WrestleMania VIII (to save Hulk Hogan from a blow in the hands of Sid Justice and Papa Shango). Upon his return, he receives a level of creative control over his ordering. One of the plot involving Papa Shango, a "dukun doctor", throws a spell into the Warrior, causing him to jerk and vomit in a very strange color, though the Warrior says he hates the story and has no control over it. The Warrior was booked for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship match against then champion, "Macho Man" Randy Savage at SummerSlam in August 1992. The Warrior won the game with countout, but not the title. In November 1992, Warrior was scheduled to join Savage (as The Ultimate Maniacs) to face Ric Flair and Razor Ramon in the Survivor Series. A few weeks before the event, the Warrior was released for reasons disputed and replaced by Mr. Perfect.
The original plan to return 1992 was to give him another chance with WWF World Heavyweight Championship. However, its comeback coincides with the government's crackdown on steroids in wrestling. The Warrior is recognized as a heavy user of steroids during his professional wrestling career. In his book Sex, Lies and Headlocks, ESPN author Shaun Assael states that Canadian chemist Mauro Di Pasquale, who was hired in June to monitor WWF's new drug testing program and is known for being hard on anyone. who failed the drug test, nailed the Soldier to steroid use in September and succeeded in persuading McMahon, who was under federal supervision at the time to illegally allegedly supply steroids to some of his wrestlers, to release the Warrior from the company. However, in the documentary film Warrior: The Ultimate Legend, Vince McMahon claims that the Warrior is experimenting with growth hormones that lead to his departure; The warrior was suspended and, instead, missed the date when he was offended by McMahon's actions. Soldiers left the company on November 21, 1992.
Semi-retired (1992-1996)
Between November 1992 and July 1995, the Warrior was semi-retired. During his time away from WWF, Warrior opened the short-lived Warrior University, a professional wrestling school based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
In December 1992, he wrestled as a Dingo Warrior against Hercules Hernandez in Billerica, Massachusetts, for Kowalski's International Wrestling Federation of Wrestling.
In April 1993, he toured Europe for the World Wrestlings Superstars and in the same year he also played the "swordsman" role in the action film Firepower.
In July 1995, he returned to the ring for the promotion of the National Wrestling Conference (NWC) in Las Vegas, defeating The Honky Tonk Man. He has also wrestled with a European tour for the promotion of Catch Wrestling Association (CWA) Otto Wanz.
On February 10, 1996, he defeated Jimmy Garvin in an independent show at Princeton, West Virginia. Second return to WWF (1996)
After retiring in 1999, Warrior only wrestled one match after that in 2008, against Orlando Jordan in Barcelona, ​​Spain. The Warrior won the game and then the Nu-Wrestling Evolution Heavy World Championship, but then immediately vacated the title.
WWE Hall of Fame (2013-2014)
On February 20, 2013, Warrior confirmed on his official YouTube channel that he will appear on WrestleMania 29 on April 7, 2013. In the same clip he spoke positively about Vince McMahon for the first time on his channel. His performance was so popular that the second ticket ticket had to be booked.
On July 15, 2013, the Warrior is featured in the game footage WWE 2K14 and reveals that she is on the list as a pre-order bonus.
On April 5, 2014, The Ultimate Warrior was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame Class 2014. The next day, Warrior appeared on WrestleMania XXX, and the following night gave promo on Raw , the first appearance on the show since the match His last WWF TV was in 1996. During what turned out to be his last public appearance, Warrior gave a speech to past fans and wrestlers and was present as his Ultimate Warrior character.
Personal life
Warrior married Shari Lynn Tyree on October 2, 1982. They remained together for the majority of WWF Warrior's career before divorcing on March 22, 1991, two days before WrestleMania VII. The soldiers married a second time to Dana Viale on January 31, 1999. They have two daughters, Indiana (2000) and Mattigan (December 16, 2002).
Rumor of death
The soldier returns to WWF at WrestleMania VIII after nearly eight months of hiatus since SummerSlam 1991. Due to the drastic changes in his appearance (shorter, blond hair and smaller physical), rumors began to circulate that new wrestlers played the role. At the time it was rumored to be Kerry Von Erich, who was under contract at the time. Some say the Warrior died of liver failure because of years of steroid abuse or that his signature arm tore his blood circulation. WWE claims that the theory that different people are back playing The Ultimate Warrior in WrestleMania VIII remains "probably the longest urban legend in WWE history". WWE announcer Tom Phillips claims that rumors may have come from Gene Okerlund's WCW Hotline and WCW's debut from Warrior doppelgÃÆ'¤nger The Renegade.
Trademarks and defamation
In 1993, Hellwig officially changed its name to Warrior mononim. This one-word name appears in all legal documents relating to Soldiers, and his children carry the Soldiers name as their legal surname.
The Warrior and WWF were involved in a series of lawsuits and legal actions in 1996 and 1998, in which both parties requested a statement that they have the character, Warrior and Ultimate Warrior, under contract and copyright law. The court ruled that the Soldiers were legally entitled to use the gimmick, costume, face paint design, and the character traits of "Soldiers".
On September 27, 2005, WWE released a DVD documentary focusing on the Warrior retrospective wrestling career, entitled Destruction of the True Warrior . The DVDs feature clips from their more famous feuds and matches together with comments from recent and mostly unflattering WWE stars, with Triple H (at this point one of the main WWE main events and Vince McMahon's husband Stephanie McMahon) adding that the loss of WrestleMania's debut against the Warrior in WrestleMania XII made him with mixed emotions, saying that the Warrior "destroyed the experience" for him and "one of the most unprofessional people" he ever did. DVD has provoked some controversy because of Warrior's own allegations of defamation by WWE against him. Initially, Warrior was asked to help with the production of the DVD, but because he refused to work with WWE (citing he did not want to be associated with their promotion), there were some hostilities between the Warrior and WWE over Warriors who claimed bias on the WWE section. In January 2006, Warrior filed another lawsuit against WWE in an Arizona court for depiction of his wrestling career on DVD's "Self-Destruction of Ultimate Warrior." On September 18, 2009, the Warrior suit in Arizona was dismissed.
Speaking public
The soldier officially retired from wrestling in 1999 and had a brief career as a conservative speaker and commentator, partnering with conservative spokesman Daniel Pinheiro, denouncing leftist politics. In one instance, he mentioned that "queering does not make the world work" during a speech at the University of Connecticut. Warrior explains the comments on his website as meaning that the human race will die if everyone is homosexual.
Write
In 1996, Warrior published a comic book entitled Warrior , presenting itself as the main character. The series is co-written with Jim Callahan and illustrated by Sharp Brothers.
The Warrior maintains a blog on his personal website entitled "Warrior's Machete", where he discusses his personal life, his personal views on politics, sexuality, patriotism, and his legacy as a wrestler, among other topics. There are many examples where the Warrior uses his blog to convey his views to his past wrestling members (Vince McMahon, Road Warrior Animal, British Bulldog, Owen Hart, Hulk Hogan, Lex Luger); historical (Martin Luther King, George Washington) or religious figure (Jesus). Soldiers describe the celebrities who made headlines on their blogs (Heath Ledger and Paris Hilton). The Warrior sometimes refers to his respect for the Founding Fathers in the United States, and also enjoys books like Homer Odyssey and James Allen As a Thinking Man. In 2012, he started selling "Weapons of Wisdom", inspirational 6ÃÆ' â € "9 sheets of watercolor paper with pictures, quotes, and doodles on them by Warrior himself. He also uses blogs to post replies to letters from fans.
Death
Warrior died on April 8, 2014 in Scottsdale, Arizona. She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 5, appearing on WrestleMania XXX on April 6th, and made her first appearance Raw in nearly 18 years on April 7, the day before her death. According to reports, the Warrior grabbed his chest and fainted at 5:50 pm. While walking to his car with his wife outside their hotel in Arizona. She was rushed to a hospital where she was declared dead at the age of 54. Warrior colleagues said that the Warrior looked weak during WrestleMania weekend, and said that he was sweating profusely and panting behind the stage.
An autopsy reveals the Warrior died of a heart attack caused by atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Legacy
Although the Warrior relationship with WWE was tense, WWE has recently recognized it as one of the company's legends. WWE describes it as "So devastating and great as any Superstar who stepped through the rope...", further saying that "The Ultimate Warrior is probably the most mysterious person who ever held the WWE Championship." In 2011, WWE called it "one of the best known wrestlers" in the history of WWE, praising its ability to draw strength from the "WWE Universe", and further talking about its influence as "bringing Hulkamania to his knees" in WrestleMania VI, "Retired Madness at WrestleMania VII and press slams many of the greatest legends of his day ". In the WWE All Stars, where the Ultimate Warrior emerges as one of the Legends, WWE states that it is "the archetype of the highest strength and intensity", and further states that "without question, Ultimate Warrior has carved his name in the WWE terrific ranks".
The Warrior featured in the line of legend Mattel Legends in Series 4 and Series 6. He was also selected as one of the six legends to be included in the Defining Moments action series. Recently he was one of a number of figures in the line of WWE Superstars Mattel action figures in various kinds called "World Champion". The Warrior next appears as a legend that can be played on WWE All Stars and WWE Legends of WrestleMania . The Ultimate Warrior is displayed in WWE 2K14 , WWE 2K15 , WWE 2K16 , and it was announced June 14, 2016 it will appear on WWE 2K17 . In 2005, WWE released the DVD The Self-Destruction of The Ultimate Warrior, which portrays the Warrior in a negative light. The Warrior claims that if WWE wants to include it in the WWE Hall of Fame, they will "tell the true story" as opposed to that described on DVD 2005. WWE released Ultimate Warrior: The Ultimate Collection, 3-DVD compilation , 540 minutes of matches and stories, depicting the Warrior much more positively, on April 1, 2014. The Warrior was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 5, 2014, the night before WrestleMania XXX. '
The Warrior has largely been estranged from his colleagues in professional wrestling in the decade before his death, and is sometimes portrayed as a bitterly bad man with various wrestling figures such as Vince McMahon, Hulk Hogan and Jake Roberts. With the Soldier's seriousness with the professional wrestling industry just before his death, some of his former enemies offered their condolences. McMahon stated that "We are all very sad because the Supreme Fighters have died, our hearts are with his wife Dana and her two daughters." Hogan said, "RIP WARRIOR.. Just love... We talk, both forgive each other, we embrace, we shake hands as we tell each other I love you, I'm so sad, God bless his beautiful family". Roberts said he was "very sad We just talked great & buried the unreasonable ax Talking to work together RIP Warrior Take our comfort peace." News of his death spread the next day on sites like Bing, Facebook, and Twitter. It was also mentioned on ABC News, HLN and CNN. Reported almost immediately after the death of the Warrior, WWE sent two senior officials to Arizona to assist his widow in handling personal items such as grocery shopping so he could focus on being with his daughters and Soldiers.
WWE rewards the Warriors on April 14th episode Raw with the respect of ten bells and videos. The WWE Network airs the ranks dubbed "Warrior Week" in Warrior memory. The formation includes a four-piece special. An episode themed The Goldbergs wrestling, which aired on May 6, is dedicated to the Warrior's memory. Film 2015 The Flintstones & amp; WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! , starring The Flintstones and WWE Superstars and Divas, is dedicated to Memory Warrior.
At UFC Fight Night 40 weights, the Lorenz Larkin fighter wears the Ultimate Warrior mask, a tassel and a bracelet as a tribute.
The Warrior was awarded the posthumous Slammy award for Return of the Year in December 2014. A WWE sponsored biography, entitled Ultimate Warrior: A Life Lived Forever: The Legend of a WWE Hero, was released in 2015.
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During the April 2014 Hall of Fame speech shortly before his death, Warrior proposed that "Jimmy Miranda Award" should be made to honor the employees behind the WWE screens. Miranda, who died in 2002, is part of the WWE merchandise department for over 20 years.
By 2015, WWE introduces the Warrior Award to those who have "demonstrated strength and perseverance firmly, and who live life with courage and compassion that embodies the persistent spirit of the True Warrior." Former WWE ring broadcaster Justin Roberts expressed his disappointment over how WWE used the Warrior Hall of Fame section to promote awards, but abandoned Warrior intentions to honor WWE employees off-screen. WWE replied, "It is painful to state that WWE and its executives have nothing but an altruistic intention in honoring Connor and his legacy with the Warrior Award", adding that "the progress of the award will be given annually to recognize other unsung heroes among the WWE workers and fans. "In 2017, no Warrior Award recipient will be a WWE employee.
In 2017, WWE began promoting the Unleash Your Warrior breast cancer awareness campaign in partnership with the Susan G. Komen Foundation, where the Soldier similarity was promoted on television by WWE wrestlers and breast cancer victims. WWE has been criticized for using the Warrior as an inspirational "symbol" of the campaign. The Pro Wrestling Torch describes the Warrior in real life after publishing "heinous, fanatic, hateful, judgmental comments about cancer victims, Hurricane Katrina victims, homosexuals, a woman who defends gay men, and even Martin Luther King Jr. "For example, when Bobby Heenan had cancer, the Warrior said," Karma is just a beautiful thing to look at. " Representatives writes that "completely dissipates his past and enhances his resemblance to the bland, corporate linguistic symbol of corporate altruism, especially for companies that at least outwardly try to appear progressive, inclusive and diverse." In response, WWE said that the Unleash Your Warrior and Warrior Award campaigns and "recognize individuals who demonstrate the strength and courage of the legendary character of WWE, The Ultimate Warrior.Every attempt to distract from this initiative mission and divert attention from honors unfortunately gets lost."
Professional wrestling spotlight
- End step
- Ultimate Splash (Running splash, either to face up or face an opponent)
- Signature is moving
- The atomic drops
- Handle double diving ax
- A drop of gorilla press
- Jump over the shoulder block
- Lifting a double choke
- Multiple clothesline
- Several leg kicks to a cornered opponent
- Scoop powerslam
- Incoming theme
- "Castle Walls" by Styx (CWA/Mid-South/UWF; 1985-1986)
- "Born to Be Wild" by Steppenwolf (WCCW; 1986)
- "The Warrior" by Scandal (WCCW/WWF; 1986-1987)
- "Unstable" by Jim Johnston (WWF/E)
- "Sticky Sweet" by MÃÆ'¶tley CrÃÆ'¼e (CWA; 1995)
- "The Ultimate Return" by AnAkA (NWE; 2008)
- "One Warrior Nation" (WCW; 1998)
Championships and achievements
- Nu-Wrestling Evolution
- NWE World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- Pro Wrestling is illustrated
- Comeback of the Year (1992)
- Feud of the Year (1991) vs. The Undertaker
- Match of the Year (1990) vs. Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania VI
- PWI rated it No. 9 of the top 500 single wrestlers at PWI 500 in 1992
- PWI rated it No. 101 of the top 500 best single wrestlers from "PWI Year" in 2003
- World Class Wrestling Association
- WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
- World Tag World Cup Championships (1st time) - with Lance Von Erich
- World Wrestling Federation/WWE
- WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Class Championship (2 times)
- WWF Heavyweight World Championship (1 time)
- Slammy Award for This Year's Return (2014)
- WWE Hall of Fame
- WWE Bronze Statue
- Bulletin Observer Wrestling
- Most Wrongful Wrestlers (1998)
- Most Overrated (1989-1991)
- Readers' Worst Favorite Wrestler (1989-1990)
- The Worst Feod of the Year (1989) vs. AndrÃÆ'Â © the Giant
- The Worst Feod of the Year (1992) vs. Papa Shango
- The Worst Feod of the Year (1998) vs. Hulk Hogan
- Worst in Interview (1989-1992, 1998)
- Worst Match of the Year (1989) vs. AndrÃÆ'Â © the Giant on October 31
- Worst Match of the Year (1998) vs. Hulk Hogan in Halloween Havoc
- Worst Wrestler (1988, 1998)
References
External links
- Official website
- Primary Soldiers in Finding the Mausoleum
- Soldiers on IMDb
- Pvt. on WWE.com
- Ultimate Warrior Profile at Cagematch.net, Wrestlingdata.com, Internet Wrestling Database
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