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After visiting one of my favorite sites, www.wrestlecrap.com, I was inspired to dig up some old video of The Ultimate Warrior.  For those of you not familiar with wrestling, he was a huge star back in the mid to late 80s.  His wrestling character was an odd one.  He basically made it sound like he was a warrior sent from the heavens to wrestle.  He'd wear face paint, tassels on his arms and ran to the ring like a maniac.  I used to be a fan as a kid but as an adult, I had to question if the guy knew where to draw the line of character and man.  He eventually changed his name to his character's namesake and released a comic book filled with odd rhetoric and ideologies.  Anyhow...I found this first video with several WWE superstars commenting on his interview style...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P39b7v1wzfg

Yeah scary stuff right, but this is my favorite Warrior moment...

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNEd4KH_A4s

Nowadays he does conservative speeches.  Purely odd...

I liked him as a kid.  I though his manic energy is what made the character a memorable one.  As to whether he is crazy; most high energy people are describe as crazy by others.  Not to the extreme case as the warrior was but I think it happens because their minds are wired differently then the average person.

Crap, I thought you were talking about the Yul Brynner movie!

Man, Warrior is the only wrestler I know of who had a harder time making the transition from ring life to real life after it was all said and done. There is no more human being in their minds. There is no more James Hellwig or Randall Poffo, there is only Warrior and the Macho Man. If any other people tried to dress up like a bad comic book superhero and ran around proclaiming himself as such, they'd be tossed in a padded cell asap... well, except for those "Who Wants to Be a Superhero" people...

Crazier still is the YouTube videos taken by attendees at a sports memorobilia show from just a few months ago where the Iron Sheik threw a sh!t fit on the Warrior. Not sure how it started, but the videos of Sheik dropping f-bombs left and right for 2 or 3 minutes are hilarious and unsettling. Like watching a drunk: you're not sure if he's just going to be a threat to himself or become one to someone else too. I'd post it here, but as I said, looooooooooooots of instances of the 'f' word. Just head over to YouTube and search for "ultimate warrior iron sheik".

The Warrior has been out on the lecture circuit calling Arabic people all sorts of lovely racists names the past few years, and on his website as well, so maybe the iron Sheik was reacting to that. 

A couple of years ago, maybe not that long, a site called SomethingAwful.com featured a link to one of the Warrior's online rants, and he threatened a lawsuit.  The site published the correspondence between the parties involved, and it was rather funny. 

You know, I wouldn't be surprised if you're right on the nail about that one Snivelly. In the tirade, I think Sheik proclaims that he's from Georgia numerous times, which would make sense if Crazy McSteroids happened to drop any anti-Arab sentiments either in person or on his website. If he's got the same crazy as Randy Savage though, it won't be long before Warrior's out there with a rap album of his own dissing the Sheik on every other track... only Warrior's will less likely have any kind of musical accompaniment and will just consist of himself going off on several 20 minute tangents.

Funny you mentined that Anubis, I was just on Youtube last night watching that.  The Iron Sheik smacked that security guy pretty hard twice. 

I know! I'm pretty sure the Sheik is legitimately insane at this point. He kept blaming the security guy for the thing with the Warrior, telling him, "This is your fault! You made this happen!"... only with three or four variations on the f word thrown in too. Being security for crap like that just ain't worth it. They should've hired other ex-wrestlers to do security instead. Some of those guys can be bought off with a hot sandwich and a cup of coffee... or a hit off of a crack pipe, sadly enough. I'm sure Lex Luger and Jake Roberts were available.

If you're feeling masochistic, visit the Warrior's site and have a read.  It's fascinating and scary at the same time, the man is so wrapped up in himself!  Read his blog, he mentions the incident with the Iron sheik but fails to report what went on there. 

Don't say I didn't warn you, this is insane:

http://www.ultimatewarrior.com (http://www.ultimatewarrior.com)

I found another one on YouTube of the Warrior ripping into an NFL agent's assitant who told him to hurry up with an autograph for a football player.  Apparently sports conventions are violent places.

Not to defend the Warrior too much, but I don't really think he's as crazy as he comes across. I've read several of his diatribes, and, yes, he has the communicatory ability of a mutant lemur (ring-tailed, no less), and, yes, he is extremely conceited, but his underlying rhetoric seems to be just a very traditional, if somewhat overly individualistic, view of the American Dream. He claims to have read the works of America's founding fathers and to have taken their teaching very much to heart. That would make him much more conservative (in the traditional, moral sense more than the political sense), but not exactly crazy. If I recall, he claims he changed his name to Warrior to protect it and himself from legal troubles started by the WWE as well as to signify his will to fight anybody, anywhere to protect what he sees as his. Admittedly, I'm probably more traditionally conservative than many on this board, so maybe I'm more willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and read some sanity into his rantings, but at the same time, I seldom hear anyone arguing against the few intelligible things he does say, instead just resorting to ad hominem attacks. After teaching writing courses for just under 20 years, I think I have gained some ability to "read between the lines" a bit, and so maybe I can just weed out the main points of a rant better than most. Or maybe I'm just crazy, too.  :tongueout:

The problem may not be with what the Warrior's saying, so much as that no one can understand what he's saying when he's saying it because it's always wrapped up in hoarsely shouted jibberish... and because he may just be insane. I picked up the comic book a few years ago because I thought it be interesting to see if the guy could write, but it was like reading an illustrated bible for borderline lunacy. He's like a televangelist, a life coach and a berserker all in one. heh heh

Admittedly, the man can't write a coherent sentence or stay on topic for more than a couple of seconds. But then, I read that kind of writing all the time in my classes, so, as I said, maybe I've just gotten good at picking out the coherent bits and piecing them together. The "critiques" of Warrior's writing that I've come across, however, are often just as incoherent, and usually are just diatribes from the opposite end of the political spectrum. I guess maybe there are just plenty of crazy people posting on the internet. What are the chances of that? :teddyr:

The internet: giving the crazed and socially unacceptable a medium to discuss the issues that matter most to them... while typing with their nose from the confines of a straight jacket in a padded cell.
 :cheers:

The Warrior has been talking in mind-numbing riddles only he likely understands since the late 1980s.

Personally, I've always felt the best medium to get one's point across is pro-wrestling.

The Warrior understands this, and that is why he will one day be overlord of this world.

You know Mofo, if you're right, then the man definitely should've made his big for global domination after he gorilla-press slammed Hulk Hogan and won the WWF Heavyweight Title. I think his plan of waiting 15 years isn't quite working out like he'd hoped. It's like Homer putting all of his money into pumpkin stocks and waiting to sell 'em till he thinks they'll peak... sometime around January.  :tongueout:

I had an idea, perhaps we all should come up with a Warrior like tirade off the cuff.  Just spout a bunch of confusing rhetoric such as (and I swear this will be off the top of my head)...

"You fear me mortal for I come from the deepest darkest caverns of the underworld leading to the plains of death and decay.  As you walk in my valley of remorse you too will feel the power of the DarkSider in the ultimate challenge in which the loser will see his body vanquished to the outer rims of the universe for I have the greatest Poooooooowwwwwerrrrr..."


See we all can sound like him...I have to admit it was fun, try it! :bouncegiggle:

But to imitate Warrior right, you have to talk about the powers of "destructicity" or something like that.  Actually Warrior is smarter than he looks. He was smart enough to make his fortune in wrestling and get out while the going was good.

I'd love to put Ultimate Warrior and Macho Man in a room together, if only to hear the nonsense that'd come out of both their mouths.

I used to love both as a kid, but recently, wow.  Add Iron Sheik in that room, and it's comic gold.

Oh definitely. It's entertainingly sad the way that Randy Savage is still on this personal vendetta against Hulk Hogan even though the man hasn't set foot into a wrestling ring in years. When he got a little bit of media notice upon the release of his hilarious rap CD, he used that to call out Hulk Hogan at every turn.

I remember seeing him on some Nickelodeon "afternoon show" (you know, they show cartoons with live segments for the kiddies thrown in between to try and make their repeats appealing) where he was interviewed by some random Nick employee who wanted to talk about the guy's album. Savage kept calling out Hogan and telling him to be a man in between shouts of "Ohhhhh yeah!". To prove he was truly insane and not just in regards to Hogan, there was some game held between two groups of kids that were on teams represented by two colors: blue and orange. When Savage was required to pick a team color to decide which of two home viewers would receive a prize when their subsequent team won the competition, Savage said "The black and silver, brutha!", eluding to the colors of his "I still dress in spandex like a wrestler and I'm an old man, but I'm still trying to be 'cool'" outfit. I kid you not, the look the host kid gave him was along the lines of, "Dear God, strike me dead before this Alzheimer steroid-case mistakes me for Hulk Hogan and starts telling me to 'Be a man'...".

Sadly I've never been able to find a clip of this online anywhere, so if anybody has seen this, please link me. It's priceless.

Macho Man made a cameo appearance on Weird Al's sadly short lived tv show, The Weird Al Show.  In the episode, he busts through a wall to fight Harvey the Wonder Hamster (just a regular sized hamster.)  Macho Man, obviously, loses the match. 

Originally, Macho didn't want to do the show due to his losing to a hamster.  But after being re-assured it was a boy hamster, he appeared.

You can find the clip on Youtube, or the Weird Al Show dvd.

I remember when Macho and Warrior met up in a "career ending match" at Wrestlemania VII.  I think I still have it on tape somewhere too. 

Anyway, it was actually a pretty damn good match.  When Macho was in his prime, he could have a good match with pretty much anyone, as his more famous match with Ricky Steamboat in WM III will show. 

The Warrior was pretty much just putting on a show as opposed to wrestling most of the time.  When the bell rang, his arsenal was limited mainly to punches and various "power moves" like his gorilla press, and his matches tended to not last very long.  But in WM VII, I think Macho was able to get a lot more out of him, just like when Hulk took him on in WM VI.  Dare I say, the WM VII match may have even been slightly better.  I'd have to dig that tape out and watch it again to be sure.

(http://www.gumgod.com/images/mike_sdwarrior_warrior.jpg)

"How must I prepare you must ask yourself. Should I jump off the tallest building in the world? Should I lay on the lawn and let it run over me with lawnmowers? Should I go to Africa and let it trample me with raging elephants?"

"The family that I live for only breathes the air that smells of combat. With or without the facepaint I am the Ultimate Warrior!"

"I look above to the gods, and when you fall below the skeletons of the Warriors past, the power of the Warriors will become the eighth Wonder of the World!"

~The Ultimate Warrior

*Shakes Head*

This guy certianly is something else.  Made one hell of a comic though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlGpiZ1Mcfw

SKRONK!!!

So, the Warrior's coming out with a 'shoot interview' where he basically rips apart Hulk Hogan, calls him a cocaine addicted dope head, states that Hogan bought drugs for addicted wrestlers to hold power over them, and says he had an open marriage and allowed other wrestlers to bang his wife. :buggedout:

(http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs1/1401741_o.gif)

"When they were sewing up the gash in my head, they said 'Warrior, there's a piece of crystal in your head'. I said, 'Leave the crystal. Sew it in. Because within that crystal, Randy Savage, are the memories of everything you have ever accomplished'."

even as a kid I knew the comic was trash

related note: it was the first comic I ever read which may explain why I never got into comics

Yeah, a comic like this can ruin anyone's day or tarnish anyone's love of comics before it begins.

My random 'made up' quote. :twirl:

For YOooU Hulk HOooGAN, I said with the power of all the Ultimate Warriors, I am not normal! For you shall lose the belt and then bring me treasures of the abnormal world for which YOU and I can not live in.

For all the great invention purposes of man and with my face paint I shall rule the WWF and then later become something much much bigger. Not as big as the galaxy but huge, HULK... Hooogan! My veins! *snarls*

The GODS spoke to me and said if I go to the store, I shall get milk and bread! That I shall, HULK... HOoogan! But if it's not on sale I shall go to the paranormal world to which I live in and stand by... What am I saying? Hulk... HOGAN...

It gets crazier when he butt rapes Santa.

WUT? In a comic? :buggedout:

yup

I looked it up. You guys didn't joke. I'm not sure how to feel about this, LOL. Kinda gross.

(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2010-03-10-sad_santa.jpg)

Well anyway. This gives me good material for my next random Ultimate Warrior 'made up' quote!

NSFW!!!
http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/warrior-santa-no.jpeg?w=500&h=390 (http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/warrior-santa-no.jpeg?w=500&h=390)

OK... one of my favorite wrestlers... and... Santa... I'm scarred for life. :bluesad:

I'm also assuming that whats in the cup and or bottle is not the same 'stuff' on Santa.

(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_cOgSXAek3iQ/TFMeKPdhxvI/AAAAAAAAAck/rTOD74kQMpE/s1600/unseen7.jpg)

Wow! There are no words...  :buggedout:

Real quote...

(http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgt8xc3CyD1qbe3uyo1_250.gif)

"I was sent in a capsule from a place long from here and I came here for one reason: to attack and keep coming!"

That's what he told Santa...

Wrestlemania 6, at the Toronto SkyDome. I was there. Paid $100 for a seat on the floor, and couldn't see a damn thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWY5D3IFZEU

^ my favorite Warrior promo. I still don't understand it but I enjoy it. :twirl:

(http://knotoryus.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/ultimate-warrior.jpg)

Ultimate Warrior: "Now, you must deal with all the unpleasantries in the entire Universe!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpoaC_XHVSY

before he compltely lost his marbles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4ZTcuhixc

Pretty cool edit combining some of his most memorable promos...  :buggedout: :buggedout: :bouncegiggle:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laiZgrIpbcA&feature=related

Did anyone here watch the full documentary of Self destruction of the Ultimate Warrior? It's good stuff, man.

It's on YouTube btw. :wink:

or how about his last match VS Orlando Jordan? If you're a Warrior fan check it out. :thumbup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbkAKN2HFfE
press conference
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVUCkhUHmL8&feature=related
Full match... p1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8g8oM8-WX8&feature=related
p2

I've yet to see the full thing, but was looking up clips on YouTube earlier.

I was gonna buy it when it came out, but it was around $30.  I found it at K-Mart for like, $5 not too recently so I may go back and buy it.

Oh yeah, man... $5 is way worth it! You'll enjoy it. :thumbup:

I own it. I like how they bury him and go out of their way to fabricate things to make him look like a  douche, like him being him as champ in 96 when he no showed house shows.

Yeah that's the only thing I didn't like about it. (how they made him look like a douche)

I like all the matches they showed though... right up to the OWN VS NWO promos.

I was kinda hoping Hogan vs Warrior 2 would be on there....for comedic purposes