[S-Dubb]

ITS GOING DOWN BROTHER!

[Mr_Jet]

From Bret Hart's book.

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I got to see exactly what kind of champion Warrior was during a show in Omaha. Propped up on a stretcher a few feet outside the dressing room was a Make a Wish kid who looked to be down to his last few hours. There was not a hair left on his head, and not even his Warrior face paint could mask his sad eyes. Sickly pale and barely breathing through a ventilator tube, the boy wore a purple Warrior t-shirt and green and orange tassels tied around his biceps to honour his hero. His mother and father and older brother and sister were with him, patiently waiting for the promised encounter with the Ultimate Warrior.

I bent over to say hello, as did all the other wrestlers on the way into the dressing room. It was odd, but there was Warrior actually sitting with us: he usually kept to himself in his private dressing room. By the time the third match started, a WWF public relations rep poked his head in and politely asked Warrior if he was ready to meet the dying boy. Warrior grunted, "In a fuckin' minute, I'm busy." I thought to myself, Busy doing what, talking to a bunch of guys you can't stand anyway?

As the night wore on the family waited just outside the dressing room door, the boy hanging on to his dying wish to meet his hero. As I was returning to the dressing room after my match, I was relieved to see that they weren't there any more; I assumed that the kid's wish had come true.

Warrior's entrance music played while Jim (Neidhart) and I quickly showered in hopes of beating the crowd out of the building. We'd have to hurry since Warrior never went over ten minutes. We dressed, grabbed our bags and took off. As we rounded a corner down the backstage ramp, we came upon the boy and his weary family, who had been moved there so not to get in the way of Warrior's entrance. I thought, That lousy piece of shit. He'd made them wait all night, unable to summon the compassion to see this real little warrior. Hogan, Randy, and countless others, including Andre never hesitated to take the time to meet a sick, dying kid. My disgust for Warrior magnified a thousand times. To me he was a coward, a weakling and a phony hero.

From seeing and hearing what other wrestlers from that era have to say about the Ultimate Warrior I can believe this. I haven't heard any other wrestler that worked with him say anything good about Warrior.

[#73jetsfan]

You think there is bad blood between
Warrior and Hogan ?

[Amen]

Just wanna leave this here....

[S-Dubb]

Deadspin 28,544 views, Jul 3, 2011 11:30 PM