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If you could take 
a bolt of electricity,

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and somehow morph that 
into a living cartoon character

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that would be Warrior.

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The Ultimate Warrior 
was a righteous gladiator

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that rose faster than anybody 
to the top of the wrestling world.

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Very few people in wrestling 
have gone from start to pinnacle,

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as fast 
as The Ultimate Warrior did.

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History has been made here!

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He had a phenomenal 8 x 10. 
He looked great.

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Vince was about these bodies.

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Warrior caught onto that, and he took
it to a whole different level.

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He had dreams, he had an intensity.

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Absolutely nothing would stop him 
from becoming something.

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But the real man behind 
the face paint, Jim Hellwig,

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contradicted the ideals 
of his heroic alter ego,

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becoming one of wrestling's 
most contentious figures.

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When Jim would get in the ring, 
he thought he became Warrior.

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I was waiting for the next spaceship 
to a higher place!

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For quite a while there, 
he was absolutely batshit insane.

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He thought he was better.

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He didn't want to learn the business, 
he didn't like it.

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I sensed that chronic paranoia. 
When's it all gonna end?

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Hellwig's divisive behavior 
behind the scenes

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would cut his range short

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and leave behind a complicated 
legacy, steeped in controversy.

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And now, a sad note to pass along.

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The death of one of the biggest 
pro wrestling stars.

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When I heard that he had died, 
the way that he had died it hurt.

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He was a moment in time.

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He was a very colorful, powerful
character for a brief moment in time.

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It's been very well documented about 
how he was difficult to work with.

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That the arrogance, and the fame, 
and the ego,

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and all of that was growing 
as his popularity grew.

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But, he would come home 
and I would see the sadness,

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and the insecurity, 
and the self-doubt.

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So, people aren't always 
what they seem to be.

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People only share their true selves 
with the people they're closest to.

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Sometimes they're troubled 
and it's not fair to judge them

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just by one or two things 
that you saw.

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My name is Shari Tyree, 
and I was married to Jim Hellwig,

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The Ultimate Warrior, 
from 1982 to 1991.

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This picture was us backstage.

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It was nice to have fans give us 
pictures and just walk up to you

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and say, "I took this great picture 
of you both,"

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and it was a very, 
very happy time then.

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Somebody gave me a picture, 
a fan gave me this picture.

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He has a little boy in his lap, 
with his face painted

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and then, 
the little doll's face painted.

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This is a picture after he won 
Mr. Georgia.

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He's a beast there. 
Oh, my God, he's so big.

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When I first met him, 
he was just massive.

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Absolutely massive.

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He literally had the largest 
shoulders I've ever seen on a man.

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And the next competitor 
is Jim Hellwig.

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At that time, body building was huge.

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And he had been doing some 
amateur shows

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and I thought 
this guy is amazing.

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Like, he really has got it going on. 
This guy has big dreams, big plans.

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Our first date, he said pick me up
from the bar that he was bouncing at.

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So, I go, and then, all of a sudden, 
I see the doors fly open.

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And he's got this guy by the neck 
and he drops him in the parking lot.

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And then, he went back inside,

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and then he took the trash out 
from the bar.

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I was just in shock, 
and I started laughing.

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He said, "You saw me take the trash 
out." I was like, "Yeah, both times."

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Should I just run now?

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I mean, should I just, go? 
Should I just leave?

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But he rest of the night 
was wonderful.

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We just literally sat on his couch 
and just talked for hours.

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He told me 
he was a chiropractic student.

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I took up weight training 
and body building,

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I thought after I saw the changes 
in my scrawny little body

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that I could make changes 
in other ways,

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so I set a goal for myself 
to get an education,

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become a doctor of chiropractic.

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So those were my goals.

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During that time in school, 
they had discussed genetics.

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And he had told me about 
his grandfathers,

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that they had died
in their early 50s.

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One of the teachers had said to him,

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"If you have that in your family, 
that doesn't look so great for you."

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There was something about that, 
that just woke him up and scared him.

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But he tried to kind of play it off 
like, "I gotta get it all in now

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because I may not be around 
that long."

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His whole drive since the beginning, 
since the first night I ever met him,

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was to be somebody 
and to be something.

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His drive was to be rich, 
to be famous.

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And he was so driven and dedicated,

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like nobody I have ever seen 
in my life.

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And he told me what every woman 
wants to hear,

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he told me he'd protect me 
for the rest of my life.

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Jim and Shari were married 
on October 2nd, 1982.

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And shortly after, Jim put 
his chiropractic career on hold

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to pursue body building dreams 
in Los Angeles.

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Sting has arrived!

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It was there Jim befriended 
a young Steve Borden,

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better known today as wrestler, 
Sting.

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Steve convinces Jim they can
make money together in wrestling,

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and they send out promotional 
packages across the country.

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The first to call is Memphis 
promoter, Jerry Jarrett.

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Jerry Jarrett, in Memphis, 
was known as a promoter

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who would take chances 
on unknown talent.

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From Atlanta, Georgia, and from 
California, The Freedom Fighters!

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I'm Jim Cornette. I've been 
a promoter, match maker, announcer,

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and manager in pro wrestling 
for 40 years.

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And I was not a fan 
of The Ultimate Warrior.

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They're gonna be involved 
in a single fall match.

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When Borden and Hellwig 
got to Memphis

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to the TV studio, it was rotten.

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But you could tell that they had 
some physical charisma.

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You wanted to look at them.

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You just didn't want to see 
what they did.

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Look at these men, look at them.

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Well, there's a lot more to it 
than just being big.

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So, the promoters decided, 
these guys may make it,

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but we don't have time 
to do on the job training.

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They looked for a place to send them
to get rid of them.

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So Hellwig and Borden 
go to Mid-South.

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And, that's where the future 
of professional wrestling was shaped

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without anybody knowing it.

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The most awesome tag team 
in professional wrestling,

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The Blade Runners!

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When The Blade Runners came 
to UWF, I was a broadcaster.

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I'm Jim Ross, 
the voice of AEW Wrestling.

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I've never met or seen a wrestler 
with less ability

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than The Ultimate Warrior.

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Hellwig was very narcissistic.

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"I look this good. I got a great
smile. I have wonderful teeth.

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What more could a promoter want?"

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I don't know, 
maybe, could you wrestle?

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This man gets a body slam.

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The wrestlers liked Steve a bit more, 
and he was more trainable.

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Whereas Jim was hard headed.

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I didn't have the personality to 
take it. I didn't like being handled.

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Steve was more that he liked 
to have his hand held.

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This is where I started 
seeing Jim change.

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Where I saw this kind of side of him 
that was more selfish.

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I didn't give much thought
to what he's going to do

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or how he'd succeed 
in the business.

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I concentrated more 
on what I needed to do.

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They were different people with 
a different idea of what they wanted.

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Steve was all in.

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But Jim, on the inside, he wanted 
to do something on his own,

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that his size and all of that 
would get more attention.

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Despite his limited in-ring ability, 
Jim's physique is undeniable.

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After parting ways with Sting, 
he looks to gain stardom

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in one of wrestling's
most ground breaking territories.

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World Class had the hottest 
syndication in the country.

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So, if you could get on World Class,

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every promoter in the country 
wanted you.

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My name is David Manning. 
I was the referee, promoter, booker,

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with World Class Wrestling, 
in the heydays.

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This is the third 
controversial finish.

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The World Class fans 
had never seen him.

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So we just built a story we wanted 
and we created the star we wanted.

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Weighing an excess of 300 pounds, 
The Dingo Warrior.

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I forget exactly who came up 
with The Dingo Warrior.

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Their pitch was, "Wild dog. 
Wild warrior," he was a heel.

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I thought he was Australian 
when I saw his name.

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But what is a Dingo Warrior?

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I have no idea, 
and nobody else did either.

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It was just the name,

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and then I remember us going 
to Hancock Fabrics or something,

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and cutting the streamers.

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Cheap trunks, the paint was cheap.

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It was what we could afford 
at the time.

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And, there you go, 
you have the Dingo Warrior.

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This guy is a monster. 
A muscle monster.

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His first matches, 
we gave him people to slaughter.

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Whoa, there goes one!

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And here's Dingo 
hammering away on Perry.

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The more the fans cheered, the 
bigger the Dingo Warrior's ego got.

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The bigger the Dingo Warrior's ego 
got,

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the harder it was to work 
with him in the ring.

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And I think that history 
followed him everywhere.

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You the master! 
You're the king! You the king!

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It was basically, "I've got the best 
body. I should beat everyone.

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I'm not going to spend time learning 
this craft, I don't care about it.

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I just want to be a TV star."

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The only place that a wrestler 
with that kind of attitude

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could find a home in the '80s 
was in the WWF.

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In 1987, there was no grander stage 
in wrestling than the WWF.

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Wrestler Jim Hellwig is now one step 
closer to achieving his dreams

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of being in the spotlight,

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and his life with his wife Shari 
is also about to change forever.

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So this is the letter asking Jim 
to come to the WWF.

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He knew everything would change 
when he got this.

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He was so happy.

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No matter the territory you were in, 
you knew to make money

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and be on top, 
that is where you had to go.

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And I knew that this would change 
the entire dynamic of our marriage.

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I knew he'd be on the road 
20, 25 days a month.

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It was basically gonna be 
a long distance relationship.

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He had assured me 
"Once I start making some money,

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I want you to come on the road 
at least seven days."

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And so, I did go to some
of these beginning matches.

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And, they had him working 
with some of the job guys,

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Barry Horowitz, those guys.

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And those matches were pretty rough.

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The Dingo Warrior!

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His big thing with me was, 
"I want you to sit in the crowd.

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I want you to watch the matches,

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and give me feedback 
on what the people's reactions are."

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People were up getting popcorn, 
going to the concession stand.

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They looked at him, 
but it wasn't like,

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"Wow, this guy's amazing. 
Who is he?"

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The guy's got the looks,
he's got the body--

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He knew that 
if he was gonna make it there,

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that he was going to have 
to figure out his gimmick,

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and where he was gonna go 
with the character.

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Vince saw a lot in him and they had 
this great connection and friendship,

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and I think he really 
looked up to Vince.

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And I know Vince did not like 
the name Dingo Warrior. Who would?

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The Ultimate Warrior!

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Vince said, "We want you to do 
Warrior, but we don't want Dingo."

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The first time I wrestled Terry Gibbs
they put screen up in the corner.

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To all you WWF fans out there 
looking for some type of direction,

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you came to the right place.

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You're looking 
at The Ultimate Warrior!

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His energy, his mannerisms, his 
jargon, began to come together there.

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the only thing that blows through 
bags is the power of the Warrior!

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He's not the great wrestler, 
but Vince saw the intensity.

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Oh, what a clothesline!

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If he could get their attention 
then he'd turn that into something.

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That's when the shaking
of the ropes started.

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"I've gotta go out there 
and grab the attention."

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And then, 
he's gotta be a mystery.

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People have to kind of figure out, 
"Who is this guy? Where is he from?"

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And that's where the, 
"Where is he from?"

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"Oh, he's from parts unknown."

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I was sitting in parts unknown 
waiting for the next spaceship!

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Warrior's promo style 
was unique, irreverent.

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Sometimes had to be interpreted.

234
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-What did he say? 
-His promos were nonsensical.

235
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At best. They made no sense.

236
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Just seeing that--

237
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...have already continued 
to worsen...

238
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...across these weak planets.

239
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We'd get in the car 
and crack himself up.

240
00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:29,240
And he'd go, 
"What did I say? What was that?"

241
00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:33,080
Everybody looked at him 
as this intense, serious,

242
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aggressive Ultimate Warrior.

243
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And he was those things. 
But he could also be extremely funny.

244
00:14:39,800 --> 00:14:43,400
But his entrance music was the thing 
that really was the catalyst.

245
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Somebody's music!

246
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You hear that music, you stop.

247
00:14:50,440 --> 00:14:52,880
They've exploded! Here they are!

248
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He flies to the ring, shaking the 
ropes, he's got all the colors on.

249
00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:02,560
Wow! It was game over 
from that point on.

250
00:15:02,720 --> 00:15:05,480
Oh, no! It's the Ultimate Warrior!

251
00:15:05,640 --> 00:15:08,360
You take a guy that looks that good, 
give him music.

252
00:15:08,520 --> 00:15:12,560
You put every big star in the ring 
with him and tell them to lay down.

253
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He's gotta win decisively.

254
00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:18,160
You smash him over. 
It's called a push, a big push,

255
00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:20,720
and you make this guy 
the biggest star

256
00:15:20,880 --> 00:15:23,800
that you can by disguising 
his weaknesses.

257
00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,960
And, exposing his strengths.

258
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That's a living cartoon character 
coming to life.

259
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It comes to your home town.

260
00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,160
You can get 
that cartoon character's autograph.

261
00:15:35,320 --> 00:15:37,560
And the merchandising 
became a huge thing.

262
00:15:37,720 --> 00:15:39,960
-Hey, what's going on? 
-Nothing, Dad.

263
00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:43,600
Wrestling buddies 
want to be your buddy!

264
00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:46,720
His favorite merchandising 
was his wrestling buddy.

265
00:15:48,200 --> 00:15:50,400
A picture of him 
and his wrestling buddy.

266
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People didn't understand how excited 
he was about the wrestling buddy.

267
00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:57,400
There was just something about it.

268
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It just made him feel like
he had arrived.

269
00:16:00,360 --> 00:16:03,160
We were able to buy 
our first house on the lake.

270
00:16:03,320 --> 00:16:06,800
The original part of the house 
we bought was $100,000.

271
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We added $100,000 addition.

272
00:16:09,400 --> 00:16:11,640
It was a crazy add, his home gym.

273
00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:13,440
The house was just amazing.

274
00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:15,960
He's getting these huge checks, 
we're happy,

275
00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:18,040
and he's getting a push to the top.

276
00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:22,080
Then friction came in 
between he and the other wrestlers.

277
00:16:24,280 --> 00:16:26,440
I'm Jake "The Snake" Roberts.

278
00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:29,640
And, well, he debuted 
while I was in the WWF.

279
00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,800
He would fly off the handle 
very quickly.

280
00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:36,120
Very hard to get along with. 
Impossible to talk to.

281
00:16:36,280 --> 00:16:38,520
And he was a complete jerk 
in the ring.

282
00:16:38,680 --> 00:16:40,840
Bobby Heenan was not a fan.

283
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,120
Oh, hit him with a big right hand!

284
00:16:43,280 --> 00:16:46,640
Bobby had a bad neck 
from his years in wrestling.

285
00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:49,480
And he always told guys 
to take care of his neck.

286
00:16:49,640 --> 00:16:52,440
He walked up to him, said, 
"Hey, you broke my neck."

287
00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,480
"Oh." He didn't care.

288
00:16:56,360 --> 00:16:58,560
The barney's bell 
is ringing right now.

289
00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,240
There's an unwritten rule 
in wrestling

290
00:17:01,400 --> 00:17:04,720
that is you take care 
of your opponent.

291
00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:06,800
He threw that one out the window.

292
00:17:06,960 --> 00:17:08,520
I'm not trying to be a prick

293
00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:11,640
but literally, he couldn't wrestle, 
he couldn't talk.

294
00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,560
He looked like a million dollars

295
00:17:13,720 --> 00:17:17,440
and the most successful promoter 
in the world pushed him to the moon.

296
00:17:17,600 --> 00:17:20,200
And it there's nothing else to say.

297
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:24,320
Those guys talking about how bad 
of a wrestler he was

298
00:17:24,480 --> 00:17:26,040
really affected him.

299
00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,400
And then it kind of made him 
second guess himself a lot.

300
00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,920
I think they were spot on about him, 
in some occasions,

301
00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:36,560
but I don't think 
they really understood

302
00:17:36,720 --> 00:17:39,000
that there was more to him than that.

303
00:17:39,160 --> 00:17:42,400
And that he did have a sensitive 
and a very insecure side.

304
00:17:46,320 --> 00:17:49,800
He kind of grew up just a really 
scrawny, insecure little kid.

305
00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,160
I mean, he weighed like 140 pounds.

306
00:17:52,320 --> 00:17:56,560
His dad left home when he was 12. 
That was very traumatic for him.

307
00:17:56,720 --> 00:18:00,480
He told me that, his dad was 
cheating with one of the neighbors.

308
00:18:00,640 --> 00:18:03,480
It did something to him. 
It caused him a lot of pain.

309
00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:07,000
And when he started working out 
and he saw changes in his body,

310
00:18:07,160 --> 00:18:08,880
he got excited about that

311
00:18:09,040 --> 00:18:11,760
and it made him realize 
that he could be more.

312
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:16,400
I think that all of us carry around 
that really insecure inner child,

313
00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,080
and all the trauma 
that we have as children,

314
00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:20,840
sometimes we take with us.

315
00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:24,600
And, in his case, he had 
a very severe anxiety disorder.

316
00:18:24,760 --> 00:18:27,840
He had had it for years. 
He was always very anxious.

317
00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:30,720
How would he show that sadness 
and insecurity?

318
00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,960
He was a human being. 
I mean, he had insecurities.

319
00:18:34,120 --> 00:18:37,320
He cried, he got frustrated. 
He wanted to be the best.

320
00:18:37,480 --> 00:18:41,360
He put a lot of pressure on himself 
to be the best.

321
00:18:41,520 --> 00:18:44,040
He did not want to be 
that scrawny kid anymore

322
00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:46,920
so he had to make this work.

323
00:18:49,760 --> 00:18:54,280
By 1990, the Ultimate Warrior 
is the biggest star in the WWF,

324
00:18:54,440 --> 00:18:57,880
aside from one man, 
the immortal, Hulk Hogan.

325
00:18:58,040 --> 00:19:02,400
The final piece of Vince McMahon's 
plan to crystalize a new megastar

326
00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,120
takes hold at WrestleMania 6.

327
00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:10,920
WrestleMania 6, 
it was in the Sky Dome in Toronto,

328
00:19:11,080 --> 00:19:14,440
one of the great North American 
cities for wrestling.

329
00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:17,520
Besides Hulk Hogan, 
the Ultimate Warrior

330
00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:21,400
was the biggest box office attraction 
in wrestling.

331
00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:23,520
He found out a few months before

332
00:19:23,680 --> 00:19:26,080
that he was gonna be taking 
Hulk's spot.

333
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,200
It was the greatest joy of his life.

334
00:19:28,360 --> 00:19:31,800
He thought, "Wow, this will be 
amazing," and he was very pumped.

335
00:19:31,960 --> 00:19:35,400
And then, it came, 
and WrestleMania 6 was there.

336
00:19:35,560 --> 00:19:38,960
Champion against champion! 
Title for title!

337
00:19:39,120 --> 00:19:40,840
This is what it's all about!

338
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:43,640
He was the most nervous 
I've ever seen.

339
00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:45,240
He had severe anxiety.

340
00:19:45,400 --> 00:19:48,880
Take a look at this! 
Look at the intensity!

341
00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:51,680
Eye to eye right here, face to face.

342
00:19:51,840 --> 00:19:54,960
I literally could physically feel 
the match.

343
00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:58,480
Like, I was like feeling it.

344
00:19:58,640 --> 00:20:01,600
It was just the emotion of it, 
the excitement.

345
00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,280
I've just never felt 
anything like that.

346
00:20:04,440 --> 00:20:06,800
And here we go!

347
00:20:08,480 --> 00:20:10,760
It's deafening here in the Sky Dome!

348
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:15,080
Vince felt that 7 years of Hulk Hogan 
steadily on top was enough.

349
00:20:15,240 --> 00:20:18,600
He thought that the Warrior 
was ready to take it.

350
00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:22,520
Caught him with the clothesline! 
Onto the floor goes Hogan!

351
00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:25,080
Hogan had gone 
on a breakneck schedule,

352
00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,680
he was tired
and was ready to take a break.

353
00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:30,520
And so, Vince made the decision 
to pass the torch.

354
00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,000
He's got him up!

355
00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:35,800
It's the only time in that decade run 
with the WWF,

356
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:40,360
that Hulk Hogan actually legitimately 
got beaten, 1, 2, 3 in the ring

357
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:43,040
by an opponent, 
and it was the Ultimate Warrior.

358
00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:45,200
Here it is!

359
00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:49,600
Oh! He moved out of the way!

360
00:20:52,000 --> 00:20:57,920
Look at the big splash! 1, 2--! 
He got him! He got him!

361
00:20:58,080 --> 00:20:59,440
Unbelievable!

362
00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:04,280
For Hogan to do what Hogan did 
for Ultimate Warrior is a miracle.

363
00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:08,400
He carried the Warrior
to immortality at WrestleMania 6.

364
00:21:08,560 --> 00:21:11,680
And they did it live, 
which is even more astonishing.

365
00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:17,240
After the match, he kind of went off 
on his own for a little bit.

366
00:21:17,400 --> 00:21:18,720
Just to take it all in.

367
00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:21,640
And to give himself a big pat 
on the back and say,

368
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:24,120
"Wow, nobody believed in me, 
but I did it."

369
00:21:24,280 --> 00:21:27,440
He was rich 
and now he was the world champion.

370
00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,200
But that was short lived.

371
00:21:29,360 --> 00:21:32,560
Because literally, 
like two months after,

372
00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,640
Jim Hellwig left 
and the Ultimate Warrior came home.

373
00:21:41,600 --> 00:21:43,280
He became really erratic.

374
00:21:43,440 --> 00:21:46,560
He started staying on the road, 
which he never did before.

375
00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:48,920
He was disconnected. 
Something was off.

376
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,960
You call his behavior erratic, 
what do you mean by that?

377
00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:56,480
He seemed altered.

378
00:21:56,640 --> 00:22:00,840
I mean, I didn't see anything, 
but he definitely was not--

379
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:03,520
He was not well.

380
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,520
He was on the road, 
and I tried to call his room.

381
00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,360
And he didn't answer. So I had them 
do a wellness check on him.

382
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,080
You ask any wrestling wife out there,

383
00:22:14,240 --> 00:22:18,360
when you don't hear from 
your husband, you get scared.

384
00:22:18,520 --> 00:22:23,160
And when I called back, the guys, 
"He's there. He was asleep."

385
00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:24,760
And that was the end of it.

386
00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:28,680
I thought back to something 
somebody told me a long time ago.

387
00:22:28,840 --> 00:22:31,520
"Women will always want to sleep 
with your husband,

388
00:22:31,680 --> 00:22:34,920
but ones that want to steal your life 
are the worry."

389
00:22:35,080 --> 00:22:38,680
So I called the room. 
He answered the phone.

390
00:22:38,840 --> 00:22:41,800
And I heard a girl's voice.

391
00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:00,360
And I immediately thought, 
oh, my gosh. I was devastated.

392
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:05,640
I started going through his things, 
and I found this day planner.

393
00:23:05,800 --> 00:23:09,600
And I looked at page 1,
and page 2, and page 3,

394
00:23:09,760 --> 00:23:13,200
and it would be a girl's name 
and the town.

395
00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:21,840
And I told him, I said,

396
00:23:22,000 --> 00:23:25,720
"When you come home, 
you're gonna be served papers.

397
00:23:26,720 --> 00:23:28,520
And I'm divorcing you."

398
00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:31,040
I didn't wait for a response.

399
00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,160
My worst fear had come true.

400
00:23:33,320 --> 00:23:37,520
I had just lost my husband.

401
00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:43,280
By 1991, Jim Hellwig's 9-year 
marriage to Shari comes to an end.

402
00:23:45,240 --> 00:23:50,200
And to make matters worse, 
he loses the WWF Championship.

403
00:23:50,360 --> 00:23:52,760
No! Wait a second, no!

404
00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:56,600
Feeling betrayed, his relationship 
with his boss, Vince McMahon,

405
00:23:56,760 --> 00:23:58,280
begins to deteriorate.

406
00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:03,680
I was in Orlando, 
and Vince came to me and said,

407
00:24:03,840 --> 00:24:06,000
"We want to put you 
and Warrior together

408
00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:09,000
and give you your championship run,"

409
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,280
which I had been waiting for, 
for years.

410
00:24:12,440 --> 00:24:17,960
"But before we can, you need to go 
and get the okay from him."

411
00:24:18,120 --> 00:24:23,760
I'm like, "What? What do you mean? 
You're the f'ing boss, man."

412
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:27,400
He goes, "Jake, it's just the way 
we have to do these things."

413
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:29,560
So I went to his private 
dressing room

414
00:24:29,720 --> 00:24:31,880
and knocked on the door.

415
00:24:32,040 --> 00:24:34,560
"What? Come in."

416
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,120
He got right in my face and says,
"Let me tell you something.

417
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:40,440
I don't care anything 
about your family,

418
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:42,320
I don't care anything about you.

419
00:24:42,480 --> 00:24:45,680
I don't care about wrestling. 
I just want to do my shit.

420
00:24:45,840 --> 00:24:48,280
Here's the deal. 
You better not miss a show.

421
00:24:48,440 --> 00:24:50,760
Because then you're messing 
with my money.

422
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,280
If you mess with my money, 
I'm gonna get ya.

423
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:55,240
End of story. Get out."

424
00:24:55,400 --> 00:24:57,800
I walked out and I was in shock.

425
00:24:57,960 --> 00:25:02,280
For this jackass to come to me like 
that was like pissing in my mouth.

426
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:06,400
But I had to do it 
if I wanted that championship run.

427
00:25:06,560 --> 00:25:09,240
After Summer Slam 
it'll be me and Warrior.

428
00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,320
Head to head. Making more money 
than I ever thought I'd make.

429
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:17,920
Plans for Jake "The Snake" Roberts 
would soon be derailed

430
00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:21,600
as tensions between McMahon 
and Hellwig begin to boil over.

431
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:24,640
Desperate to remain 
at the top of the card,

432
00:25:24,800 --> 00:25:27,760
Jim plans a drastic move.

433
00:25:28,880 --> 00:25:32,480
At this point, he moved into his home 
that he bought in Arizona.

434
00:25:32,640 --> 00:25:35,120
He decided he wanted 
to live the big life,

435
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:38,600
so he bought himself a million dollar 
mansion in Scottsdale.

436
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:41,360
He called me up,
because of our history

437
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:44,040
and he needed somebody 
that he could trust,

438
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:46,360
somebody that he could talk to.

439
00:25:46,520 --> 00:25:48,360
He wanted me to come out.

440
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:53,480
He had decided, in his mind, 
in his paranoid way,

441
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:56,040
that he wanted everything 
that Hulk had.

442
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:57,560
He wanted the same money,

443
00:25:57,720 --> 00:26:00,080
he wanted the same cut 
of the merchandising,

444
00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,480
he wanted it all.

445
00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:06,320
So, he's like, 
"I'm gonna give Vince this letter

446
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,520
and if he fires me, he fires me."

447
00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,040
I was like, "You can't do this." 
I go, "You can't hold up TV."

448
00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,000
He's like,
"Well, I've lost my whole life

449
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,760
and I feel like I deserve 
what he has."

450
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,800
And at that point, there's absolutely 
no getting through to him.

451
00:26:23,520 --> 00:26:29,360
And I knew that this was gonna end 
really bad for him.

452
00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:35,880
Leading up to the Summer Slam 
Pay Per View in 1991,

453
00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:40,320
with 20,000 fans in attendance 
and millions more watching at home,

454
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:44,080
Jim delivers a letter to Vince 
laying out a list of demands.

455
00:26:44,240 --> 00:26:47,040
He threatens that unless 
he is treated creatively

456
00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:50,080
and financially in line 
with Hulk Hogan

457
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,240
he would refuse to show up.

458
00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:57,040
His relationship with Vince 
is the most complicated thing.

459
00:26:57,200 --> 00:26:58,520
He loved Vince.

460
00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:04,320
And I think that he looked at him 
like a father figure in a way.

461
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,920
I actually believe that he just 
wanted more attention from him.

462
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:12,400
Ay time he asked Vince 
for something, Vince gave it to him.

463
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:15,840
"I want my own locker room. 
I want a limousine all the time.

464
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:18,680
I want the Lear jets." 
So I mean, he wanted it all.

465
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,520
And I think at that point,

466
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,640
Vince had grown tired 
and weary of the demands,

467
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,000
and it came to the point where, 
I mean, what do you do?

468
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,200
It's a business, 
and you don't hold up a show.

469
00:27:30,360 --> 00:27:34,200
Vince is infuriated, 
but he has one rule:

470
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:37,320
get the match in the ring 
at all costs.

471
00:27:37,480 --> 00:27:40,400
Vince temporarily placates 
Warrior's demands,

472
00:27:40,560 --> 00:27:44,360
but he has no intention 
of honoring them after the event.

473
00:27:44,520 --> 00:27:47,520
I was at Summer Slam. 
It was in Madison Square Garden.

474
00:27:47,680 --> 00:27:49,800
I'm so amped up.

475
00:27:49,960 --> 00:27:53,320
I am gonna start making thousands 
and thousands of dollars

476
00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:55,720
every time I go through that curtain.

477
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:59,600
I was standing next to Vince 
when Warrior came out of the ring.

478
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,200
And Vince put his hand out 
and stopped him

479
00:28:10,360 --> 00:28:12,400
and he goes, 
"By the way, you're fired.

480
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,760
Now get the **** out of my building."

481
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,040
Vince looked at me and said,

482
00:28:17,200 --> 00:28:20,440
"You got the worst luck 
of any human being I've ever met."

483
00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:23,520
To say that I wanted to kill 
that son of a bitch

484
00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:25,360
would be putting it lightly.

485
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:28,800
I carried that anger for years.

486
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:33,120
This is the letter from Vince McMahon 
to the Warrior.

487
00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,680
"As you know, 
on September 23rd, 1987,

488
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:38,880
you signed a booking contract 
with Titan Sports.

489
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:41,080
At the time you signed the contract,

490
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:46,960
you were relatively obscure with 
an enthusiastic desire to succeed.

491
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:49,600
It now appears the fame 
that you have obtained

492
00:28:49,760 --> 00:28:52,840
through the efforts of Titan Sports 
has gone to your head.

493
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,400
You've become impossible 
to work with.

494
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:58,520
You have become a legend 
in your own mind.

495
00:28:58,680 --> 00:29:00,840
You are entitled to your own opinion,

496
00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:03,440
you are not entitled 
to vent your feelings

497
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,120
by threatening to breech 
your contract.

498
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:09,280
This was a serious mistake 
on your part."

499
00:29:10,640 --> 00:29:14,080
Jim's greatest downfall of all time,

500
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:18,160
was his inability to see things 
from somebody else's perspective.

501
00:29:18,320 --> 00:29:21,840
He just always thought that his way 
was the right way.

502
00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:26,240
After threatening 
to no-show Summer Slam,

503
00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:28,960
Jim Hellwig gets suspended 
by Vince McMahon.

504
00:29:29,120 --> 00:29:33,400
Over the next 18 months, both 
engage in several legal battles,

505
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,880
leading to Jim's eventual firing.

506
00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:37,360
Feeling powerless,

507
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:40,400
Jim makes a bold move 
to regain control of his life,

508
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:43,000
and the character he left behind.

509
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:47,080
Warrior's run with the WWF 
came to an end in 1992.

510
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,720
He changed his legal name 
to Warrior

511
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,200
because they owned 
Ultimate Warrior.

512
00:29:52,360 --> 00:29:54,960
They were mad at each other 
for several years.

513
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:57,160
Warrior became Warrior.

514
00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:01,200
Not "The Warrior". 
Not Jim 'The Warrior' Hellwig.

515
00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,120
He changed his name, 
legally, to Warrior.

516
00:30:04,280 --> 00:30:06,160
I changed my name 
because they said,

517
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:08,640
"What you did for 
the last 15 years, we own.

518
00:30:08,800 --> 00:30:10,680
You can't even refer to it."

519
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,560
So I started using my character
that I spent all those years

520
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:18,240
developing and creating 
in entrepreneurial projects.

521
00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:21,520
Why do you think he legally changed 
his name to Warrior?

522
00:30:21,680 --> 00:30:25,160
This is just my opinion, 
because I was not his wife then.

523
00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:29,000
He had to reinvent himself. 
You have to make a living.

524
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:30,960
He'd built the character

525
00:30:31,120 --> 00:30:34,280
and probably felt 
that that was what he had to do.

526
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:38,800
By 1996, Hulk Hogan 
and other WWF wrestlers

527
00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:42,760
have jumped ship 
to their arch competitor,  WCW.

528
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:45,240
One! Two! Three!

529
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,560
In order to recapture WWF's 
former success,

530
00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,000
Vince decides to approach Warrior 
for a second chance.

531
00:30:52,160 --> 00:30:54,760
Along with members 
of his executive team,

532
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,880
Vince flies to Warrior's new home 
in Arizona to make amends.

533
00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,920
During this talk 
and during this lunch,

534
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:07,160
all that Warrior talked about 
was his concepts, and his visions,

535
00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:12,400
and his ideas 
for spreading "destrucity".

536
00:31:12,560 --> 00:31:15,560
You're probably wondering 
out there in TV land.

537
00:31:15,720 --> 00:31:17,680
What the fuck is "destrucity"?

538
00:31:19,920 --> 00:31:25,600
"Destrucity" was the truth 
in between destiny and reality,

539
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:29,200
where you could stay true to yourself
while achieving your goals

540
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,680
because he thought, 
in his demented mind,

541
00:31:31,840 --> 00:31:34,680
he was gonna be some kind 
of motivational person

542
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:38,040
for children and beleaguered people 
across America.

543
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,440
I got on with 
the entrepreneurial projects,

544
00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:43,760
started thinking about public 
speaking, reading and writing.

545
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:48,280
Ultimate Warrior always represented 
a superhero comic book character.

546
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,240
So I wrote the story around 
this graphically created

547
00:31:51,400 --> 00:31:53,400
Ultimate Warrior 
comic book character.

548
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:57,280
Now he wants to be a motivational
speaker. He wants comic books.

549
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,680
There's nothing wrong with any of 
that, if you're qualified to do it.

550
00:32:01,840 --> 00:32:04,600
This is time in my life 
I could never get back.

551
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,960
It was a total waste of a trip.

552
00:32:09,000 --> 00:32:11,640
Although his staff 
has major apprehensions,

553
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,160
McMahon takes a risk 
by hiring Warrior once again,

554
00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:18,560
and his big return is scheduled 
for WrestleMania 12.

555
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,040
WrestleMania!

556
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:26,800
Warrior's opponent is rising star 
Hunter Hearst Helmsley,

557
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:29,360
better known today as Triple H.

558
00:32:29,520 --> 00:32:32,720
-He basically sold nothing...
-Coming right about-- Yeah!

559
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:34,400
It's over!

560
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:38,240
Took Triple H's finish and stood 
right back up and looked at him.

561
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:41,320
Beat him up and beat him 
in a minute and a half, flat.

562
00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:46,640
Just trashed him, just destroyed him 
because he was the Warrior

563
00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,360
and he was the most 
important thing in the world.

564
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:54,320
The pop was huge, 
but only for a few weeks.

565
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:57,920
When the 1996 WWF fan

566
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:02,760
saw the guy that he remembered 
as being the big star from 1990,

567
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:05,720
"He wasn't as good 
as I remember him."

568
00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:07,280
Things had changed.

569
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,440
He wouldn't sell
lots of merchandise.

570
00:33:09,600 --> 00:33:11,760
Destrucity won't become 
a household word.

571
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,280
The comic book 
was not gonna sell.

572
00:33:14,440 --> 00:33:16,800
Things were not gonna 
be going his way.

573
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:20,160
Vince made the decision, 
"We don't need him on our roster."

574
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,920
Warrior's career in the WWF is over,

575
00:33:27,080 --> 00:33:30,440
and it isn't the story book ending 
everyone was hoping for.

576
00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:35,600
Defeated and disappointed, 
Warrior retreats back to Arizona.

577
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,560
Years later, he goes back 
to his body building roots

578
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:40,120
and opens his own gym.

579
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:44,320
It was there he would cross paths
again with his ex-wife, Shari.

580
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,200
That's probably one of the times 
where he was very, very, very happy.

581
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:50,920
He had built this 
from the ground, up, and--

582
00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,400
I just saw like a new energy in him 
that I hadn't seen in a long time.

583
00:33:55,560 --> 00:33:57,600
He and I were friends 
at that point.

584
00:33:57,760 --> 00:34:02,120
And he was dating, and I was dating, 
and it wasn't like weird or anything.

585
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:06,360
It was just nice just to have him 
in my life and have him as a friend.

586
00:34:06,520 --> 00:34:10,120
And then I met my now husband 
there.

587
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:11,760
And he met his wife.

588
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,280
And then, when I got pregnant 
with my daughter,

589
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,240
it got to the point 
where he and I decided

590
00:34:18,400 --> 00:34:21,680
that it was not a good idea for me 
to be in the gym anymore

591
00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:24,600
because I had fallen in love

592
00:34:24,760 --> 00:34:27,520
and he had fallen in love 
with somebody else,

593
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:31,360
and it was gonna make our 
significant others very uncomfortable

594
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:33,000
if we're around each other.

595
00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:37,880
And he stood in front of me, 
and he took my hands, and said

596
00:34:38,040 --> 00:34:43,040
"I want to thank you for 
all these years, of being my wife."

597
00:34:43,200 --> 00:34:49,560
I'm so sorry for all the pain
that I've ever caused you."

598
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:54,400
And I wish I could have been 
a faithful husband,"

599
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:58,080
and just the fact that he 
acknowledged that meant a lot to me.

600
00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:01,720
"And know that I always loved you,

601
00:35:01,880 --> 00:35:04,880
and I wish you nothing but happiness 
and the best,

602
00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:07,160
and I know you're gonna be 
a great mom."

603
00:35:08,160 --> 00:35:11,200
And that conversation ended 
our relationship.

604
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,080
And that was the last time 
that I saw him.

605
00:35:14,240 --> 00:35:17,520
With Warrior's wrestling career 
in the rearview mirror,

606
00:35:17,680 --> 00:35:20,400
and his relationship with Shari 
officially over,

607
00:35:20,560 --> 00:35:22,720
he was not done
creating controversy

608
00:35:22,880 --> 00:35:26,680
and would spend the next decade 
using his fleeting celebrity status

609
00:35:26,840 --> 00:35:29,760
to become a conservative 
motivational speaker.

610
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,960
The woman who'd become my wife

611
00:35:32,120 --> 00:35:35,000
walked into my life, 
she was conservative.

612
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:39,120
And through her I realized I had 
been, without knowing directly,

613
00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:42,480
all along living by 
a conservative philosophy life.

614
00:35:42,640 --> 00:35:47,680
I was in my mid 30s. I wasn't gonna 
retire and just not do anything.

615
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:52,240
So I started with the real 
simple idea of just going out,

616
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,200
talking to young people.

617
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,600
I don't pull my punches 
about anything.

618
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,440
He wanted to be a motivational 
speaker and a coach.

619
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:04,720
He was actually a far right-wing 
nutcase who hated gay people.

620
00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:08,560
Let me come down off 
my politically correct horse.

621
00:36:11,440 --> 00:36:15,280
Because queering 
doesn't make the world work.

622
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:22,360
And he said really horrible things

623
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:25,440
about a variety of cultures 
and peoples--

624
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:30,320
His political rants or his anti gay 
rants or his right wing rants,

625
00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:32,080
or his homophobia,

626
00:36:32,240 --> 00:36:34,840
I've never yet understood 
the first fucking thing

627
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:36,880
about how this guy's head worked.

628
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,320
And he would say a variety of things 
about guys in the business

629
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,480
that may or may not have been true,

630
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:48,120
but coming from him 
was the most unpalatable of all.

631
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,400
Hulkamania is entwined in society.

632
00:36:53,400 --> 00:36:57,800
By the example you've set 
of how to fuck up a life.

633
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,240
I mean, you didn't care if your wife 
slept with other guys.

634
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:03,800
I mean, you're a real piece of shit, 
Terry.

635
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:09,320
Here was the most unprofessional, 
argumentative, hard to work with,

636
00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:11,680
egotistical, untalented guy

637
00:37:11,840 --> 00:37:15,520
that all these people 
had a hand in making a star,

638
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:18,200
and then all he did afterwards 
was trash them.

639
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:24,200
After spending years publicly 
disparaging his contemporaries

640
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:27,160
and embroiled in lawsuits 
with the WWE,

641
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:31,120
it was unlikely that Warrior 
would ever find himself face to face

642
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:33,320
with any of his former opponents.

643
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:35,520
That would all change in 2014

644
00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:38,480
in a move that shocked 
the wrestling world

645
00:37:38,640 --> 00:37:41,160
when it was announced 
that The Ultimate Warrior

646
00:37:41,320 --> 00:37:43,800
would be headlining 
the Hall of Fame ceremony

647
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:45,640
at WrestleMania 30.

648
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,560
One of his longtime enemies

649
00:37:47,720 --> 00:37:50,200
would be lying in wait 
for his return.

650
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:52,720
I had a roll of quarters 
in my pocket.

651
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,760
I was gonna beat his ass.

652
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,400
And I'm waiting on him, 
looking for him.

653
00:37:57,560 --> 00:37:59,320
Of course, Warrior being Warrior,

654
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,840
they had him in a private area 
and security guards and all that.

655
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,160
I had to wait, and I had to wait, 
and I had to wait.

656
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:08,600
And I'm boiling, I'm boiling, 
I'm boiling.

657
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:12,160
And then, all of a sudden, 
somebody tapped me on the back.

658
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:15,640
Turned around and it was Warrior.

659
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:19,200
He put his hands up and he goes, 
"Please, just let me do this.

660
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,240
I need to apologize to you 
and your family.

661
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,000
That's who I was then, 
but that wasn't me.

662
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:29,000
But, if it means anything, 
just know that I'm sorry."

663
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:31,840
He disarmed me.

664
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,120
Another lesson in life, man.

665
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:38,280
That's what I got, a lesson.

666
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:40,840
At the Hall of Fame weekend,

667
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:44,200
Warrior made amends with 
some of the talent that was there.

668
00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,080
It probably warmed Vince's heart 
more than anyone

669
00:38:48,240 --> 00:38:51,640
because he just always likes 
to bring people back into the fold.

670
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:55,400
-Congratulations. 
-You always look great.

671
00:38:55,560 --> 00:38:57,200
He was on his best behavior

672
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:01,120
and he did what everyone considered 
to be a fine speech.

673
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,840
I've never interacted with anybody 
in this business

674
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:06,800
that hasn't taught me something.

675
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,600
The inductions were made 
and his family was there.

676
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:14,040
And it seemed like an improbable 
story book ending

677
00:39:14,200 --> 00:39:17,680
for this multi-decade 
contentious relationship.

678
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:20,600
Warrior!

679
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:24,120
The next night, he comes out 
on  Monday Night Raw,

680
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,720
live on television, 
and cuts another promo.

681
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:30,200
It's an inspirational speech 
that people actually understood.

682
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:32,760
I am Ultimate Warrior!

683
00:39:32,920 --> 00:39:37,640
You are the Ultimate Warrior fans!

684
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:43,600
And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior 
will run forever!

685
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,960
Warrior didn't look healthy 
that night.

686
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:52,360
Like he had really got fatigued 
or hadn't been able to sleep.

687
00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:54,080
Something was off.

688
00:39:55,680 --> 00:40:00,000
My sister called me, and she's like, 
"I'm so sorry about Jim."

689
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:04,720
And I'm like, "What are you talking 
about? What do you mean?"

690
00:40:07,040 --> 00:40:08,920
Somewhere around 12 hours after

691
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:11,320
that final
Monday Night Raw  appearance,

692
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:15,440
he was leaving his hotel room, 
walking to the car the next morning,

693
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:17,920
had a heart attack and died.

694
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:23,840
One of the biggest pro wrestling 
stars of the 1990s.

695
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:27,120
We learned overnight that 
the Ultimate Warrior has died.

696
00:40:28,160 --> 00:40:31,080
It's probably one of the most 
startling things

697
00:40:31,240 --> 00:40:33,160
that ever happened in wrestling

698
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:35,960
after almost 20 years, 
the guy finally comes back

699
00:40:36,120 --> 00:40:38,760
has a chance to at least 
resurrect his legacy,

700
00:40:38,920 --> 00:40:44,960
if not his career, 
gets started, drops over dead.

701
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,800
He does his promo
and he gets a standing ovation,

702
00:40:48,960 --> 00:40:52,600
and he goes home. And he dies.

703
00:40:52,760 --> 00:40:56,760
You couldn't write that story. 
So it was sad, it was sad.

704
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:58,800
I was sad for his family.

705
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:01,120
The children weren't gonna have 
a father.

706
00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:04,040
I mean, just everything about it, 
and just so bad.

707
00:41:04,200 --> 00:41:08,040
Nobody should ever have 
to see their loved one die like that.

708
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:10,440
I mean, I was sad for the fans.

709
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,200
I was sad that people 
had lost something

710
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:15,040
that meant so much to them,

711
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,960
this character, this gimmick, 
the Ultimate Warrior.

712
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:19,920
Everything about it was horrible.

713
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,840
I would say that Warrior 
never said anything anymore truthful

714
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:25,880
than his last words on  Raw.

715
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:30,120
Every man's heart one day beats 
its final beat.

716
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:32,640
His lungs breath their final breath.

717
00:41:32,800 --> 00:41:34,800
You're gonna breathe 
your last breath.

718
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:36,800
Your heart will beat 
its last time.

719
00:41:36,960 --> 00:41:41,600
We never suspected it'd be 
that quick, that soon for him.

720
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,400
Rest in peace.

721
00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:50,680
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