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00:30Very few people in the history of wrestling have gone from start to pinnacle as fast as the Ultimate Warrior did.
00:39History has been out here!
00:42He had a phenomenal 8x10.
00:44He looked great.
00:46Vince was about the bodies.
00:48Warrior caught on to that and he took it to a whole different level.
00:52He had dreams, he had an intensity, and there was absolutely nothing that was going to stop him from becoming something.
01:01But the real man behind the face paint, Jim Helwig, contradicted the ideals of his heroic alter ego, becoming one of wrestling's most contentious figures.
01:12When Jim would get in the ring, he honestly thought he became the warrior.
01:16I was sitting in part-time now, waiting for the next spaceship, the airplanes.
01:20For quite a while there, he was absolutely batshit insane.
01:25He thought he was better than other people.
01:27He didn't want to learn the wrestling business because he needed to like it.
01:30My sense of that chronic paranoia, when's it all going to end?
01:34Helwig's divisive behavior behind the scenes would cut his reign short and leave behind a complicated legacy steeped in controversy.
01:44And now a sad note to pass along.
01:46The death of one of the biggest pro-wrestling stars of the 1990s.
01:49When I heard that he had died the way that he had died, it hurt.
01:55He was a moment in time.
01:56He was a very colorful, powerful character for a brief moment in time.
02:14It's been very well documented about how he was difficult to work with.
02:19That the arrogance and the fame and the ego and all of that was growing as his popularity grew.
02:27But, you know, he would come home and I would see the sadness and the insecurity and the self-doubt.
02:37So, you know, people aren't always what they seem to be.
02:44People only share their true selves with the people they're absolutely closest to.
02:48Sometimes they're troubled and I just don't think that it's fair to judge them just by one or two things that you saw.
02:56My name is Sherry Tyree and I was married to Jim Helwig, the ultimate warrior, from 1982 to 1991.
03:03This picture was us backstage.
03:05It was really nice to have fans give us pictures and just walk up to you when you'd come in from outside and say,
03:13Hey, I took this great picture of you and your husband and it was just, it was a very, very happy time then.
03:18Somebody gave me a picture, a fan gave me this picture and it's him with a little boy in his lap with a face painted and then the little doll's face painted.
03:25This picture after he won Mr. Georgia, he's a beast there. Oh my God, he's so big.
03:32When I first met him, he was just massive, absolutely massive. He literally had the largest shoulders I've ever seen on a man.
03:44And the next competitor is Jim Helwig.
03:47At that time, you know, bodybuilding was huge and he had been doing some amateur shows and all of that.
03:56And I thought this guy is just amazing. Like he really has got it going on. This guy has big dreams, big plans.
04:04Our first date, he said, come and pick me up from the bar that he was bouncing out.
04:09So I go and then all of a sudden I see the doors fly open and he's got this guy by the neck and he's like,
04:16basically just drops him in the parking lot. And then he went back inside and then he got the trash from the bar and he took the trash out.
04:24And I was just like in shock and I started laughing. He goes, oh, I guess you saw me take the trash out.
04:29I was like, yeah, both times. Should I just run now? I mean, should I just, you know, go? Should I just leave?
04:37But then the rest of the night was, you know, wonderful. We just literally sat on his couch and just talked for hours.
04:43And that's when he told me he was a chiropractic student, took up weight training and bodybuilding.
04:48And from that, I was bold enough to think after I saw the changes in my scrawny little body that I could make changes in my life another way.
04:55So I set a goal for myself to an education, become a doctor of chiropractic. So those were my goals.
05:02During that time in school, they had discussed, you know, genetics. And he had told me about his grandfathers, that they had died at like in their fifties, in their early fifties.
05:14One of the teachers had said to him, you know, hey, you know, if you have that in your family, that doesn't look so great for you.
05:21And I think there was something about that that just woke him up and scared him.
05:27But he tried to kind of play it off like, you know, I got to get it all in now because I may not be around that long.
05:33His whole drive since the beginning, since the first night I ever met him was to be somebody and to be something.
05:41His drive was to be rich, to be famous. And he was so driven and dedicated like nobody I have ever seen in my life.
05:52And he told me what every woman wants to hear. He told me, protect me for the rest of my life.
05:58Jim and Sherry were married on October 2nd, 1982. And shortly after, Jim put his chiropractic career on hold to pursue bodybuilding dreams in Los Angeles.
06:15It was there Jim befriended a young Steve Borden, better known today as wrestler Sting.
06:22Steve convinces Jim they can make money together in wrestling and they send out promotional packages across the country.
06:29The first to call is Memphis promoter, Jerry Jarrett.
06:35Jerry Jarrett in Memphis was known as a promoter who would take chances on new and unknown talent.
06:41From Atlanta, Georgia and from California, the Freedom Fighters.
06:46I'm Jim Cornette. I've been a promoter, matchmaker, announcer and manager in pro wrestling for 40 years.
06:55And I was not a fan of the Ultimate Warrior.
06:58They're going to be involved in a single fall match coming up here.
07:03When Borden and Hellwood got to Memphis and showed up at the TV studio, it was rotten.
07:10But you could tell that they had some physical charisma.
07:16You wanted to look at them. You just didn't want to see what they ended up doing.
07:21Look at these men. Look at them.
07:23Okay, buddy. Well, you know there's a lot more to it than just being big.
07:26So the promoters decided, you know, these guys may make it, but we don't have time to do on the job training.
07:32And so they started looking for a place to send them so they could get rid of them.
07:36So Hellwig and Borden go to Mid-South.
07:39And that's where the future of professional wrestling was shaped without anybody knowing it.
07:45Ladies and gentlemen, the most awesome tag team of professional wrestling, the Blade Runners!
07:54When the Blade Runners came to UWF, I was a broadcaster.
08:03I'm Jim Ross, the voice of AEW wrestling.
08:07I've never met or seen a wrestler with less ability than the Ultimate Warrior.
08:13Hellwig was very narcissistic.
08:16I look this good. I've got a great smile. I have wonderful teeth.
08:21What more could a promoter want? Well, I don't know. Maybe could you wrestle?
08:25Sir, this man gets him a body slam.
08:27The wrestlers liked Steve a little bit more, and he was more trainable, whereas Jim was hard-headed.
08:33I didn't have the personality to take it. I didn't like to be handled that way.
08:38And Steve was more that he liked to have his hand held.
08:41This is where I started seeing Jim change, where I saw this kind of side of him that was more selfish.
08:48You know, at the time, I didn't, you know, I didn't get much thought to what he's going to do or how he's going to succeed in the business.
08:57You know, I concentrated more on what I needed to do.
09:00They were two completely different people with a different idea of what they really wanted to do.
09:06Steve was all in, but Jim always, I think, on the inside, he wanted to do something on his own.
09:13That his size and all of that would get more attention.
09:17Despite his limited in-ring ability, Jim's physique is undeniable.
09:23After parting ways with Sting, he looks to gain stardom in one of wrestling's most groundbreaking territories.
09:34World class had the hottest syndication in the country.
09:37So if you could get on world class, every promoter in the country wanted you when you finished here.
09:42My name is David Manning. I was the referee, promoter, a booker with world class wrestling back in the heydays.
09:52This is the third controversial finish.
09:54When we brought him in, the world class fans had never seen him.
09:57So we just built the story we wanted and we created the star we wanted.
10:01Weighing in excess of 300 pounds, the Dingo Warrior.
10:09We started trying to think of a name and I forget exactly who came up with the Dingo Warrior.
10:14Their pitch was, well, think of a wild dog. This is a wild warrior because he was a hill.
10:17I thought he was Australian when I saw his name the first time.
10:20So what is a Dingo Warrior?
10:22I have no idea. Nobody else did either. It was literally just the name.
10:28And then I remember us like going to Hancock Fabrics or something, you know, and cutting the streamers.
10:33It was cheap trunks. The paint was cheap. It was what we could afford at the time.
10:38And there you go. You have the Dingo Warrior.
10:43This guy is a monster. A muscle monster.
10:48Probably his first 15, 20 matches we gave him people to slaughter.
10:52Oh, there goes one. And here's Dingo. Hammer away, I'll tell you.
10:57The more the fans cheered, the bigger the Dingo Warrior's ego got.
11:02The bigger the Dingo Warrior's ego got, the harder it was to work with the Dingo Warrior in the ring.
11:07And I think that history followed him everywhere.
11:14It was basically, I've got the best body. I should beat everyone.
11:19And I'm not going to spend a lot of time learning this craft because I don't care about it.
11:24I just want to be a TV star.
11:26The only place that a wrestler with that kind of attitude could find a home in the 80s was in the WWF.
11:37In 1987, there was no grander stage in wrestling than the WWF.
11:46Wrestler Jim Helwig is now one step closer to achieving his dreams of being in the spotlight.
11:52And his life with his wife, Sherry, is also about to change forever.
11:56So this is the letter asking Jim to come to the WWF.
12:01I mean, he just knew that everything was going to change when he got this.
12:05He was so happy.
12:06No matter what territory you were in, you knew that if you were going to make money and you were going to be on top, that is where you had to go.
12:13And I knew that this was probably going to change the entire dynamic of our marriage because I knew that he was going to be on the road 20, 25 days a month.
12:21And I mean, it was basically going to be a long distance relationship.
12:25And so he had assured me, you know, once I start making some money, I want you to come on the road at least seven days a month or something like that.
12:31And so I did go to some of these beginning matches.
12:34And they had him working with some of the job guys, you know, Barry Horowitz, those guys.
12:42And those matches, they were pretty rough.
12:46The Jingo Warrior.
12:51His big thing with me was, I want you to sit in the crowd.
12:54I want you to watch the matches and I want you to give me your feedback on what the people's reactions are.
12:59And people were up getting popcorn.
13:03You know, going to the concession stand.
13:05I mean, I mean, they looked at him, but it wasn't like, wow, this guy's amazing.
13:10Who's this guy?
13:14He knew that if he was going to make it there, that he was going to have to figure out what his gimmick was going to be and where he was going to go with the character.
13:23And I know that Vince saw a lot in him.
13:25And they had this great connection and this friendship.
13:27And I mean, I think he really looked up to Vince.
13:30And I know Vince did not like the name Dingo Warrior.
13:34Who was?
13:35The Ultimate Warrior.
13:37Vince said, we want you to do Warrior, but we don't want Dingo.
13:41And so the first time wrestled Terry Give, they did a pre-take where they used to put the little screen up in the corner back then.
13:47There are you WWE fans out there looking for some type of direction.
13:51You came to the right place, brother, because you're looking at the Ultimate Warrior.
13:55His energy, his mannerisms, his jargon began to come together there.
13:59And when you look at these bangs, the only thing that blows through these bangs is the power of the Warrior.
14:04Power!
14:05You know, he's not the great wrestler, but Vince saw the intensity.
14:09What a close line!
14:10And so he knew if he could get the people's attention with that, then he could turn that into something.
14:16You know, and that's when the shaking of the rope started and just, okay, I've got to go out there and I've got to grab the attention.
14:22And then, you know, he's got to be kind of a mystery.
14:25People have to kind of figure out, who is this guy?
14:28Where is he from?
14:29And that's where the part's unknown.
14:31Where's he from?
14:32And he's from parts unknown.
14:33I was sitting in parts unknown, waiting for the next spaceship to hire planes.
14:38Warrior's promo style was unique, irreverent.
14:41Sometimes it had to be interpreted.
14:44Fear is the air that towers breathe!
14:48What'd he say?
14:49His promos were nonsensical.
14:53At best, they made no sense.
14:57The conditions that I have have already continued to worship.
15:02As I have broken us from all the straight figures and all the rubber roads across these weak planets.
15:09We would get in the car and he would just crack himself up.
15:11And he'd go, what did I say?
15:13What was that?
15:14You know, I mean, everybody looked at him as this intense, serious, aggressive, ultimate warrior.
15:21And he was those things.
15:22But he could also be extremely funny.
15:26But I promise you, his entrance music was the thing that really was the catalyst.
15:30You hear that music, you stop what you're doing.
15:40He just flies to the ring, shaking the ropes.
15:43He's got all the colors on.
15:45And, wow, it was game over from that point on.
15:48You take a guy that looks that good.
15:54You give him music.
15:56You put every big star in wrestling in the ring with him and tell him to lay down.
16:00He's got to win.
16:01He's got to win decisively.
16:02You smash him over.
16:03It's called a push, a big push.
16:06And you make this guy the biggest star that you can by disguising his weaknesses and exposing his strengths.
16:15That's a living cartoon character.
16:17It's coming to life.
16:18It comes to your hometown.
16:20You can get that cartoon character's autograph.
16:22There's nothing else like that.
16:24And then the merchandising became a huge thing.
16:26Hey, fellas.
16:27What's going on?
16:28Nothing, Dad.
16:29Drop kit!
16:30Wrestling buddies want to be your buddies.
16:33His favorite merchandising was his wrestling buddy.
16:37I see this picture of him and his wrestling buddy.
16:40I don't think that people understood how excited he was about the wrestling buddy.
16:45I don't know.
16:46There's just something about it.
16:47It just made him feel like he had arrived.
16:50We were able to buy our first house on the lake.
16:54The original part of the house we bought was $100,000.
16:57We added a $100,000 addition.
16:59It wasn't crazy.
17:00He had his home gym.
17:02You know, the house was just absolutely amazing.
17:04He's getting these huge checks.
17:05We're happy.
17:06And he's getting this big push to the top.
17:09And I think that is where the friction came in between him and the other wrestlers.
17:15I'm Jake the Snake Roberts.
17:17And, well, he debuted while I was in the WWF.
17:20He would fly off the handle very quickly.
17:23Very hard to get along with.
17:25Impossible to talk to.
17:26And then he was a complete jerk in the ring.
17:29Bobby Heenan was not a fan.
17:31Bobby had a bad neck from his years in wrestling.
17:37And he always told guys to take care of his neck.
17:40He walked up to him and said, hey, you know, you broke my neck.
17:44He didn't care.
17:46And rang.
17:47Lombardi's bell was ringing right now.
17:51You know, there's an unwritten rule in wrestling that says the number one thing is you take care of your opponent.
17:57He threw that one out the window.
17:59I'm not trying to be a prick here when I say that literally he couldn't wrestle.
18:03He couldn't talk.
18:04He got over because he looked like a million dollars and the most successful promoter in the world pushed him to the moon.
18:10And there's nothing else to say.
18:14Those guys talking about how bad of a wrestler he was really affected him.
18:19And then it kind of made him second guess himself a lot.
18:23I think they were spot on about him in some occasions.
18:27But I don't think they really understood that there was more to him than that.
18:32And that he did have a sensitive and a very insecure side.
18:40You know, he kind of grew up just a really scrawny, insecure little kid.
18:44I mean, he weighed like 140 pounds.
18:46His dad left home when he was 12.
18:48And that was very, very traumatic for him.
18:51He told me that, you know, his dad was cheating with one of the neighbors.
18:55It really did something to him.
18:57It caused him a great deal of pain.
18:58And when he started working out and he saw changes in his body, he got excited about that.
19:03And it made him realize that he could be more.
19:07I think that all of us carry around that really insecure inner child.
19:12And I think that all the trauma that we have as children, sometimes we take with us.
19:16And in his case, he had a very severe anxiety disorder.
19:20He'd had it for years.
19:21He's always very anxious.
19:23How would he show that sadness and insecurity at home?
19:27Well, I mean, I think he was a human being.
19:29I mean, he had insecurities.
19:30He cried.
19:31He got frustrated.
19:32He wanted to be the best.
19:34He put a lot of pressure on himself to be the best.
19:38You know, he did not want to be that scrawny little kid anymore.
19:41So he had to make this work.
19:51By 1990, the Ultimate Warrior is the biggest star in the WWF aside from one man, the immortal Hulk Hogan.
19:59The final piece of Vince McMahon's plan to crystallize a new megastar takes hold at WrestleMania VI.
20:10WrestleMania VI was in the Sky Dome in Toronto, one of the great North American cities for wrestling.
20:16Besides Hulk Hogan, the Ultimate Warrior was the biggest box office attraction in wrestling.
20:23He found out a few months before that he was going to be taking Hulk's butt.
20:28And it was the greatest joy of his life.
20:30He just thought, wow, this is going to be amazing.
20:32And he was very pumped about it.
20:34And then it came.
20:35And WrestleMania VI was there.
20:37Champion against champion.
20:40Title for title.
20:41This is what it's all about.
20:43He was the most nervous I've ever seen in my entire life.
20:46He had severe anxiety.
20:48Take a look at this.
20:49Look at the intensity.
20:51Eye to eye right here, face to face.
20:55I literally could physically feel the match.
20:58Like I was like feeling it, you know.
21:01I mean, it was just the emotion of it.
21:03The excitement in the arena.
21:05I've just never felt anything like that.
21:16Vince felt that six or seven years of Hulk Hogan steadily on top was enough.
21:20He didn't want to get stale.
21:21He thought that the Warrior was ready to take it.
21:28Hogan had been on his breakneck schedule.
21:30He was tired.
21:31He was beat down.
21:32And he was ready to take a break.
21:33And so Vince made the decision to pass the torch.
21:37It's the only time in that decade run with the WWF that Hulk Hogan actually legitimately got beaten.
21:44Pinned one, two, three in the ring by an opponent.
21:47And it was the ultimate Warrior.
21:49Here it is.
21:50Here it is.
21:52Oh, he moved out of the way.
21:58And the big splash.
21:59One, two.
22:00He got him.
22:01He got him.
22:02He got him.
22:04Unbelievable.
22:05For Hogan to do what Hogan did for Ultimate Warrior is a miracle.
22:11He carried the Warrior to immortality at WrestleMania VI.
22:15And they did it live, which is even more astonishing.
22:18After the match, he kind of went off on his own for a little bit, just to take it all in.
22:26And for him just to give himself a big pat on the back and say, wow, nobody believed in me, but I did it.
22:31I mean, he was rich, and now he was the world champion.
22:35But that was short-lived.
22:37Because literally, like two months after, Jim Hoeg left and the Ultimate Warrior came home.
22:50He became really erratic.
22:51He started staying on the road, which he never did before.
22:55He was disconnected.
22:56Something was off.
22:57You call his behavior erratic.
22:59What do you mean by that?
23:03He seemed altered.
23:06I mean, I didn't see anything, but he definitely was not.
23:11He was not well.
23:14He was on the road, and I tried to call his room, and he didn't answer.
23:18So I had them do a wellness check on him.
23:21You ask any wrestling wife out there, when you don't hear from your husband,
23:27you get scared.
23:29And when I called back, the guy goes, he's there.
23:32He was asleep.
23:33And that was the end of it.
23:35I thought back to something somebody told me a long time ago.
23:39There's always going to be women that want to sleep with your husband,
23:42but it's the ones that want to steal your life that you have to worry about.
23:45So I called the room.
23:47He answered the phone.
23:48And I heard a girl's voice.
23:50And I immediately thought, oh my gosh, I'm devastated.
23:55I started going through his things, and I found this day planner.
24:01And I looked at page one, and page two, and page three, and it would be a girl's name.
24:05And the town.
24:06I told him.
24:07I said, when you come, I said, when you come, I'm going to leave the house.
24:11And I said, oh my gosh, I'm devastated.
24:12And I said, oh my gosh, I'm devastated.
24:13I started going through his things, and I found this day planner.
24:17And I looked at page one, and page two, and page three, and it would be a girl's name.
24:23And the town.
24:24I told him.
24:25I said, when you come home, you're going to be served papers.
24:39And I'm divorcing you.
24:41I didn't wait for a response.
24:43You know, my worst fear had come true.
24:46I had just lost my husband.
24:53By 1991, Jim Helwig's nine-year marriage to Sherry comes to an end.
25:04And to make matters worse, he loses the WWF Championship.
25:12Feeling betrayed, his relationship with his boss, Vince McMahon, begins to deteriorate.
25:18I was in Orlando, and Vince came to me and said, we're going to put you and Warrior together.
25:27And give you your championship run.
25:29Which I had been waiting for for years.
25:31But before we can put you and Warrior together, you need to go and get the okay from him.
25:37I'm like, what?
25:39What?
25:40What do you mean?
25:42You're the effing boss, man.
25:44He goes, Jake, it's just the way we have to do these things.
25:48So I went to his private dressing room and knocked on the door a couple of times.
25:53What?
25:54Come in.
25:55So I came in and he got right in my face and said, let me tell you something.
25:59I don't care anything about your family.
26:02I don't care anything about you.
26:03I don't care anything about wrestling.
26:05I just want to do my shit.
26:07Here's the deal.
26:08You better not miss a show.
26:10Because if you miss a show, you're missing my money.
26:12And if you mess with my money, I'm going to get you.
26:15End of story.
26:16Get out.
26:17I walked out and I was in shock.
26:20For this jackass to come to me like that was like pissing in my mouth.
26:26But I had to do it if I wanted that championship run.
26:29After SummerSlam, it would be me and Warrior head to head, making more money than I ever thought I'd make.
26:37Plans for Jake the Snake Roberts would soon be derailed as tensions between McMahon and Hellwig begin to boil over.
26:45Desperate to remain at the top of the card, Jim plans a drastic move.
26:52At this point, he moved into his home that he bought in Arizona.
26:57He decided he wanted to live the big life, so he bought himself a million dollar mansion in Scottsdale.
27:03He called me up because of our history and he needed somebody that he could trust, somebody that he could talk to.
27:10He wanted me to come out.
27:13He had decided in his mind, in his paranoid mind, that he wanted everything that Hulk had.
27:21He wanted the same money, he wanted the same cut of the merchandising, he wanted it all.
27:27So he's like, I'm gonna give Vince this letter and if he fires me, he fires me.
27:33I was like, you can't do this.
27:35I go, you can't hold up TV.
27:37And he's like, well I've lost my whole life and I feel like I deserve what he has.
27:42And at that point, there's absolutely no getting through to him.
27:50And I knew that this was gonna end really bad for him.
27:58Leading up to the SummerSlam pay-per-view in 1991, with 20,000 fans in attendance and millions more watching at home, Jim delivers a letter to Vince laying out a list of demands.
28:12He threatens that unless he is treated creatively and financially in line with Hulk Hogan, he would refuse to show up.
28:20His relationship with Vince is the most complicated thing.
28:24He loved Vince.
28:26And I think that he looked at him as kind of like a father figure in a way.
28:32I actually believe that a lot of it was he just wanted more attention from him.
28:37And anytime he asked Vince for something, Vince gave it to him.
28:40You know, I want my own locker room.
28:42I wanted a limousine all the time.
28:44I want the Learjets.
28:45I mean, he just, he wanted it all.
28:47And I think at that point, Vince had grown tired and weary of the demands.
28:52And it came to the point where, I mean, what do you do?
28:56It's a business and you don't hold up a show.
28:59Vince is infuriated, but he has one rule.
29:03Get the match in the ring at all costs.
29:06Vince temporarily placates Warriors' demands, but he has no intention of honoring them after the event.
29:14I was there at SummerSlam, man.
29:15It was in Madison Square Garden.
29:17I'm so amped up, man.
29:19I am going to start making thousands and thousands of dollars every time I go through that curve.
29:25I was standing next to Vince when Warrior came out of the ring.
29:29Warrior!
29:33And Vince put his hand out and stopped and he goes, by the way, you're fired.
29:43Now get the out of my building.
29:46And Vince looked at me and he goes, you got the worst luck of any human being I've ever met.
29:51To say that I wanted to kill that son of a bitch would be putting it lightly.
29:57I carried that anger for years.
30:01This is the letter from Vince McMahon to the Warrior.
30:05Dear Jim, as you know, on September 23, 1987, you signed a booking contract with Titan Sports.
30:11At the time you signed the contract, you were a relatively obscure wrestler with an enthusiastic, professed desire to succeed.
30:19Unfortunately, it now appears the fame that you have obtained through the efforts of Titan Sports has gone to your head.
30:25Frankly, you've become impossible to work with.
30:28You have become a legend in your own mind.
30:31You are certainly entitled to your opinion.
30:33However, you are not entitled to vent your feelings by breaching and threatening to breach your contract.
30:39This was a serious mistake on your part.
30:42Jim's greatest downfall of all time was his inability to see things from somebody else's perspective.
30:51He just always thought that his way was the right way.
31:02After threatening to no-show Summerslam, Jim Helwig is suspended by Vince McMahon.
31:07Over the next 18 months, both engage in several legal battles, leading to Jim's eventual firing.
31:14Feeling powerless, Jim makes a bold move to regain control of his life and the character he left behind.
31:22Warrior's run with the WWF came to an end in 1992, and Warrior went home and changed his legal name to Warrior
31:29because they owned Ultimate Warrior, and they were mad at each other for several years.
31:34The Warrior became Warrior.
31:37Not the Warrior.
31:38Not Jim the Warrior, Hellwig.
31:41He changed his name legally to Warrior.
31:44You know, I changed my name because they were saying,
31:46Look, whatever you did for the last 15 years, we own it.
31:49You can't even refer to it.
31:51So, I started using my character that I spent all those years developing, creating an entrepreneurial project.
31:59Why do you think he legally changed his name to Warrior?
32:02This is just my opinion because I was not his wife then.
32:06He had to reinvent himself. You have to make a living. You have to have a career.
32:10You know, he built the character and he just felt like that that's probably what he was going to have to do.
32:15By 1996, Hulk Hogan and other WWF wrestlers have jumped ship to their arch-competitor, WCW.
32:24What a door!
32:27In order to recapture WWF's former success, Vince decides to approach Warrior for a second chance.
32:34Along with members of his executive team, Vince flies to Warrior's new home in Arizona to make amends.
32:41During this talk and during this lunch, all the Warrior talked about was his concepts and his visions and his ideas for spreading Destrucity.
32:55You're probably wondering out there in TV land, what the f*** is Destrucity?
33:00Destrucity was the truth in between destiny and reality where you could stay true to yourself while achieving your goals
33:12because he thought in his demented mind he was going to be some kind of motivational person for children and beleaguered people across America.
33:22As I got on with the entrepreneurial project and started thinking about public speaking, got interested in reading and writing,
33:28Ultimate Warrior always represented like a true-to-life superhero comic book character.
33:33So I wrote the story around this graphically created Ultimate Warrior comic book character.
33:38So now he wants to be a motivational speaker. He wants comic books.
33:43Look, there's nothing wrong with any of that stuff if you're qualified to do it.
33:47This is time in my life I could never get back.
33:50It was a total waste of a trip.
33:54Although his staff has major apprehensions, McMahon takes a risk by hiring Warrior once again
34:01and his big return is scheduled for WrestleMania 12.
34:04WrestleMania!
34:08Warrior's opponent is rising star Hunter Hurst Helmsley, better known today as Triple H.
34:15He basically sold nothing.
34:17Peter Reid coming right about.
34:18Yeah!
34:19It's over!
34:21Took Triple H's finish and stood right back up and looked at him.
34:25Beat him up and beat him in a minute and a half, flat.
34:27Side, yeah!
34:30Just trashed him, just destroyed him.
34:32Because he was the Warrior and he was the most important thing in the world.
34:35On his chest to a neck!
34:37The pop was huge, but only for a few weeks.
34:42When the 1996 WWF fan saw the guy that he remembered as being the big star from 1990,
34:51it really wasn't as good as I remember him.
34:53Because things had changed.
34:55He was not going to sell lots of merchandise.
34:57This trucity was not going to become a household word.
35:00The comic book was not going to be on all the shelves.
35:02Things were not going to be going his way.
35:05And so Vince made the decision, we don't need him on our roster.
35:08Warrior's career in the WWF is over, and it isn't the storybook ending everyone was hoping for.
35:19Defeated and disappointed, Warrior retreats back to Arizona.
35:24Years later, he goes back to his bodybuilding roots and opens his own gym.
35:29It was there he would cross paths again with his ex-wife, Sherry.
35:34I think that's probably one of the times where he was very, very, very happy.
35:38He had built this from the ground up.
35:40And I don't know, I just saw like a new energy in him that I hadn't seen in a long time.
35:45And he and I were friends at that point.
35:47And he was dating, and I was dating, and it wasn't like weird or anything.
35:52It was just nice just to have him in my life and have him as a friend.
35:57And then I met my now husband there, and he met his wife.
36:02And then when I got pregnant with my daughter, it got to the point where he and I decided
36:09that it was not a good idea for me to be in the gym anymore.
36:13Because I had fallen in love, and he had fallen in love with somebody else.
36:19And it was going to make our significant others, you know, very uncomfortable for us to be around each other.
36:24And he stood in front of me, and he took my hands.
36:28He said, I want to thank you for all these years of being my wife.
36:34And I'm so sorry for all the pain that I've ever caused you.
36:41And I wish I could have been a faithful husband.
36:46And just the fact that he acknowledged that meant a lot to me.
36:51And know that I always loved you.
36:55And I wish you nothing but happiness and the best.
36:58And I know you're going to be a great mom.
37:01And that conversation ended our relationship.
37:05And that was the last time that I saw him.
37:12With Warrior's wrestling career in the rearview mirror and his relationship with Sherry officially over,
37:19he was not done creating controversy.
37:22And would spend the next decade using his fleeting celebrity status to become a conservative motivational speaker.
37:29The woman who would become my wife walked into my life.
37:33She was conservative.
37:34And through her I realized I had been, without knowing directly, all along living by a conservative philosophy of life.
37:42You know, I was in my mid-30s.
37:44I wasn't just going to sit or retire and just not do anything.
37:48So I started with a real simple idea.
37:51Just going out talking to young people all different ages.
37:54And I don't pull my punches about anything.
37:56He thought he was going to be a motivational speaker and a coach.
38:00He was actually a far right wing nutcase who hated gay people.
38:05Let me come down off my politically correct horse.
38:09Because queering doesn't make the world work.
38:21And said, you know, really horrible things about a variety of cultures and peoples.
38:27His political rants or his anti-gay rants or his right wing rants or his homophobia.
38:34I've never yet understood the first thing about how this guy's head worked.
38:39And then he would say a variety of things about a lot of the guys in the business that may or may not have been true.
38:47But coming from him was the most unpalatable of all.
38:51Hulkamania is entwined in society by the example you've set of how to fuck up a life.
39:00I mean, you didn't care if your wife slept with other guys.
39:04I mean, you're a real piece of shit, Terry.
39:07Here was the most unprofessional, argumentative, hard to work with, egotistical, untalented guy
39:15that all these people had a hand in making a star.
39:19And then all he did afterwards was trash him.
39:21After spending years publicly disparaging his contemporaries and embroiled in lawsuits with the WWE,
39:31it was unlikely that Warrior would ever find himself face to face with any of his former opponents.
39:37That would all change in 2014 in a move that shocked the wrestling world when it was announced that the Ultimate Warrior would be headlining the Hall of Fame ceremony at WrestleMania 30.
39:50One of his longtime enemies would be lying in wait for his return.
39:55I had a roll of quarters in my pocket.
39:58I was gonna beat his ass.
40:00And I'm waiting on him, looking for him.
40:03Of course, Warrior being Warrior, they had him in a private area and security guards and all that.
40:09I had to wait.
40:10I had to wait.
40:11I had to wait.
40:12And I'm boiling.
40:13I'm boiling.
40:14I'm boiling.
40:15And then all of a sudden, somebody tapped me on the back.
40:20I turned around and he was a warrior.
40:22He put his hands up.
40:23He goes, please, just let me do this.
40:26I need to apologize to you and your family.
40:29That's who I was then, but that wasn't me.
40:32But if it means anything, just know that I'm sorry.
40:37He disarmed me.
40:40Another lesson in life, man.
40:43That's what I got.
40:44A lesson.
40:47At the Hall of Fame weekend, Warrior went around.
40:49He made amends with some of the talent that was there.
40:52I think it probably warmed Vince's heart more than anyone
40:56because he just always likes to bring people back into the fold.
40:59You look great.
41:00Congratulations.
41:01Look at you.
41:02You always look great.
41:03You look better than anybody.
41:04He was on his best behavior and he did what everyone considered to be a fine speech.
41:10I've never interacted with anybody in this business that hasn't taught me something.
41:16The inductions were made and his family was there and it seemed like an improbable storybook ending for this multi-decade contentious relationship.
41:26The next night, he comes out on Monday Night Raw live on television and cuts another promo.
41:36And it's a very inspirational speech that people actually understood.
41:40I am Ultimate Warrior.
41:43You are the Ultimate Warrior fans.
41:46And the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever.
41:57Warrior didn't look healthy that night.
41:59Like he had really gotten fatigued or hadn't been able to sleep or something was off.
42:05My sister called me and she's like, I'm so sorry about Jim.
42:11And I'm like, what are you talking about?
42:14What do you, what do you mean?
42:18Somewhere around 12 hours after that final Monday Night Raw appearance,
42:23he was leaving his hotel room, walking to the car the next morning, had a heart attack and died.
42:28One of the biggest pro wrestling stars of the 1990s.
42:35We learned overnight that the Ultimate Warrior has died.
42:40It's probably one of the most startling things that ever happened in wrestling.
42:45After almost 20 years, a guy finally comes back, has a chance to at least resurrect his legacy,
42:51if not his career, gets started, drops over dead.
42:58He does his promo, and he gets a standing ovation, and he goes home, and he dies.
43:06He couldn't write that story.
43:08So it was sad. It was sad.
43:11I was sad for his family.
43:12The children weren't going to have a father.
43:14I mean, just everything about it, and just so bad.
43:17Nobody should ever have to see their loved one die like that.
43:22I mean, I was sad for the fans.
43:24I was sad that people had lost something that meant so much to them.
43:29This character, this gimmick, the Ultimate Warrior.
43:32Like, everything about it was so horrible.
43:34I would say that Warrior never said anything any more truthful than his last words on Raw.
43:40Every man's heart one day beats its final beat.
43:46His lungs breathe their final breath.
43:48You're going to breathe your last breath.
43:50Your heart's going to beat its last time.
43:52It's just we never suspected.
43:54It'd be that quick, that soon for him.
43:59Rest in peace.
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