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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
00:36did.
00:39He had a phenomenal 8x10. He looked great.
00:46Vince was about these bodies. Warrior 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
00:59something.
01:01But the real man behind the face paint, Jim Helwig, contradicted the ideals of his heroic alter ego, becoming one
01:09of 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 to hire planes.
01:20For quite a while there, he was absolutely batshit insane.
01:24He thought he was better than other people. He didn't want to learn the wrestling business because he needed to
01:29like it.
01:30I sensed 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.
01:43And now a sad note to pass along. The death of one of the biggest pro-wrestling stars of the
01:481990s.
01:49When I heard that he had died the way that he had died, it hurt.
01:54He was a moment in time. He 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.
02:20That 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.
02:43People 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
02:55that you saw.
02:57My name is Sherry Tyree and I was married to Jim Helwig, the Ultimate Warrior, from 1982 to 1991.
03:06This picture was us backstage.
03:08It was really nice to have fans give us pictures and just walk up to you when you come in
03:12from outside and say,
03:13Hey, I took this great picture of you and your husband.
03:16And it was just, it was a very, very happy time then.
03:19Somebody gave me a picture. A fan gave me this picture.
03:22And it's him with a little boy in his lap with a face painted and then the little doll's face
03:27painted.
03:29This is a picture after he won Mr. Georgia.
03:32He's a beast there. Oh my God, he's so big.
03:36When I first met him, he was just massive. Absolutely massive.
03:41He literally had the largest shoulders I've ever seen on a man.
03:44And the next competitor is Jim Helwig.
03:50At that time, you know, bodybuilding was huge.
03:53And he had been doing some amateur shows and all of that.
03:56And I thought, this guy is just amazing.
03:58Like, he really has got it going on.
04:01This 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
04:15by the neck.
04:15And he's like, basically just drops him in the parking lot.
04:19And then he went back inside and then he got the trash from the bar and he took the trash
04:24out.
04:25And I was just like in shock and I started laughing.
04:27He goes, oh, I guess you saw me take the trash out.
04:29I was like, yeah, both times.
04:32Should I just run now?
04:33I mean, should I just, you know, go?
04:35Should I just leave?
04:38But then the rest of the night was, you know, wonderful.
04:40We just literally sat on his couch and just talked for hours.
04:44And that's when he told me he was a chiropractic student.
04:46I 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
04:53that 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.
05:01So those were my goals.
05:03During that time in school, they had discussed, you know, genetics.
05:07And he had told me about his grandfathers, that they had died at like in their 50s, in
05:12their early 50s.
05:14One of the teachers had said to him, you know, hey, you know, if you have that in your family,
05:20that doesn't look so great for you.
05:22And 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
05:31because
05:32I may not be around that long.
05:34His whole drive since the beginning, since the first night I ever met him was to be somebody
05:39and to be something.
05:41His drive was to be rich, to be famous.
05:44And 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.
05:56He told me, protect me for the rest of my life.
06:02Jim and Sherry were married on October 2nd, 1982.
06:06And shortly after, Jim put his chiropractic career on hold to pursue bodybuilding dreams in
06:13Los Angeles.
06:13It 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
06:27packages 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.
06:50I'm Jim Cornette.
06:51I'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.
07:00They're going to be involved in a single fall match coming up here.
07:03When Borden and Helwig got to Memphis and showed up at the TV studio, it was rotten.
07:11But you could tell that they had some physical charisma.
07:17You wanted to look at them.
07:18You just didn't want to see what they ended up doing.
07:21Look at these men.
07:22Look at them.
07:23Okay, buddy.
07:24Well, you know there's a lot more to it than just being big.
07:27So the promoters decided, you know, these guys may make it, but we don't have time to do on-the
07:32-job training.
07:33And so they started looking for a place to send them so they could get rid of them.
07:37So Helwig and Borden go to Mid-South.
07:39And that's where the future of professional wrestling was shaped without anybody knowing it.
07:49Ladies and gentlemen, the most awesome tag team of professional wrestling, the Blade Runners!
07:58When the Blade Runners came to UWF, I was a broadcaster.
08:04I'm Jim Ross, the voice of AEW wrestling.
08:08I've never met or seen a wrestler with less ability than The Ultimate Warrior.
08:15Edward was very narcissistic.
08:17I look this good.
08:18I've got a great smile.
08:20I have wonderful teeth.
08:21What more could a promoter want?
08:23Well, I don't know.
08:24Maybe could you wrestle?
08:26Sir, this guy gets him a body slam.
08:27The wrestlers liked Steve a little bit more.
08:30And he was more trainable, whereas Jim was hard-headed.
08:34I didn't have the personality to take it.
08:36I 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
08:47selfish.
08:51You know, at the time, I didn't get much thought to what he's going to do or how he's going
08:55to 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.
09:08But 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.
09:18Despite 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.
09:44My name is David Manning.
09:46I was the referee, promoter, a booker with world-class wrestling back in the heydays.
09:52This is the third controversial finish.
09:55When 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.
10:02Weighing 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.
10:16This is a wild warrior because he was a hill.
10:18I thought he was Australian when I saw his name the first time.
10:21So what is a Dingo Warrior?
10:23I have no idea.
10:25Nobody else did either.
10:26It was literally just the name.
10:29And then I remember us like going to Hancock Fabrics or something, you know, and cutting the streamers.
10:34It was cheap trunks, the paint was cheap.
10:36It was what we could afford at the time.
10:39And there you go, you have the Dingo Warrior.
10:44This guy is a monster, a muscle monster.
10:49Probably his first 15, 20 matches we gave him people to slaughter.
10:52Oh, there goes one.
10:54And here's Dingo, hammering away on carry.
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.
11:08And I think that history followed him everywhere.
11:10You the master.
11:11You the king of the world.
11:13You the king of the world.
11:14It was basically, I've got the best body, I should beat everyone, and I'm not going to spend a lot
11:21of 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
11:33the WWF.
11:40In 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.
11:57So this is the letter asking Jim to come to the WWF.
12:02I 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
12:10going 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
12:19he was going to be on the road 20, 25 days a month.
12:22And, 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
12:29the road at least seven days a month or something like that.
12:32And so I did go to some of these beginning matches.
12:35And 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, I want you to watch the
12:55matches, and I want you to give me your feedback on what the people's reactions are.
13:02And people were up getting popcorn, you know, going to the concession stand.
13:06I mean, I mean, they looked at him, but it wasn't like, wow, this guy's amazing, who's this guy?
13:14He knew that if he was going to make it there, that he was going to have to figure out
13:19what 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, and they had this great connection and this friendship.
13:28And, I mean, I think he really looked up to Vince.
13:31And I know Vince did not like the name Jingo Warrior.
13:35Who was?
13:36Ultimate Warrior!
13:39Vince said, we want you to do Warrior, but we don't want Dingo.
13:42And so, the first time he wrestled Terry Give, they did a pre-take where they used to put the
13:46little screen up in the corner back then.
13:48Where are you WWE fans out there looking for some type of direction?
13:52You 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.
14:00And when you look at these bangs, the only thing that blows through these bangs is the power of the
14:04Warrior!
14:06You know, he's not the great wrestler, but Vince saw the intensity.
14:39What a clothesline!
14:39His promo style was unique, irreverent, sometimes had to be, uh, interpreted.
14:44Fear is the air, the talent's free!
14:48What'd he say?
14:50His promos were nonsensical.
14:54At best, they made no sense.
14:57The conditions that I have, have already continued to worship, as I have broken loose from all the strengthens and
15:06all the rubber robes across these weak planets!
15:09We would get in the car, and he would just crack himself up, and 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, and 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.
15:35You hear that music, you stop what you're doing.
15:40He just flies to the ring, shaking the robes.
15:43He's got all the colors on.
15:45Wow.
15:46It was game over from that point on.
15:53You take a guy that looks that good, you give him music, you put every big star in wrestling in
15:58the ring with him and tell him to lay down.
16:00He's gotta win, he's gotta win decisively.
16:02You smash him over, it'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, it's coming to life, it comes to your hometown.
16:20You can get that cartoon character's autograph, there's nothing else like that.
16:24And then the merchandising became a huge thing.
16:27Hey, fellas, what's going on?
16:28Nothing, Dad.
16:29Drop kit!
16:30Wrestling buddies wanna be your buddies.
16:33His favorite merchandising was his wrestling buddy.
16:37I think 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, there'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, he 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 Jason Snake Roberts.
17:17Well, he debuted while I was in the WWF.
17:20He would fly off the handle very quickly, very hard to get along with, impossible to talk to.
17:27And then he was a complete jerk in the ring.
17:30Bobby Heenan was not a fan.
17:35Bobby had a bad neck from his years in wrestling.
17:38And he always told guys to take care of his neck.
17:41He walked up to him and said, hey, you know, you broke my neck.
17:45Huh.
17:45He didn't care.
17:46That rang.
17:49Lombardi's bell is 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
17:56opponent.
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
18:09to 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, but I don't think they really understood that there
18:31was more to him than that.
18:33And 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.
18:47His dad left home when he was 12.
18:49And 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.
18:59And when he started working out and he saw changes in his body, he got excited about that.
19:04And 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.
19:21He'd had it for years.
19:22He's always very anxious.
19:24How 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.
19:50By 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.
20:17Besides 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.
20:29And it was the greatest joy of his life.
20:31He just thought, wow, this is going to be amazing.
20:33And he was very pumped about it.
20:35And then it came.
20:36And WrestleMania VI was there.
20:39Champion against champion title for a title.
20:42This is what it's all about.
20:43He was the most nervous I've ever seen in my entire life.
20:47He had severe anxiety.
20:49Take a look at this.
20:50Look at the intensity.
20:53Eye to eye right here, face to face.
20:55I literally could physically feel the match.
20:59Like I was like feeling it.
21:01You know, I mean, it was just the emotion of it, the excitement in the arena.
21:05I've just never felt anything like that.
21:08Here we go, Gorilla.
21:13It's Stephanie here at the Sky Dog.
21:15Vince 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.
21:23Wow.
21:24Caught him with the clothesline out to the floor.
21:26Goes Hogan.
21:28Hogan had been on a breakneck schedule.
21:30He was tired.
21:31He was beat down.
21:31And he was ready to take a break.
21:33And so Vince made the decision to pass the torch.
21:36He got him up.
21:37It's the only time in that decade run with the WWF that Hulk Hogan actually legitimately
21:43got beaten, pinned one, two, three in the ring by an opponent.
21:47And it was the ultimate warrior.
21:49Here it is.
21:52Oh, he moved out of the way.
21:57And the big splash.
21:59One, two.
22:01He got him.
22:02He got him.
22:04Unbelievable.
22:06For 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 was even more astonishing.
22:21After the match, he kind of went off on his own for a little bit.
22:24Just 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
22:31me, but I did it.
22:32I 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 Ultimate Warrior came home.
22:50He became really erratic.
22:52He started staying on the road, which he never did before.
22:55He was disconnected.
22:56Something was off.
22:57You call his behavior erratic, what 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, you get scared.
23:28And 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, but it's the ones
23:42that want to steal your life that you have to worry about.
23:46So I called the room, he answered the phone, and I heard a girl's voice.
24:07And I immediately thought, oh my gosh, I'm devastated.
24:13And I started going through his things, and I found this day planner.
24:18And I looked at page one, and page two, and page three, and it would be a girl's name.
24:24And the town...
24:32I told him, I 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.
24:44You know, my worst fear had come true.
24:46I just lost my husband.
24:57By 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.
25:20I was in Orlando, and Vince came to me and said, we're going to put you and Warrior together.
25:26And give you your championship run.
25:30Which I had been waiting for for years.
25:33But before we can put you and Warrior together, you need to go and get the okay from him.
25:39I'm like, what?
25:41What do you mean?
25:43You're the effing boss, man.
25:45He goes, Jake, it's just the way we have to do these things.
25:49So I went to his private dressing room and knocked on the door a couple of times.
25:53What?
25:54Come here.
25:56So I came in, and he got right in my face and said, let me tell you something.
26:00I don't care anything about your family.
26:02I don't care anything about you.
26:04I don't care anything about wrestling.
26:06I just want to do my shit.
26:08Here's the deal.
26:09You better not miss a show.
26:11Because if you miss a show, you're missing my money.
26:13And if you mess with my money, I'm going to get you.
26:16End of story.
26:17Get out.
26:18I 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.
26:30After SummerSlam, it'll 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.
26:46Desperate 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
27:09talk to.
27:11He 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.
27:23He wanted the same cut of the merchandising.
27:25He wanted it all.
27:28So he's like, I'm gonna give, you know, Vince this letter, and if he fires me, he fires me.
27:34I was like, you can't do this.
27:36Like, you can't hold up TV.
27:38And he's like, well, I've lost my whole life, and I feel like I deserve what he has.
27:44And at that point, there's absolutely no getting through to him.
27:49And 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
28:07at home, Jim delivers a letter to Vince laying out a list of demands.
28:11He threatens that unless he is treated creatively and financially in line with Hulk Hogan, he would refuse to show
28:19up.
28:20His relationship with Vince is the most complicated thing.
28:25He 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.
28:41You 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.
29:00Vince is infuriated, but he has one rule.
29:03Get the match in the ring at all costs.
29:06Vince temporarily placates Warrior's demands, but he has no intention of honoring them after the event.
29:14I was there at SummerSlam, man.
29:16It was in Madison Square Garden.
29:18I'm so amped up, man.
29:20I am going to start making thousands and thousands of dollars every time I'm going to do that.
29:25I was standing next to Vince when Warrior came out of the ring.
29:32Warrior!
29:38And Vince put his hand out and stopped and he goes,
29:41By the way, you're fired. Now get the out of my building.
29:47And Vince looked at me and he goes,
29:48You got the worst luck of any human being I've ever met.
29:52To 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.
30:20Unfortunately, it now appears the fame that you have obtained through the efforts of Titan Sports has gone to your
30:25head.
30:26Frankly, 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.
30:34However, 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.
30:44Jim'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 Hellwig is suspended by Vince McMahon.
31:08Over the next 18 months, both engage in several legal battles, leading to Jim's eventual firing.
31:15Feeling 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.
31:26And Warrior went home and changed his legal name to Warrior because they owned Ultimate Warrior.
31:31And they were mad at each other for several years.
31:35The Warrior became Warrior.
31:37Not the Warrior.
31:38Not Jim the Warrior, Hellwig.
31:41He changed his name legally to Warrior.
31:45You 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.
31:50So, 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.
32:07He 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
32:15to do.
32:15By 1996, Hulk Hogan and other WWF wrestlers have jumped ship to their arch competitor, WCW.
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
32:51ideas for spreading destrucity.
32:55You're probably wondering out there in TV land, what the is destrucity?
33:04Destrucity was the truth in between destiny and reality where you could stay true to yourself while achieving your goals
33:13because he thought in his demented mind he was going to be some kind of motivational person for children and
33:20beleaguered people across America.
33:22As I got on with the entrepreneurial projects and started thinking about public speaking, got interested in reading and writing,
33:29Ultimate 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. It was a total waste of a trip.
33:54Although his staff has major apprehensions, McMahon takes a risk by hiring Warrior once again and his big return is
34:02scheduled for WrestleMania 12.
34:09Warrior's opponent is rising star Hunter Hurst Helmsley, better known today as Triple H.
34:15He basically sold nothing.
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.
34:30Just trashed him, just destroyed him because he was the warrior and he was the most important thing in the
34:35world.
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 because things had changed.
34:56He was not going to sell lots of merchandise.
34:58This trucity was not going to become a household word.
35:00The comic book was not going to be on all the shelves.
35:03Things were not going to be going his way.
35:05And so Vince made the decision, we don't need him on our roster.
35:13Warrior's career in the WWF is over and it isn't the storybook ending everyone was hoping for.
35:20Defeated and disappointed, Warrior retreats back to Arizona.
35:25Years 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 and I don't know, I just saw like a new energy in
35:43him that I hadn't seen in a long time.
35:45And he and I were friends at that point and he was dating and I was dating and it wasn't
35:51like weird or anything.
35:53It 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.
36:03And then when I got pregnant with my daughter, it got to the point where he and I decided that
36:10it was not a good idea for me to be in the gym anymore.
36:14Because 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.
36:25And he stood in front of me and he took my hands.
36:30He said, I want to thank you for all these years of being my wife.
36:35And I'm so sorry for all the pain that I've ever caused you.
36:43And I wish I could have been a faithful husband.
36:46And 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.
37:13With Warrior's wrestling career in the rearview mirror and his relationship with Sherry officially over, he was not done creating
37:21controversy.
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.
37:35And through her I realized I had been, without knowing directly, all along living by a conservative philosophy of life.
37:43You 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 the real simple idea.
37:52Just going out talking to young people all different ages.
37:55And I don't pull my punches about anything.
37:57He 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.
38:06Let me come down off my politically correct horse.
38:13Because 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
38:46or may not have been true, but coming from him was the most unpalatable of all.
38:51Folkomania is entwined in society by the example you've set of how to fuck up a life.
39:01I mean, you didn't care if your wife slept with other guys.
39:05I mean, you're a real piece of shit, Terry.
39:08Here was the most unprofessional, argumentative, hard to work with, egotistical, untalented guy that all these people had a hand
39:18in making a star.
39:19And then all he did afterwards was trash him.
39:24After spending years publicly disparaging his contemporaries and embroiled in lawsuits with the WWE, it was unlikely that Warrior would
39:34ever find himself face to face with any of his former opponents.
39:38That would all change in 2014 in a move that shocked the wrestling world when it was announced that the
39:45Ultimate Warrior would be headlining the Hall of Fame ceremony at WrestleMania 30.
39:51One of his longtime enemies would be lying in wait for his return.
39:56I had a roll of quarters in my pocket.
39:58I was going to beat his ass.
40:00And I'm waiting on him, looking for him.
40:02And, of course, Warrior being Warrior, they had him in a private area and security guards and all that.
40:10I had to wait.
40:10And I had to wait.
40:12And I had to wait.
40:13And I'm boiling.
40:14And I'm boiling.
40:14And I'm boiling.
40:15And then all of a sudden somebody tapped me in 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 disharmed 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 because he just always likes to bring people back into
40:59the fold.
40:59You look great.
41:01Congratulations.
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.
41:15The inductions were made and his family was there and it seemed like an improbable storybook ending for this multi
41:25-decade contentious relationship.
41:30The next night, he comes out on Monday Night Raw live on television and cuts another promo and it's a
41:37very inspirational speech that people actually understood.
41:40I am Ultimate Warrior, you are the Ultimate Warrior fans and the spirit of Ultimate Warrior will run forever.
41:56Warrior didn't look healthy that night.
41:59Like he had really got fatigued or hadn't been able to sleep or something was off.
42:06My 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, he was leaving his hotel room, walking to the
42:26car the next morning, had a heart attack and died.
42:32One of the biggest pro wrestling stars of the 1990s.
42:36We learned overnight that the Ultimate Warrior has died.
42:40It's probably one of the most startling things that ever happened in wrestling.
42:46After almost 20 years, a guy finally comes back, has a chance to at least resurrect his legacy, if not
42:52his career.
42:54Get 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.
43:08It was sad. It was sad.
43:11I was sad for his family. The children weren't going to have a father. I mean, just everything about it,
43:16and just so bad.
43:18Nobody should ever have to see their loved one die like that. I mean, I was sad for the fans.
43:25I was sad that people had lost something that meant so much to them.
43:29This character, this gimmick, the Ultimate Warrior, like, everything about it was so horrible.
43:34I would say that Warrior never said anything any more truthful than his last words on Raw.
43:41Every man's heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe their final breath.
43:48You're going to breathe your last breath. Your heart's going to beat its last time.
43:52It's just we never suspected it'd be that quick, that soon for him.
43:59Rest in peace.
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