The Ultimate Warrior Dead At Age 54

[Havok]

Man. I LOVED this guy as a kid and he was always my favorite wrestler. This hurts my heart a bit, but I'm glad he was able to reconcile with the WWE and got a chance to be in the limelight with his fans one last time.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/20 ... 4/7495659/

RIP Warrior.

[mr friendly guy]

I loved how he and Hulk Hogan took on Sergeant Slaughter, Colonel Mustafa (Iron Sheik) and some other Arab patsy in the ring during summer slam 1991. The days when I was a kid. Sad to see him go.

Rest in peace Warrior.

[Metahive]

He finally loaded the spaceship with the rocket fuel, loaded it with words and flew to the great destrucity in the stars.

Fuck him for his homophobic ranting, though.

[Simon_Jester]

Didn't see any indication in the article of what he died of. May have overlooked it.

[Mr. Coffee]

Didn't see any indication in the article of what he died of. May have overlooked it.

He put on the mask on more time on a lark and the sheer AWESOMENESS of the idea of the Ultimate Warrior staging a comeback caused his heart to explode in a shower of blood, meat, and unmetabolised steriods.

[PKRudeBoy]

His hall of fame induction on Sunday was just in time.

[Terralthra]

The creepy thing is that his final promo on Raw on Monday was about how one day, every legend will die, but if a legend inspires others, they live on forever. It was practically prophetic.

[Havok]

I didn't watch it, but I read the text. It certainly was. Maybe he was telling everyone something that he knew?
Maybe he had a terminal illness and he offed himself feeling like his life had come full circle and he was happy and content, but I doubt it because from all accounts aside from wrestling he really lived for his kids and I couldn't see a dad wanting to miss out on a second of their lives. However I've had three different friends (two of them brothers) whose dad's killed themselves. One because of a terminal illness and another we still don't know why. They both did it after my friends were out of high school though.

I hadn't heard anything about his homophobic ranting, but I can forgive that flaw as a man that just hadn't seen reason yet.

[Napoleon the Clown]

Heart disease would be my guess, though an aneurysm sounds probable, too, given that he apparently collapsed and was declared dead upon arriving at the hospital. Most things don't make you go from walking around to dead quite that fast.

Heart attack sounds most likely to me, though. It could even be why he commented about death. He might have been having heart troubles and felt the end was near.

I'm sure we'll find out what it was within the next week or so.

[Edi]

Heart disease would be my guess, though an aneurysm sounds probable, too, given that he apparently collapsed and was declared dead upon arriving at the hospital. Most things don't make you go from walking around to dead quite that fast.

Heart attack sounds most likely to me, though. It could even be why he commented about death. He might have been having heart troubles and felt the end was near.

I'm sure we'll find out what it was within the next week or so.

Heart attack, aneurysm, pulmonary embolism. Depending on just how severe they are, all of those can be instant death. As in, just minutes later you're dead even if paramedics get on the scene right away.

[Lord Revan]

and he probably took his fair share of performance enhancing drugs during his career, so his internal organs might not have been in the best condition possible.

[Gandalf]

and he probably took his fair share of performance enhancing drugs during his career, so his internal organs might not have been in the best condition possible.

They all took them. Look at his trapezius muscles. You don't see a lot of big trapezius muscles without at least some roid usage.

Also, I recommend the documentary Beyond the Mat. It's a fucking eye opener.

[Dr. Trainwreck]

Man, he was young. But then again, I have this impression that over 50 is pushing it for pro wrestlers.

Regarding the topic, you should read this article by Cracked, it's one of their "write about your unusual career" ones: http://www.cracked.com/article_20921_5- ... stler.html

[fgalkin]

*cough*



Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Napoleon the Clown]

So apparently he appeared to be in a great deal of pain during his final appearance. source

This makes me feel more confident that it was most likely his heart giving out. It would certainly explain why he talked about every great warrior dying.

He himself may have been a homophobic dick, but I still feel for his family.

[mr friendly guy]

*cough*



Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

Man, I liked him back in the day. Why do my childhood action heroes have to turn out to be douchebags? At least He-Man and Optimus Prime are still cool.

[fgalkin]

Hey, I used to like Chris Benoit, and he ended up murdering his family and then killing himself. On the night he was due to win the ECW title, no less. So, yeah.


Have a very nice day.
-fgalkin

[Batman]

The Ultimate Warrior was the one man I could accept being able to beat Hulk Hogan fair and square back when he did at Wrestlemania VI.
He may not have been a particularly nice person but he was a great entertainer. May he rest in peace, and my condolences to his family.

[Havok]

Steroids are a given. He was a body builder before he even became a wrestler.

[NeoGoomba]

I was always a Savage man (and thanks to Space Ghost: Coast to Coast a lot of my old college buddies are too), but hearing Gorrilla shout "That's the Warrior's music!!" was one of the coolest moments in my childhood. The guy was such a spaz, it played well to my young brain.

I'm just glad we still have Sgt. Slaughter with us, even though that motherfucker was messing with my heart in the 80's. I'd wake up to him leading the Joes to victory in the morning before school, and then on Superstars I'd watch him turn traitor against the US before bed.