[1991-01-06-WWF-Wrestling Challenge] Interview: Ultimate Warrior

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

So glad the Warrior title run is coming to a close. I always thought the Warrior bombing might have been a little bit of an overstatement considering how over I remembered him being as a kid, but after watching the 1990 Yearbook, that is clearly no myth. The guy was over, but did not click as the champion. Knowing he's about to drop the title makes him slightly more tolerable here. I know he didn't stick around past summer, but in the long run, he would have been better served as the #2 babyface anyway.

[shoe]

Man I'm so over the Warrior and can't wait for him to drop the title. Between him and Brother Love segments. Blah!!

[soup23]

A lot of hour glass metaphors by Warrior on this one.

[PeteF3]

Okerlund implies that Hussein was on WWF TV giving those boots to Slaughter. Warrior talks of hourglasses and...for fuck's sake...minefields. The invasion of Kuwait and war in the Middle East is only serving as a basis for wrestling metaphors. Absolutely no one in this company seems to have any clue of what's actually happening in the real world. That's not even necessarily a problem, but then leave the fucking real world out of things.

[Kevin Ridge]

Warrior says Macho’s time is running out for ever becoming a champion again. They talk about Saddam Hussein’s gift of the boots to Slaughter. Saddam is the creator of evil. Warrior wants him out of Kuwaitt by January 15th. Laying it on heavy here. I agree on the comments about Warrior's title reign. He seems pretty much done as champion at this point.

[garretta]

I wonder if Saddam ever knew how close he came to feeling the Warrior's wrath. Makes those Patriot missiles look like child's toys, or so I hear.

 

I can understand the overwrought metaphors, considering the promotion that we're talking about here, but even to imply that Saddam gave Slaughter those boots shows just how idiotic Vince and his crew was at this time. Forget the bad taste; we've been over and over that. What about some simple use of logic? Didn't Vince stop to think that if Saddam Hussein had made a present to an American professional wrestler of any kind whatsoever that it would have been plastered all over the news? Every other word on all three networks and cable was "Saddam", for heaven's sake.

 

So if it wasn't on the news (which almost everyone was watching), then how did only the WWF ever know about it? Could it just be that they're (gasp, shudder) LYING to us? And if they're lying about that, what else could they be lying about? Yes, it's a variation on the old "expose the business" argument, but this was a lot easier to check up on than whether two wrestlers who were deadly enemies in one territory were tag team partners in another. It's a terrible chance for Vince to take in an era when there was still money to be made in at least trying to convince people that the majority of what they saw on their screens was real (unless you lived in New Jersey, that is). I don't think anyone was trying to imply that Saddam actually showed up at a WWF arena to give Sarge the boots, though; there's a limit to even Vince's cluelessness.

 

Yes, Warrior's back to being the Ultimate Maniac. I guess the humanization process has failed once and for all. Considering the other crap going on around him, though, his insanity is the least of the WWF's problems at the moment.

[drew wardlaw]

Is he trying to present himself as a Native American here, like that's what the "warrior" part is? I just realized it with this promo. Like one of the Renegade Warriors maybe?

[dawho5]

Warrior kind of stays on script here. He at least aims his comments in the right direction even if they are hard to understand due to Warrior-speak. Is it possible the guy wanted to stand out so much he refused to use normal words way past the point of sanity?