Triple H just announced that the Ultimate Warrior passed away

[flyonthewall2983]

More news as it comes along.

[flyonthewall2983]

Bryan Alvarez has said WWE confirms this.

[Cox]

That has to be a Twitter hack.

[Eduardo]

[Strummer]

http://www.wwe.com/inside/ultimate-warrior-passes-away-26223975

[dexstar]

If it's a hack, they really got a lot

[KrisZ]

Confirmed by WWE & Alvarez

RIP

[Death From Above]

The timing is just so utterly bizarre.

 

I don't really know what else to say about this at the moment.

[flyonthewall2983]

It's downright spooky.

[Steenalized]

Wow. Eerie. Such strange timing.

[s1rweeze]

Stunned

[Johnny Sorrow]

What the fuck....

[NintendoLogic]

What the fuck?

[thebrainfollower]

That's a real shame at his age. I for one think the Warrior was a great big match worker when he had to be and really underappreciated.

[PeteF3]

It's not my place to say so, but...fuck, I will anyway: my first thought is a suicide.

 

EDIT: I guess I should expand a little--Warrior said something about "every man breathing his last breath" in his promo. If it's not suicide, it's possible that he'd been suffering from some sort of illness that only he and maybe a few other WWE folks knew about. It may explain how they so quickly went from not being on speaking terms to inducting him in the HOF.

 

That, or it's simply some of the most bizarre timing with the weirdest coincidental speech of all-time.

[Death From Above]

And, confirmed by Meltzer via twitter if there was any remaining doubt. Also up on WWE dot com and confirmed by Alvarez.

[Strummer]

I hope they do a tribute show Monday. Probably not and they'll just an in memoriam and then a package later in the show

 

absolute shock

[flyonthewall2983]

The timing of it makes me think suicide, but someone here posted in the HOF thread that they were seriously worried he was going to die right there in the middle of his speech.

[Steenalized]

It's not my place to say so, but...fuck, I will anyway: my first thought is a suicide.

I hate to speculate, and don't intend for this to be speculation, but I will say that was my first thought, given the timing.

[Coffey]

It's not my place to say so, but...fuck, I will anyway: my first thought is a suicide.

My first thought as well. I guess now we wait & find out.

[sek69]

I would think they have to do more than an in memoriam since the guy was just the HOF main eventer a few days ago. Sucks his kids are so young to lose a parent as well. He didn't look in great shape on Raw, but it seemed like just the usual "beat up former wrestler" wear and tear rather than someone about to die the next day.

[(BP)]

His family looked like they adored him during the HOF. This is really strange.

[Mando]

Yeah as a young dad myself when he told his two girls during his HoF speech that the greatest thing he'd ever do was be their father I almost teared up. This is shocking. Him versus Savage may be my favorite 'Mania match of all-time. Wow.. that's all I can say. Rest in peace.

[sek69]

From his promo on Raw last night:

 

 

"One day every man's heart beats its final beat, his lungs breath their final breath, and if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others, it makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized by the storytellers, by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make what the man did live forever"

[shoe]

This is shocking.