"The Self- Destrucity of The Ultimate Warrior."

Best line: JR "What the f** is Destrucity" had me dying laughing

“I know you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I’m going to speak ill of the Ultimate Warrior because he was a f-king CLOWN.” - Jim Cornette

Funny what warrior said about Heenan considering Heenan outlived him.

Jim Ross rarely buries anyone in public, and he took a huge dump on Warrior as a worker and as a human being.

I think this video is the actual Dark Side Of The Ring Episode on Warrior

Damn if warrior could've cut promos like these quotes in the ring he'd have been the biggest heel of all time

I'm sure Wifey Warrior went and scrubbed the posts so she could tell us how "great but misunderstood" he was.🙄

Neither A&E nor Dark Side mentioned how the Renegade was brought in and ruined.

C'mon Brian. Jake was off his head in 1991. He didn't know where he was let alone what the plans were.

“I don’t know if she’s out there booking any hot finishes” got me so good. Just the thought of Dana Warrior knowing to suggest anything other than “how about he runs to the ring really fast” is hilarious

The Heenan rant was unreal. Saying that about an overwhelmingly loved figure in the business. What did he do to you?

"You're telling me Jake the Snake told untuths? Imagine that" 😂🤣

I think dark side of the ring about warrior needed to be a 2 parter

I honestly love it when Corny shoots on the Ultimate Warrior. Always entertaining.

For someone so fixated on "morality", Ultimate Warrior was awfully comfortable insulting people and taking pleasure in their suffering and misfortune

I did expect a much more aggressive Dark Side of the Ring episode regarding the Warrior, but I still liked it.

Martin Luther King. “The paved road was easy to take a bump on” Jim is institutionalized by the wrestling business 😂

Best part of the whole Heenan v Warrior feud is the fact that Heenan outlived Warrior. Bobby should have pissed on his grave

Why'd they even bother having Bischoff on the show when there was zero mention of his brief WCW run?

I recall in the late 90’s or early 2000’s seeing on Warrior’s website that he was offering to make personalized workout instruction tapes, and not only was he charging an arm and a leg for it,,he also wanted you to send him bare chested pictures of yourself. So far as I ever found, only a (very) few people actually sent him money and never got their tapes. The guy was a carny grifter, so little wonder he found success in wrestling.

So this is the same WARRIOR that the WWE Hall of Fame hand's out a legacy award to someone that show's the same spirit and drive as him?? YEESH!!!!

You could tell his first wife really loved him and was crushed when she found he was cheating on her. I felt bad for her. She did a great job humanizing Warrior.

Oh my god Jim buried Warrior so deep he hit the center of the earth 😂😂😂

I honestly don't think that the dark side episode really buried the ultimate warrior. There were guys in the business who told their side of it, but his ex-wife didn't really go out of her way to bury him. Overall I would argue that the dark side episode was a little more positive, because it portrayed a more full three-dimensional human being.

It was definitely his family that scrubbed his anti gay stuff from the web so they can make money from his name.

Fantastic art by Travis once again. Jim's look of utter confusion absolutely nailed it. I remember reading the first Warrior comic book...or trying to, anyways, and just being absolutely baffled by it.

I read somewhere years ago that Warrior's brother posted online, that the only reason why Jim went back to the WWE was to save his marriage with Dana. His brother said that Warrior was in financial trouble and Dana was ready to divorce.

It's hard to listen to that shit about Heenan ...Shit is borderline unforgivable 🤷🏽‍♂️

I'm curious if the words that Warrior wrote about Heenan were before or after that self destruction DVD. (For the record, I met Bobby after the cancer had taken his voice. He treated my older brother like they had been best friends his whole life. That is still the best memory I have of that weekend.)

“I don’t know if she’s booking any hot finishes” really made me crack up for some reason 😂

I'm 38. Warrior was the thing when I started watching wrestling. I thought he was shit way back then, when the gimmicks were probably what hooked me in, over ring craft. As an adult, I love his mental promos. His Wrestling skills were abysmal.

“The anabolic Warrior”, that’s a good one 🤣. I always called him “The Ultimate Steroid”.

I like how both warrior documentaries showcased separate wifes

They really should make a comedy biopic of Ultimate Warrior starring Ben Stiller. If you've seen the movie "Heavyweights" you know he would be perfect. Plus, he looks like him too.

"Jake was in jail" the way Brian said this like it's just a normal thing got a hell of a laugh out of me

I was waiting for Iron Sheik to appear on the episode to say F***k The Ultimate Warrior that Jabroni. Love The Iron Sheik.✌

It's said that before judging someone, letting them tell their side of the story is important. Unfortunately in the Warrior's case, his own words confirm he was a complete douchebag.

The best thing is that Bobby Heenan actually outlived him by a number of years

I would’ve loved a two part series on the Warrior. One part on his wrestling career, another on his post wrestling career

"He played up his last name 'King' as if he was one..." Said the guy who legally renamed himself "Warrior", the fake fighting performance artist who was never anywhere near a war or a serious violent conflict, or ever competed in a real combat sport... What a ridiculous assclown! He would have dropped dead 20 years earlier if somebody had forced him to march 40 miles.

The biggest weakness of the Dark Side shows are that the are only one hour, which means they are about 45 minutes. The two best ones might have been the Benoit two-parter and the Brian Pillman two-parter, because they were two episodes. The two others I really liked were Owen Hart and the Von Erichs, because they focused on the redemption of Owen Hart and his wife's aim to keep his memory alive and Kevin Von Erich. They had a narrow focus.

8:19 Ho Kogan, Leather Hedger, Booby Heenan - the self destruction of the english language

I remember being like 10 yrs old my stepdad at the time had me watch the self destruction of the ultimate warrior DVD. I couldn’t pay any attention I was blinded by how cool I thought he was. As I got older I saw things on the internet of him saying wild shit. I just can’t believe someone can be so overly unpleasant.

I was a huge fan of Warrior growing up but as I got older and understood the craft I eventually saw that he wasn't that skilled or great in the ring then with his comments in the past I really thought less of him as both a wrestler and a person. Even though I thought the burying of Warrior in the WWE dvd was kind of shitty I agree with what Booker T said recently is that they weren't actually wrong. RIP but people shouldn't have to sugar coat him.

The thing I took away from the episode was that Warrior should've never fucked things up with his first wife. She seemed like a really good person.

'Destrucity' is like something Gary Busey would say, but Gary Busey at least has the excuse of suffering massive brain damage in the 80s.

I remember reading rumors, supposedly from his early days in the business, that Warrior was a rent boy on the side. And I've seen a couple of shoot interviews where it was mentioned in passing that he had sex with other men. So there's that, take it for whatever it's worth to you.

No 98 WCW!! Should have been 2 parts

I’m actually really surprised they didn’t talk to Melanie Pillman.

To be fair, Cornette talked the exact same shit to Florida residents who got hit by hurricanes for voting for DeSantis and Trump , as Warrior talked to Katrina victims.

There was no roll of quarters. That video of Jake and Warrior interacting for the first time at the hall of fame is on youtube. Jake looks incredibly happy to see him lol.

The ending of this documentary i found so sad. He spent over a decade bitter at Vince and the WWE and then finally when he makes amends, he dies not even a week later.

Just use the WayBack machine. You'll be able to find whatever he posted if you know the website Warrior posted to before they were deleted.

Vince must’ve had a soft spot for Warrior to have wanted to have him in his company despite all that happened.

Gotta hand it to Jim too and I think more people should take note, is don't change you tone or opinion on someone just because they passed away. I think it speaks a lot to a person character when they try to change their attitude and feelings towards someone just bc they passed. If you felt like they were an asshole, then continue to feel that.

In the end its a story that's as old as time in the entertainment industry when someone has fame fortune and success is thrust upon someone who isn't ready for it and can't sustain it for a prolonged period of time: Too much, too soon and nowhere to go but down.

I almost pissed my pants as Jim read the letter from Titan Sports to Warrior firing him. 😆😆😆

I discovered the letter he wrote Bobby Heenan years ago, and this isn't pardoning his other rants, but reading THAT! I was all set with this Ultimate PIECE OF GARBAGE!

Well done Jim. I feel so bad for these middle-aged man-boys who cling to their adoration of him.

Ultimate Warrior's Old lady got him into the Republican party. Warrior was doing a Limbaugh gimmick? Wtf.

Warrior at HOF: "I am redeemed" Karma: "I'm going to make you bump one last time!"

What I want to know is did anyone save his eight-page rant on eBay when he was selling his WWF championship belt?

And yet Warriors last ever match was against Orlando Jordan! Gotta love the irony 😂

I thought the dark side would be a lot harder on him

Warrior wanting “destrucity” to become a thing..... wonder how he felt when The Rock had a few words put in the dictionary??

Holy shit, I had no idea these existed. Jim hasn’t done Warrior’s lunacy justice. Dude was a fucking nut.

I'd really like to meet Jim Cornette someday just to ask him what he thinks of Ultimate Warrior.

Was surprised that dark side of the ring went so soft. Especially considering all the drug talk they did with Pillman. A&E was the better doc.

Here's the way I describe it. I saw both Biography and DOTR. Biography was the broth, while DOTR was the meat.

Jim Cornette going to town on Warrior, Hogan and Jericho will always be entertaining because ITS TRUE

People kill the wwe for the "self destruction of the ultimate warrior" DVD, but that's exactly what happened.. the guy self destructed.. he was a pain to deal with.. its hard to do his biography without having to speak on all the negatives in his career

God why are all my childhood heros low key pieces of shit?!!? It sucks

I thought Darkside of the ring was gonna cover that he used to pose for gay magazines.

Bruce Prichard and Conrad were talking about the Warrior vs Slaughter match. Bruce was made that Uncle Dave called him the Anabolic Warrior. Bruce: Who does Meltzer think he is? Conrad: Are you going to pretend Warrior didn't use steriods? Bruce: I don't know that he did.

They do know that Sting is alive and well but wasn't interviewed.

And NO mention on his feud with Rick Rude.

I knew he had posted a good deal of Herculean Twaddle, but I did not know to what such degree a colossal knobhead he was.

Good lord. Some of these Warrior quotes are fucking brutal. I'm still waiting for someone to tell me how Cornette's career long fanbase, notoriously Republican, can manage to separate the egregious political differences between Jim and themselves, when they are completely unable to do so in any other capacity on this planet.

The jake the Snake comment. He did turn heal in 91. Cobra bit Randy Savage on TV. I remember that. Kids crying in the stands. That was big back then. That was when Jake was at his best. He had a run with Savage. Had one with Taker. So I believe they were going have run with Warrior. Was no other heal for him at the time.

The fucked up part is that if Warrior spit these promos and had a more bare bones early 00's gimmick, he'd have been over as a massive heel. Like, imagine him as some warped crusader for moral purity, in the vein of Bret Hart, and you can see what I'm angling for. These promos are INFINITELY more coherent- albeit unfathomably more detestable- than ANYTHING he ever cut in his career. But, on a serious note, Warrior was a grade A bastard.

I had that wrestling buddy in the documentary. I also had the Hogan one. I think there was also a Ted DiBiase and Big Boss Man one. Warrior seems to be everything old Cornette said he was after watching the two documentaries.

First time listening. Love it!! Jim Cornette is so great at telling stories. Great fact check of Jake Roberts

Iron Shiek always said”, Fak the ultimate warrior “. The Jake timeline was incredible!! WOW!! Blame Vince McMahon!!

Wow...I could cry if I could to the things Jim Helwig said and wrote about all of those people. I'm a Union SAG-AFTRA actor/performer and the roles we act are like wrestling characters - they are just characters, NOT real life, aside from those like the Von Erichs who did not need gimmicks to be a character other than themselves who did great in the day. Aside from that, we are actors, just as wrestlers are actors in a similar way, only they are great athletes. I am straight and can care less what others do in their lives because the gay community, or bi community, or what have you do not effect my life in any way, and I have no problem with what other people do - just as long as they are nice then that's all that matters. Everyone has an opinion, but WTF was Jim thinking when he went on a bipolar tirade bashing gay people!? And the things he said about Bobby "The Brain" Heenan was heart breaking. What the hell did Bobby ever do? I almost wished I didn't know these things, but I'd rather know and not be ignorant of this craziness with the things he spewed...like MLK and how Jim bashed him of all people! He was a hero and more courageous than Jim's imaginary alter ego ever would have been if he were real and not some comic book hero....what the flying shit was he thinking!? MLK was a hero, he was beaten, jailed, shot at and yet he did not let those stop him from his dream. I'm a red skinned Pawnee and was not around in the 60's by any means, but that man was a damn hero! WTF Warrior, what the hell was he on when he said those things? And what the fuck is destrucity!??? Sounds like a dick pill!

"...the paved road was easy to take a bump on.." Brilliant!

So on the flip side, who is the most loved wrestler? Mic Foley?

“Modern comforts and conveniences” 🤣

Warrior wasn't a conservative, just a lunatic

While Jake's timeline claims seems off, don't forget Warrior was also feuding with Taker in 1991, maybe the original plan was for Hogan to drop the belt to Taker at Survivor Series (without Flair's involvement as him jumping ship to the WWF may not have been a thing at that point) then Warrior taking it off Taker to feud with Jake. Then again, with the conflicting stories Bret and Hogan have told regarding the championship in 1993, it might just be another case of Vince making empty promises leading each person along.

Definitely seemed like the kind of dude who'd look at a terminally ill person and think "he didn't have the discipline to shape himself a better destiny, what a loser." Also, love how he always covered the part of his life where him and Sting stole food due to not having money as if it was an example of him being a strong-willed warrior - I'm sure he wouldn't see it that way for anyone else.

One thing I never got was what the deal was with this 'Dingo' Warrior name? I know the name was a spoof and all but what exactly does it mean? Like is he a warrior named Dingo, a warrior who is Dingoish or a warrior waging war against Dingos?

Warrior knew all about adultery.

I agree with Brian, the episode lacked focus. It's supposed to be the dark side of the ring, we dont need his bio or even his WWF run. Theres nothing "dark" about those. The dark side was his post wrestling life.

He never really had a father or a true friend, so he had to be the "ultamite" man above all else, then you'll be the friend underneath him. It gets old quick and pushes people away no matter hard someone tries to stay in your life.. and once he lost his lady, he was even further done

"That concrete road was easy to take a bump on." "Off the top of your head from over thirty years ago! That right there is why you're on the program!"

Moxley and Kingston's tag-team finisher the "Violent Crown" should be called the "Hell Wig" instead.

I'm getting the feeling Jim Cornette didn't like the Warrior. Damn......

I printed all that stuff out at the time he uploaded it. I used to print off tons of wrestling stuff I wanted to read during the day at work, so I could read it on the train home after work. Threw away all the news stuff but kept all the articles and things written by wrestlers. Warrior and Raven had interesting regular updates on their sites, I kept those.

I saw the biography of the Ultimate warrior and thought he was a total idiot.