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Before i begin, i know what most of you think about wrestling, but this is my blog and i can write about whatever i want!

As some of you may know, I grew up a huge wrestling fan, from way back in the early 1990s. In fact, whether or not youd like to admit it, u know u all were wrestling fans too, at least back in the day. All my friends were. And especially back in the day there was no wrestler (besides Hulk Hogan) who was as as popular as the Ultimate Warrior.  The Ultimate Warrior was the 2nd or 3rd biggest star in the WWE (alongside Hogan and Randy "Macho Man" Savage") througout the late 1980s and early 1990s.Everyone loved him. Arguably the climax of his career was in April of 1990, at Wrestlemania VI, where the main event was dubbed the Ultimate Challenge. It was champion vs. champion, The WWF World Champ, Hulk Hogan vs. the WWF Intercontinental Champion, The Ultimate Warrior. The Warrior won that match, in front of like 70,000 people in the Toronto Skydome, and every1 was talking about it for years! Thats right, years! Im sure Waheed still has fond memories of that match. (lol, no1 was a bigger warrior fan than waheed, mujeeb was the hogan fan, naveed was a macho man fan, while i was a shawn michaels fan back then - dont worry this was wayyy before triple H entered the WWF) So yea, Warrior was immensely popular back in the day. He left the WWF in 1991 due to contract disputes, re-entered a couple of times, and finally was gone from good from the WWF in 1996 (after embarassing Triple H at Summerslam 96, after no-selling the pedigree! (I remember waheed rubbing that in my fact about that, lol). Meanwhile, between WWF stints in the early 1990s, to ensure that the Ultimate Warrior kept rights to his name, he legally changed his name from Jim Hellwig to the Ultimate Warrior (no joke!) He soon made a small comeback in the WCW in the late 1990s to fued once again with Hogan and his group at the time, the nWo, but that was a dismal failure. Hogan vs Warrior 1998 was horrible. Since then, the Warrior has remained away from the Wrestling lifestyle, and is known to be a hard-core right-winger.

So why am I writing about this now? A couple of days ago, the WWE released a DVD titled, The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior. It gives the story of the Warrior’s rise to fame as one of the greatest, most intense superstars in the WWF. However it also gives the Warrior’s equally powerful fall to shamlbes as well. It gives the "backstage story" from the men behind the scenes of the Ultimate Warrior’s supposed mental self-destruction that led to his downfall. And the WWE doesnt come up short in dishing out all the dirt on the Warrior. Among several things, they mention how he held the WWE up for money during Summerslam 1991 (threatening not to work the main event if they didnt give him a certain amount of money) and so forth. Other wrestlers and others from the industry attacked his intregtiry, professionalism, and even his sanity. However, it is important to note that the WWE did initially invite the Warrior to take part in this DVD, but after he refused only did the title change to "the self-destruction…".

Now what makes this story even more exciting, is the Ultimate Warrior’s response to the WWE. Although he refused to reply on any WWE platform (he wants no part with that company) he did leave a not-so-nice message on his personal website. His comments about several key figures in the WWE and in that DVD specifically are quite… vulgar, to say the least. He attacks Vince McMahon (the owner and president of the WWE), Triple H, Bobby Heenan, and Jim Ross, among many others. He gives his own take on the Summerslam 1991 contract dispute, saying it was Vince’s fault, and even exposes one of Vince’s adulterous affairs at the time. He accuses Triple H of being an Ultimate Warrior wanna-be,  and accusing his physique being mostly the result of "sports supplements". He even goes onto say that Triple-H was Vince’s replacement for the Ultimate Warrior, and how Triple-H’s success was part of Vince’s vendetta against the Warrior. He even goes on to say: "You know, think about it. If I hadn’t been smitten with my own honey at the time and Vince would have been more sensible, he might have hired me to become his son-in-law." (Ouch, for those of you who dont know, Triple-H is married to Vince McMahon’s only daughter, Stephanie McMahon.) This is insane, to say the least. But I find it very entertaining. Professional wrestling is a crazy business indeed.