Former WWE official Wes Adams recently
spoke about the Ultimate Warrior. Here is what he had to say…
“I didn’t always read the
Ultimate Warrior’s website or his writings, so I wasn’t aware if he presented
his side of the issue or not. But fact remains, whether the WWE wanted him to or
not, he was an important part of one of the biggest boom periods in wrestling
history. So many years went by with lawsuits, wars of words, and other forms of
litigation between the Warrior and the WWE that we always thought that he was
going to receive the Randy Savage treatment when it came to the Hall of Fame
induction. But the unthinkable happened. The bridge that was burned to the
ground and the ashes thrown into the river and washed away was magically rebuilt
sometime last year. A new Warrior DVD has been released, and he took his
rightful place in the Hall of Fame, and got one more chance to walk on the big
stage of WrestleMania, and one last chance to be seen by millions on RAW. A good
friend of mine pointed out that the eeriness of Warrior’s promo on RAW almost
came across like he was giving his own eulogy. I know it’s been printed
countless times, but I’m going to include it again:
“No WWE talent becomes a legend on their
own. Every man’s heart one day beats its final beat. His lungs breathe a final
breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the
body of others and makes them bleed deeper and something larger than life then
his essence, his spirit, will be immortalized. By the story tellers, by the
loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him and make the running the man did
live forever. You, you, you, you, you, you are the legend makers of Ultimate
Warrior. In the back I see many potential legends. Some of them with warrior
spirits. And you will do the same for them. You will decide if they lived with
the passion and intensity. So much so that you will tell your stories and you
will make them legends, as well. Ultimate. You are the Ultimate Warrior fans.
And the spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever!”
Ultimately spoken. He was 100% correct.
The fans make everybody. Not Vince McMahon, not the developmental systems, not
the creative team. THE FANS. And I’m so proud to have been a part of the
generation that made the Ultimate Warrior. I’ve been in professional wrestling
for 14 years, and I’ve been fortunate to meet many, many, of my childhood
heroes. I’ll never get to meet the Ultimate Warrior. I’ll never get to shake the
hand of the Ultimate Warrior. I’ll never get to tell him how much of an
inspiration he was to me. A lot of us won’t. But no matter what, we can never,
ever forget, that the saddest part of this, is that children won’t get to hug
their father ever again. A wife will never be able to tell her husband she loves
him again. A mother will never be able to look at her son ever again. My final
memory of the Ultimate Warrior is that on Tuesday night, my mother and I were
watching his Hall of Fame induction ceremony. She has never been a huge
wrestling fan but nonetheless still supports me. She sat there and watched Jim
Hellwig, not the Ultimate Warrior, talk about his kids, his wife, and his
mother. And she was genuinely moved and put over how good of a man he was to do
that. He could have used that national cable TV time to put himself over, relive
the good old days, bash the WWE, but he didn’t. He used time to that to tell his
family just how much they meant to him. And no matter how much we will miss the
Warrior, his family is going to miss him a million times
more.”
