10 Most Despised Men In Wrestling History

10. The Ultimate Warrior

The Ultimate Warrior could only have made it in the massively muscled post-Superstar Billy Graham era. As a talent, he was almost comically limited. As a human being, his behaviour was dubious in the extreme. It was this combination of happenstance and entitlement that led many to decry him as one of the worst people to enter one of the worst industries.

Warrior was detested for the disrespect he showed the industry and his refusal to better himself at his craft, most famously by Ted DiBiase. Warrior's work was sloppy at best, dangerous at worst; he badly injured Bobby Heenan's neck in the aftermath of his WrestleMania V match opposite Rick Rude. His carelessness about tradition extended to his in-ring work. It was a transgression of code too much for his peers.

His latter day career as a public speaker saw him hated by people with only a passing familiarity of his time in wrestling. Warrior gave a speech to the University of Connecticut in 2005, in which he claimed that "queering doesn't make the world work". One woman was so repulsed by his inflammatory hate speech that she cried out "Oh my God." Warrior in response told the woman to save her "orgasm for later".

He was unfazed by the resulting furore; in 2008, he lamented the outpouring following Heath Ledger's death - claiming that nobody should mourn a drug-addled actor who starred in a gay propaganda film (Brokeback Mountain).

He mended fences with WWE in 2014 following the Self-Destruction Of The Ultimate Warrior DVD released in 2005. It was hideous, politicised stuff - but the ounce of truth within it confirmed that Warrior was far, far from popular with his peers.