WWE: The 10 Best Ultimate Warrior Moments

By Scott Keith /

It seems kind of crazy that Ultimate Warrior had never been inducted into WWE€™s Hall of Fame before now. He certainly meets all the stringent criteria for induction (used to work for the company, hasn€™t killed anyone, not named €œRandy Savage€), and let€™s face it, for a certain percentage of the audience he was The Guy. Yeah, Hulk Hogan was the big draw for years, but Warrior was the crazed self-parody prototype of everything a pro wrestler in the 80s could be. He had the exaggerated muscles, big hair, and coked-out promos that everyone associates with our so-called sport from the time. More importantly, he had a lot of things that current fans are unable to get from wrestling today. His promos might have been nonsensical, but they were certainly passionate and didn€™t come across as phony. This man BELIEVED that he was speaking with the gods on top of the mountain or whatever. Speaking as a fan who started following on a regular basis around 1986, Warrior was the first wrestler who I was able to watch develop from the start and get a monster push up the card without ever feeling like it was going to get ripped away from me. I term I use for it is €œThe rocket push€, as in someone having a proverbial rocket strapped to their back, and it€™s a powerful feeling as a fan to know you€™re on the winning team. So here then is a list of what I consider to be his 10 best moments. Not necessarily best matches, because that would be a much shorter list, but just the times he seemed to fulfil the potential he held at the beginning of his run. Before he went completely nuts.