10 Most Alarming Ways WWE Rewrites History
6. A Legend’s Troubling Past Is Ignored
One of the most alarming, craziest things WWE has done the past couple years is name an award after The Ultimate Warrior, then actually give the damn thing out to people and attempt to make it a feel good moment.
Warrior may have been one hell of family man, maybe he gave a bunch of money to charities and never told anybody about it. Maybe he even ran a kitten farm in Arizona. But what we do know is that he was a homophobic racist who said deplorable things in public settings that should easily disqualify him from any award ever being named in his honour. It's just that simple.
And yet, a year after his death, the Warrior Award was created and given to the family of Connor Michalek. He was, of course, a little boy that was a huge fan of WWE that died of cancer. In another case of the company rewriting history, Warrior advocated an award to be created for longtime WWE employees who were never recognised on-air, not for people battling illness. But the latter cause makes the company seem more charitable.
The question is, do you really think Connor would even want an award gifted in his memory by someone that said this about Bobby Heenan after finding out about his cancer diagnosis:
"As for you, Booby Heenan, it’s just too difficult to keep a straight face talking about the pure two-faced bag of s**t you are (and have always been), what, with you also actually wearing one as a piece of body jewelry. You are dying, dis-eased on the inside, and no more time is left to get back any of the integrity that matters the most on death’s bed. Imagine what it will be like, lying there taking in your last breaths, knowing you wh***d yourself out your whole life, and had to, in your final years, be faced with emptying your own personal s**t bag affirming to you the true value of what you achieved in your life. Not even Vince could come up with a better finish than this. Karma is just a beautiful thing to behold"
Is Joan Lunden aware of this written statement he made? If so, how is she fine with that? Will next year’s recipient be? Rewriting every horrific Warrior said is an affront to every good, decent person who has ever wrestled for WWE.
Keep him in the Hall if you wish, as hell, the character was popular, but pretending the man behind the paint wasn’t a giant scumbag, and worthy of an award created in his name is a flat-out sickening.