10 Most Unprofessional Wrestlers Ever

4. The Ultimate Warrior

Ultimate Warrior
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Reckless and unapologetically so, the Warrior was on more than one occasion told by his peers to ease up, calm the hell down, and work with their safety in mind.

Allegedly, his response to one such request, made at the behest of Rick Rude, was "I'm the Warrior" - which is ironic, because he was purportedly sparked clean out as a result of his blustering.

As the fan-friendly face of the corporation, he bombed as hard as he did as WWF Champion. When he wasn't telling young kids to hit the bricks at airports, he - per Bret Hart's autobiography 'Hitman' - made a terminally ill child wait, because he was "f*cking busy", to meet him.

He extorted Vince McMahon following SummerSlam 1991, but that was one of the few good and principled things he ever did.

He was fired for it, and every subsequent return was an omni-failure in which he visibly didn't care about working hard, being present, or even playing the role. Smoking cigars and wearing caps in 1996, in WCW in 1998, he rambled on for longer than CM Punk's Collision run because he was too focused on getting his insane blather over than setting up a programme and doing business.

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