10 Superstars Who Burned WWE Bridges… But Still Returned
1. The Ultimate Warrior
He may have been explosive. He may have been an in-ring powerhouse. He may have been responsible for so many fantastic childhood memories. When it comes down to it, sadly The Ultimate Warrior was an absolute piece of sh*t.
To those of us who adored Warrior in our younger days, it came as a gut-punch to years later hear him make such vile racist, homophobic, and generally xenophobic comments. And not just as a one-off error of judgement – which would still be inexcusable. Warrior embarked on vitriolic rants on a scarily regular basis.
In amongst these chilling remarks about anyone and everyone, Warrior also put WWE on blast at several points over the years. His behaviour when employed by WWE was erratic at best, yet that was nothing when compared to the lawsuits and public shots Warrior threw WWE’s way.
So burned was this particular bridge, WWE even made the childish, yet hugely entertaining move to release an entire DVD designed purely to mock Warrior at every possible turn.
Having not appeared on WWE programming since 1996, Ultimate Warrior returned to WWE in 2014 and received a spot in the WWE Hall of Fame the night before WrestleMania XXX.
All bridges were seemingly mended, hugs were shared around, Warrior was once again revered as an all-time great… yet the sad truth was WWE did its best to shine up a truly hateful man who went as low as to wish cancer on Bobby Heenan and to deride the victims of Hurricane Katrina as being no great loss to the world.