10 Things We Learned From Dark Side Of The Ring: The Ultimate Warrior

3. Warrior Apologised Years Later

The Ultimate Warrior Dark Side Of The Ring
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Picture a suited and booted Jake Roberts roaming the halls backstage at the 2014 WWE Hall Of Fame ceremony. Still full of hatred for Warrior, Jake says he had a roll of quarters in his pocket and planned to beat his old peer up. Then, he spotted the wealth of security that Warrior had and couldn't get near him.

Jesus.

Later, Warrior nipped things in the bud by tapping Jake politely on the shoulder and apologising to him for past mistakes. Suddenly, any grudge Roberts held against Jim Hellwig was washed away. Warrior's ability to man up and say sorry opened his eyes to how silly this all was.

There's a fairly touching moment in the doc where Jake realises how lucky he was to make good with Warrior before he passed. He'd grown and changed as a human being himself since the early-90s, and he couldn't keep carrying around all that anger for Warrior any longer.

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