10 Unusual Demands Made By Wrestlers

9. The Ultimate Warrior's Comic Book Side-Gig

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After his "mysterious" 1992 departure, the Ultimate Warrior spent the next four years taking monster paydays in Germany and, amid semi-retirement, had the absolute balls - when you thought they'd shrunk to dust - to open his own wrestling school.

What was the curriculum, there?

"How to perform clotheslines with your armpit, run around like a f*cking d*ckhead, and recklessly endanger your opponents?

The venture was of course short-lived, and when the money ran out, he went back to the Fed - on one strange condition.

He demanded that the WWF buy several thousand copies of his comic book library, which were to be promoted on WWF programming. The intellectual property would remain Warrior's, in what was a stark departure from Vince McMahon's usual 100% ownership. He likely reasoned that nae f*cker was going to buy it, so it didn't make any difference whatsoever to his bottom line.

Since one infamous scene saw the Warrior either cosplay as Santa Claus or do something significantly worse to him, Vince was correct in his assertion. Did Warrior do something unthinkable to Saint Nick?

Or did he think that kids needed to be taught some personal responsibility and that nobody was going to hand these little pukes anything for free?

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