10 Wildest Wrestling Urban Legends
6. The Two Ultimate Warriors
God bless the innocence of youth.
As a parent, their worldview truly is enchanting, at least when they're not going absolutely f*cking apesh*t.
Nobody ever warns you about that. They tell you about sh*tty nappies and sleepless nights, but they never add "Oh, by the way, actually leaving the house is impossible for at least five years without using every reserve of your energy making up games to prevent daily meltdowns".
Anyway.
Kids worldwide took one look at the Ultimate Warrior in 1992 and collectively deduced that it wasn't the same guy. It couldn't be. There was something suspicious about this supposed "Ultimate Warrior". These children thought they had the f*cker bang to rights because he'd cut his hair shorter, as if that wouldn't be the first thing the WWF would look to mimic exactly, had the original expired. Well, the first thing WWE would look to do is continue running the show, but that's by the by.
This "Warrior" was much skinnier, too. That settled it. The original died, and the WWF replaced him with an imposter!
This crazy explanation was still less fanciful than "beloved childhood hero shrunk when he got off the juice".
They deserve better than this world, they really do.