The Ultimate Warrior is a polarising figure. A lot of fans of the cartoon era remember him as the high-energy hero of the WWF, who were enthralled by his heavy metal hair and colourful face paint. Others see a 'roided-up lunatic with limited wrestling ability. Whatever your opinion of Warrior, he certainly made an impact in the business. Backstage, Warrior was pretty much universally disliked by the locker room. Like Luger, the business wasn't necessarily the main passion of Warrior. Even worse, Warrior had a habit of being reckless in the ring and regularly hurt the people he was working with his clumsiness. Rick Rude reportedly hated working with Warrior, but he was one of the only wrestlers who was tough enough to take the nightly beating. The most damning evidence against Warrior's backstage behaviour is WWE's 2005 hatchet job DVD The Self-Destruction Of The Ultimate Warrior, which was basically a ninety minute burial of the former WWF Champion. Ric Flair, Bobby Heenan and Vince McMahon were especially critical of Warrior's attitude and behaviour. One of the worst Warrior stories out there is the one that Bret Hart tells in his autobiography. Apparently Warrior neglected to meet a dying Make-A-Wish child backstage at a show after Rand Savage, Hart, Andre The Giant, Hulk Hogan and countless others had done so and the child had his family had waited all night to meet him. Hart called Warrior 'a coward, a weakling and a phony hero' for this episode. Warrior mended a lot of fences in the days leading up to his sudden death last year but there's no doubt that he burned a lot of bridges in his career and that there weren't too many who were fond of him in the back. Ironically, one of the most universally loved men in wrestling Owen Hart was one of the only people who liked Warrior.
