10 Wrestling Promos That Were Inadvertently Infamous
1. The Ultimate Goodbye
The Ultimate Warrior didn't exactly look a picture of health by the time he reached the end of his WWE return weekend on the post-WrestleMania XXX edition of Monday Night Raw, but the promo he cut before his untimely death the very next day spoke in rather too much detail about his eventual demise.
There's a significantly spooky subtext to it all, particularly when he refers directly to "every man's heart beating its final beat" and "lungs breathing their final breath" in an effort to fuse together his legacy with the legions of WWE fans old and new. He looks genuinely exhausted as he notes that the "spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever" - a line delivered by design to ensure he didn't literally have to follow through with the physicality.
Regardless of the man's beliefs or ugly sentiments often shared, the heartbreaking loss to his wife and children of their husband and father was the saddest end to an uplifting weekend of reconciliation. He was eulogised heavily (and controversially) in the aftermath, but as with his life, few pontificated on his passing better than the man himself.