10 WWE Fates Worse Than Burial
5. The DVD/Network Documentary Hatchet Job
WWE's infamous Self-Destruction Of The Ultimate Warrior documentary is not available on the WWE Network.
Multiple follow-up works as well as countless curated collections of Warrior's best matches are but a click away, but their shameless 2005 hatchet job on the former WWE Champion will not be one of the things that eventually makes the jump to Peacock. Watching it back if you're lucky enough to own the DVD, it's p*ss easy to see why.
The whole thing plays as a petulant attempt to settle a score because they couldn't for years. Warrior always had McMahon's heart (as evidenced by an eye-watering offer he sent him in December 1997, a year after their last blow-up and a month after the Montreal Screwjob), but he'd been prone to breaking it too. Still spurned, McMahon and others like him castigated every aspect of the act despite the likes of Chris Jericho and Christian offering warm rebuttals having lived through his era has fans.
The piece's ramifications stretched beyond Warrior himself. Bret Hart's career was nearly documented in a profile salaciously titled "SCREWED: The Bret Hart Story". It would have been a disgusting way to pay tribute to the finest wrestler in the history of the company, and it's not like the model was without precedent. For years a former WrestleMania co-headliner had been defined by the same fate...