20 Greatest Wrestling Documentaries Ever

13. Warrior: The Ultimate Legend (2014)

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The Ultimate Legend isn't the first documentary WWE produced looking at The Ultimate Warrior, but it is the better one overall (and certainly more positive). 2005's release, The Self-Destruction Of The Ultimate Warrior, was a hatchet job more than anything as WWE mercilessly tore into Warrior's legacy.

That's the main reason The Ultimate Legend falls so far down this list, because it reeks of hypocrisy that the company would completely reverse their mindset in 2014. Following Warrior's passing just days after he was inducted into the WWE Hall Of Fame, the promotion released this film on the WWE Network.

Whilst it's hard to take some talking heads seriously after things that were said in the previous DVD set, it's a nice look at Warrior's career overall. WWE did the right thing by honouring Warrior, he was a top star in the late-1980's and into the 90's, but it's hard to shake that feeling of insincerity after the Self-Destruction debacle.

That's partly what makes this one so compelling, seeing the way pro wrestling as an industry can quickly shift opinion.

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