Ultimate Warrior In WWE: How It Started, How It Ended

To label him simply as a 1980s-style juiced up meathead somehow does a disservice to the Warrior and the meatheads.

Terry 'Warlord' Szopinski was a sweetheart, so say the shoot interviews. Warrior's original territories tag team partner Sting was an angel by all accounts other than his modest own, and Ravishing Rick Rude worked the gimmick to a tee but often wore his wedding ring in matches to show his wife who the shoot woman in his life was.

The big lads weren't necessarily Big Lads capital B capital L-A-D-S and there's something refreshing about that through a 2021 lens. Not that Warrior would ever look through such a thing in case it made him susceptible to homosexuality or whatever nonsense he parroted during those ill-fated college tours.

Because he was a juiced-up 1980s meathead when he debuted. Difficult and short-tempered with most people based on the majority of recollections, with very little care for those donating their body to his cause. But that cause wasn't just formed out of how looked.

It's easy to see photographs such as the one above and see why Vince McMahon pushed the Ultimate Warrior, but it's important to remember that a lot of guys would shoot...for the moon when it came to bodybuilding back then. Warrior had to have some intangibles more to stand out, and look no further than his debut to find some...

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