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

There's a particular Warrior aesthetic (and being stingy with his looks is one thing he could never ever be accused of - the man probably had more tights than he had fights over nine years in and out of Vince McMahon's organisation) that didn't so much as make an impression on your writer as a child, but embedded the notion of pro wrestling so deep into the brain that it remains lodged over three decades later.

In it, he's the new WWE Champion, he's flexing, and he's sporting a rather luxurious green, pink and orange ensemble. It's the type of palette almost nobody else could pull off, but the mere fact that Warrior was "like nobody else" was such a vital part of his appeal helps encapsulate why this look is so incredible.

It wouldn't just pass Vince McMahon's airport test - it'd ground the planes. Every muscle looks desperate to explode from beneath the skin, and though we are all too aware of some of the magic tricks that went in to all of that, time has made it easier to forget a host of inconvenient truths and marvel at these cartoons brought to life. This gets thrown around too liberally about that specific era, but looks like a video game character - specifically Abedede from the SEGA classic Streets Of Rage.

Warrior was inspiring million-selling franchises to ape his image. It's little wonder he was so protective of it, especially when he knew that McMahon would one day come calling again.

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