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Message: [QUOTE="jncuse, post: 3874565, member: 1969"] The Ultimate Warrior documentary is a strange one for me reaction wise. I also welled up a bit towards the end of it. Seemed like a story of redemption and reconciliation that felt right. But then I sat back and thought of everything I had watched and really it left me with a pretty hollow feeling about the Warrior. I wondered why this guy has been honoured as a premier legacy legend by the WWE and what exactly was the redemption here? Was it redemption or just to show those that did not act great through the process try to make things go away because they felt "bad" about the bullying both ways? The guy was not a good wrestler. He did have some memorable matches though. I loved the SummerSlam 88 match against Honky -- it was a perfect 30 second match to build his character. And I think the WM7 match? against Savage. And the Hogan WM6 was pulled off well. But in the end he is not a memorable performer that is not that good at his craft. He was very popular but for a short time -- his run as WWE champion was not memorable. They had to take the belt off him as the WWE started its slide and he was not responsible nor professional. Other wrestlers did not really like him. The lack of others talking anything great about him in the doc spoke volumes to me. He also had a reputation as not being great with kids at events. The talkers were basically podcasters who loved him as a kid. And while he was a great father, to me in the current day your role as a human being extends beyond responsibility to your family but to be decent to the rest of society. Reading up on his remarks against gay people, other races, Hurricane Katrina victims, Bobby Heenan, this guy was not only a bit of a nut but a real jerk (and being a republican by itself does not make you a nut or jerk). The "he listened to talk radio" and that was the reason for the incident was just a bad misrepresentation of the story. Connecticut was not an isolated incident. [B]At the end of this the redemption is unsatisfactory. [/B]The Warrior made amends with fellow workers. That was nice and that made me well up. He was a great father. But where is the responsibility or accountability for the deplorable words and thoughts that he had? When did he apologize for that? In the end I am left feeling that while it is fine that this guy is a Hall of Famer, the placement of him at the top of the WWE hierarchy is just not deserved -- he was neither a great wrestler, a great professional, or a great human being. [/QUOTE]

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