Bruce Prichard Slams "first-class A-hole" Wwe Hall Of Famer

Bruce Prichard has been sharing his opinions connected a erstwhile WWE Champion who presently resides successful nan company's Hall of Fame. And nan opinions are not precisely nan ones that would beryllium included successful a Hall of Fame induction ceremony. To put it mildly.

During a caller section of his Something To Wrestle With podcast, nan erstwhile Brother Love recalled his first gathering pinch Jim Hellwig, different known to WWE fans arsenic nan Ultimate Warrior. It was not a gathering that nan WWE executive remembered fondly.

Bruce Prichard didn't want nan Ultimate Warrior successful WWE

Prichard wasted nary clip letting his listeners and viewers cognize really small he thought of Warrior, who would spell connected to go a awesome prima for nan company, dethroning Hulk Hogan arsenic WWE Champion successful nan main arena of WrestleMania VI successful 1990.

“I first met Jim Hellwig erstwhile he was 3 months successful nan business successful Mid-South. From nan very first relationship pinch him, he was a first-class asshole. He was not a bully person. He was difficult to activity with, thought he knew it all. He was conscionable a existent jerk."

"He ran retired erstwhile Bill Watts cracked him successful nan caput pinch a shot bat, and he virtually ran distant and near nan territory successful nan mediate of nan night. So I didn’t person a bully acquisition pinch him. When he was calling successful nan summertime of 1987 to travel successful for WWE astatine nan time, I was asked, ‘Did you ever activity pinch him?’ I said, ‘Yes. Didn’t person bully experience.’”

Warrior had immense occurrence and failures successful WWE

For each his occurrence (winning nan WWE and Intercontinental Titles), Warrior was a fig arsenic loathed backstage arsenic he was loved by nan crowds successful nan arenas and viewers watching astatine home. He fought pinch various members of nan locker room arsenic good arsenic Vince McMahon himself.

Warrior was fired by McMahon twice, erstwhile successful 1992, past again successful 1996, only months aft making a expansive return, which saw him conclusion a young Triple H successful little than 60 seconds astatine WrestleMania XII.

After spending 18 years distant from nan company, Hellwig returned to beryllium inducted into nan 2014 people of nan WWE Hall of Fame, appearing connected Monday Night Raw nan nighttime aft WrestleMania 30 to trim a promo.

However, nan pursuing day, aft cutting his return promo connected Raw successful New Orleans, Warrior would suffer a bosom onslaught and dice extracurricular a edifice successful Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 54 years of age.

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