The Ultimate Demolition Job

-Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, United States
-Born Brian James Hellwig
-Billed height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
-Billed weight 275 lb (125 kg)
-Was studying to be a chiropractor
-Won the 1984 NPC Mr. Georgia contest
-In 1985 was invited to join a group of bodybuilders - Garland Donoho, Mark Miller, and Steve "Flash" Borden who were vying to be professional wrestlers
-Began his professional wrestling career as Jim "Justice" Hellwig of Powerteam USA
-Legally changed his name to Warrior in 1993
-2 Time WWE Intercontinental Champion
-1 Time WWE Champion
-Retired from professional wrestling in 1999 and embarked on a public speaking career
-Returned to wrestle one final match, and defeated Orlando Jordan in Barcelona, Spain in a match booked by the Italian Nu-Wrestling Evolution promotion on June 25, 2008

About the Video

-Released on September 27, 2005
-Run time 90 min
-Produced by the WWE
-Depicted the wrestling career of The Ultimate Warrior

Pros

-The video showed some pictures of Warrior's early career in CWA, UWF, WCCW
-The video starts of well by picturing The Ultimate Warrior as a charismatic guy who worked hard.
-The video shows footage from Warrior's notable matches such as Wrestle mania VI against Hulk Hogan and Wrestle mania VII against Randy Savage
-The commentary by Chris Jericho and Christian was amusing

Cons

-Jim Hellwig / Warrior was not in the video due to being in bad terms with the WWE
-Derogatory comments by Ric Flair, Ted Dibiase, Jim Ross, Edge, Bobby Heenan Gene Okerlund, Jerry Lawler and Hulk Hogan
-The video showed the warrior as someone with promos not making sense, no in ring ability, not being one of the boys, who did not care for the business and who was greedy.
-No full matches were featured
-The Ultimate Warrior was pictured in a negative light

The Verdict

The initial part of the video was good as it featured the Ultimate Warrior as a wrestling superstar. However, as the video progressed you could see its true colors. The video was totally biased in favor of Vince McMahon and the WWE. As you could infer from the title of the video itself was a prelude to the demolition job WWE was going to do through this video. For the most part the video was a demolition job plain and simple.

I did not like how the video characterized the Ultimate Warrior. The video depicted The Ultimate Warrior as a person who was self-centered crazy, and greedy. The video downplayed The Ultimate Warrior's contribution to the WWE and wrestling in general.The video also focused a lot on The Ultimate Warrior's lack of in-ring ability. It should be noted though that Hulk Hogan, Batista, John Cena and Bill Goldberg became big stars without having the skills of a Bret Hart or a Kurt Angle. Sometimes a good physique, mic skills or charisma can be enough.Several times the Ultimate Warrior's absence of in-ring skills was stated. The Ultimate Warrior had in-ring skills. It was just not that varied and diverse.

Overall, I was appalled by what the WWE can stoop to just to destroy the Ultimate Warrior's reputation. Videos like this should highlight both the good and bad points of an athlete. I own Michael Jordan videos and they depict both good and bad. It showed when he was a one-man team who tried to win ball games by himself and showed his gambling problem (negative) and also showed his six championships and his various accomplishments (positive).

© TheChosen1. Review is published in other sites under the same name

-Previously published in Ciao and Dooyoo
-The Ultimate Warrior's profile is sourced from wikipedia