Movie review: The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior

If you watched pro wrestling growing up and have good memories wrestling with your brothers or friends pretending to be your favorite wrestlers, including the Ultimate Warrior, you really need to check out this DVD. It was definitely entertaining in itself, but the best part about it for me was how it brought back a lot of "kid" feelings and how awesome wrestling was to us back then. Sure it's fake and the characters are ridiculous, but that's what made it so great!

This DVD profiles one of the most wildly popular wrestlers when I was growing up, The Ultimate Warrior. I had forgotten what made him so awesome, but it talks about his theme song, how he always ran to the ring full-speed, and how his matches were so intense and quick and just totally full of energy. Pete and I got some great laughs during the segment that talked about his interviews and how they really didn't make any sense at all. We also got some chuckles watching clips from his matches and how he would be getting destroyed and then start shaking and jogging in place while shaking his fist in the air, and then in 10 sec flat, have his opponent pinned. So awesome.

Apparently, the Ultimate Warrior was hard to work with and many people didn't like him. But because he was such a popular attraction, he had 2 chances to comeback in the WWE and 1 in the WCW. Interviews with Hulk Hogan, Sgt Slaughter, the Brooklyn Brawler, Bobby "the Brain" Heenan, Ric Flair, and others provide some insight on what he was like. Currrently, Warrior is doing inspirational lectures! We gotta check that out!!

We weren't crazy wrestling fans growing up, but I had forgotten how much fun it was to come home after Sat and Sun morning swim practices, have breakfast, and then watch wrestling at like 10 or 11am. Doug and I wrestled with each other a lot (what brothers don't?), always pretending to be differest pro wrestlers, and thinking back on it really makes me laugh and smile a lot inside. Good times. I remember a lot about wrestling with Doug, but I really only have one good story that is somewhat worth telling - the time when I picked a fight with him while he was doing his homework on the sofa, and he kept holding onto his pencil while we were wrestling, which of course cut me under my eye. Of course I got pissed off at him, but really it was my fault of course. Ah the memories.

So check out the DVD! Dragon bought this copy from Amazon, but I was thinking that I need to buy one for myself. It's also got 5 full matches on there as extras!