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Date Posted: 01:12:15 01/09/03 Thu
Author: Scrapiron Bryan
Author Host/IP: pg4px.pg.com / 192.229.17.113
Subject: Re: Who suggested "Ultimate"?
In reply to: Hakan 's message, "Who suggested "Ultimate"?" on 11:24:04 01/08/03 Wed

Hi, welcome to the board. That's an interesting story.
In an interview in 10/97 Warrior was asked "How did you come up with the idea of the Ultimate Warrior?"

He answered;

"Specifically, Ultimate Warrior...many of you will know, and once again if not I'll tell you, when I first went to the WWF they tested me...meaning I had not yet appeared on TV. I had come to the WWF from World Class Championship Wrestling where I had already made a character quite popular even with limited regional exposure. I'm talking about the Dingo Warrior. The Warrior concept was developed in World Class Championship Wrestling. When I went to the WWF, I continued to use the Warrior character exactly as it had been used in World Class Championship wrestling up until my first television appearance for the WWF. I remember very clearly how it happened. Titan, at that time, used to do these things called 'pretapes' wherein while you were wrestling in your match, a smaller screen would be inset where you would be cutting a promo about an opponent or whatever it may be. My pretape for my first television appearance was simply me introducing myself. My first television appearance was taped in Green Bay, and around the same time the Pile Driver album was being produced and in these make ready interview rooms where they set up where they tape television, I had been asked earlier in the day to tape my pretape. As I said, my introduction. When I walked into the room Vince was there with probably 12-15 of the top talent back then. That would have been Hillbilly Jim, Don Moraco, Bob Orton, Koko B Ware, Greg Valentine, The Bulldogs. Vince summons everyone to take a break but the Bulldogs over the last 8-9 months while I was being tested had become good friends. Since they knew it was my first television appearance, they stayed in the room to try to make me lose my concentration in front of Vince, and of course to make me screw up my pretape. As everyone cleared out of the room except the Bulldogs and a couple of other guys, Vince told me what I was to do, I was to do my pretape introducing myself. He told me to drop the Dingo, and just use Warrior. Well, as the camera rolled, and I was cutting the promo I said "I am not this Warrior, I am not that Warrior, I am the Ultimate Warrior". When Vince first heard it, he yelled at the camera guy to cut, and said 'What'd he say, what'd he say'. The Bulldog's in their accent yelled "Ultimate", and Vince goes "Ultimate, Ultimate...I like it, let's go with it". For the next few months Dynamite Kid and Davey Boy Smith wouldn't let up on how everything went down. That's how I came up with Ultimate.

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