RIP Big Van Vader

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

What about Warrior?

just saying

aside from the heavy sweats...there was no way anyone knew Warrior was dying

 

[julesocean]

Dam and we were just reminiscing about him in that other thread. Now we gotta reminisce with a heavy heart. RIP, hit them moonsaults in the clouds big guy.

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

What about Warrior?

just saying

aside from the heavy sweats...there was no way anyone knew Warrior was dying

Pretty much this. Also, Warrior dying literally days after the ceremony sort of justifies the case.

 

[mson]

 

[K-Apps]

What about Warrior?

just saying

Warrior probably knew his time was short, but I doubt anybody within WWE knew.

http://www.pwpix.net/ultimate-warrior/

Sources say Warrior and his family were made aware of his greatly failing health—it was the precursor for him to make amends with WWE as a way to both say good-bye and also to provide his family income.

Warrior had admitted to fearing an early death in the past. In a 1999 deposition, he addressed this in the context of his father’s passing at 57-years-old three years earlier.

“I’m thinking about, you know—I just had my 37th birthday. I got 20 years left in my life maybe. I mean, you know, I’m doing these calculations in my head. My grandfathers die at 52.”

 

[Another Man]

That match vs Stan Hansen where his eye popped out, and he pushed it back in and kept going

RIP to a monster and a real one

 

[HipHopStan]

Inexcusable that he died before getting in the hall of fame.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

i forget if it's wrestling with shadows or beyond the mat, but there's this part where they show vader as this giant monster beating the shyt out of people and then they cut to a shoot with him in the locker room quietly and calmly discussing his real estate holdings

 

[GPBear]

RIP

The story about his eyeball was the GOAT wrestling lore

 

[HipHopStan]

This was my first time seeing a wrestler get them hands on an authority figure:

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Vader's squash matches were must see TV


The clothesline at 1:50:merchant:

Dude used to have handicapped squash matches and destroy both of em. He'd beat up one and drag him to the corner to tag in the other partner



This imfamous powerbomb on concrere still hurts


People forget this powerbomb outside the ring happened first on Worldwide


The time his eyeball legit popped out during a match and he pushed it back in

 

[patscorpio]

i forget if it's wrestling with shadows or beyond the mat, but there's this part where they show vader as this giant monster beating the shyt out of people and then they cut to a shoot with him in the locker room quietly and calmly discussing his real estate holdings

Vader was an intelligent guy in real life...that kayfabe was so strong it made stuff like that hard to believe

 

[Marlo Barksdale]

Act like Vader wasn't born and raised in Compton and didn't come to the ring wearing a du-rag like right here (classic match btw).

 

[Spartan]

We all know the WWE HOF is bullshyt, but Vader really wanted to get in there while he was alive. It's a disgrace they didn't give it to him and the fans.

He is more deserving than most of the people already in there.

 

[Nintendough]

First Bam Bam and now Vader. All the athletic big men are leaving us