Was Vince really crazy enough to offer the Ultimate Warrior 750k a year in late 97?

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

1) Just proved my point with the first bolded/underlined part. Nobody checked for him after that initial drawn-out hogan promo.

2) No the fukk they couldn't in regards to the second. Date on that letter is December 1997 and by that time Austin was about to become a superstar and Rock was starting to bubble.

1.) youre flat-out wrong.

2.) keywords: "about to" and "starting to bubble"

Awful poster

you werent around.

go sitdown somewhere.

Warrior at that point was nothing more than a nostalgia pop. Vince loved the Ultimate Warrior too much. i mean who else could get away with the shyt he was doing? Warrior, i'm guessing, must have a made a shytload of money in his first and second stints for him in order for him to be like that. After 92, Warrior wasn't shyt in the ring at all lol.

well warrior barely wrestled after '92, so i dont see what youre trying to get at.
and its not like the WWF was ever a threshold for technical wizardry to begin with.

and it aint just vince. we gonna act like bischoff wasnt trying to sign the warrior for years, and even created his own warrior for the time being??

 

[Reality Check]

1.) youre flat-out wrong.

If I'm "flat out wrong", then why was Warrior not seen for 14-15 years after Halloween Havoc? His 1996 WWE run was garbage and given the direction of the business after he was fired in 96, he was left with nostalgia pops and not much else. In December 1997, Ultimate Warrior didn't exactly scream "cool" or would have fit in at all with the attitude era. Especially when you consider the fact that Hogan's contract was coming up at the end of '97 and WWE was thinking of making a play for the bigger star with significantly less baggage. Nobody in 1997 was saying "you know what would be awesome, Ultimate Warrior coming back to feud with DX!". Not sure what you're thinking of, but in actual reality, he was a relic of the early 90's by the time he got to WCW. Hogan at least had the sense to turn heel and become Hollywood Hogan to at least keep himself relevant and current.

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

If I'm "flat out wrong", then why was Warrior not seen for 14-15 years after Halloween Havoc? His 1996 WWE run was garbage and given the direction of the business after he was fired in 96, he was left with nostalgia pops and not much else. In December 1997, Ultimate Warrior didn't exactly scream "cool" or would have fit in at all with the attitude era. Especially when you consider the fact that Hogan's contract was coming up at the end of '97 and WWE was thinking of making a play for the bigger star with significantly less baggage. Nobody in 1997 was saying "you know what would be awesome, Ultimate Warrior coming back to feud with DX!". Not sure what you're thinking of, but in actual reality, he was a relic of the early 90's by the time he got to WCW. Hogan at least had the sense to turn heel and become Hollywood Hogan to at least keep himself relevant and current.

clearly because the warrior didnt want to wrestle. not because he couldnt get a gig. SMH. youre talking silly now.

lol @ the warrior's 96 run being garbage. he was getting the biggest pops everytime he showed his face and he was the main draw for wrestlemania. half the crowd left after his match and didnt care to see bret/hbk. LOL. just say you dont like the guy and leave it at that.

so the warrior wouldnt have fit in with the attitude era?? please explain the undertaker & kane then.

if hogan just appeared sparingly after 1993, you prolly wouldve never guessed that he could turn into hollywood hogan. if the warrior stayed in a promotion long enough for his schtick to grow stale, he wouldve eventually turned into a bad ass heel with edgy promos. i mean, thats basically what he became in real life, so i dont know why you assume he was gonna be the same babyface of the late '80s/early '90s. hell, even the undertaker made a transformation into a biker, and he didnt even have jack chit to say on the mic.

 

[stro]

In every situation, if the question is "was Vince really crazy enough to X" the answer is ALWAYS yes.

 

[Da_Eggman]

Imagine the corporate warrior no lie that would of been awesome

 

[richaveli83]

I'm pretty that's fake. Vince just got done screwing Bret a month prior and was moving the WWF to a more adult centered promotion and he wants to bring in a faded star from tbe cartoon era golden age?!

 

[Mook]

He was a nostalgia act by the time he made it to WCW in 1998. The way Jim Ross talked about him recently in his podcast, there wasn't any sense of urgency to go after him in 97/98 and Vince was in agreement with him. It was WCW's problem to deal with at that point.

Doesn't matter what Ross says. We got the contract right here. 750k lol.

 

[Mook]

I'm pretty that's fake. Vince just got done screwing Bret a month prior and was moving the WWF to a more adult centered promotion and he wants to bring in a faded star from tbe cartoon era golden age?!

Vince lied to Bret nikka lmao. Check Jim Ross talking about the pay cuts. Only the wrestling marks in the office got a paycut, everyone else stayed the same. Vince said a mill a year was too much, he was saying this while no doubt already negotiating Mike Tyson to be at WrestleMania, which would probably cost 3-5 mill lol.

 

[MushroomX]

Vince will always be crazy, but at the same time he had a vision that other promoters were hesitant to admit. At some point someone was going to wipe out the territories because of television.