Rock Bottom
01-06-2010, 03:42 AM
http://www.gumgod.com/derek_destruction_warrior.htm
’m not sure if a DVD like this has ever been produced. A DVD made for the sole purpose of burying a single wrestler ten feet underground. I remarked to PWTorch ROH news guy Sean Radican over this summer that I didn’t understand exactly what market the WWE was trying to reach with this release. Fans of the Ultimate Warrior certainly wouldn’t want to buy a DVD to watch their favorite guy get emasculated, would they? And fans who hated Warrior with a passion wouldn’t bother with the DVD at all.
Once again I was wrong.
Dead wrong.
The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=pwtorch-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/B000BJ65RM/qid=1127779946/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl200?v=glance&s=sporting-goods&n=507846), even with it’s absurdly short run time of under two hours, is one of WWE’s most fun DVDs to watch. I challenge anyone, Warrior fans included, to sit through this release without laughing. Not only is it a great trip down memory lane, much like Rise + Fall of ECW (http://www.pwtorch.com/artman/publish/article_10806.shtml), but it makes Jim Hellwig (a/k/a the Ultimate Warrior) out to be such a nut job that you can’t help but enjoy yourself. This is what happens when the winners write the history books and also why Bret Hart swallowed his disgust of the company to go back and work solely on his DVD. I wonder if McMahon will have the cajones to do a hatchet job on Bruno Sammartino down the line? I guess time will tell.
On to the DVD!
’m not sure if a DVD like this has ever been produced. A DVD made for the sole purpose of burying a single wrestler ten feet underground. I remarked to PWTorch ROH news guy Sean Radican over this summer that I didn’t understand exactly what market the WWE was trying to reach with this release. Fans of the Ultimate Warrior certainly wouldn’t want to buy a DVD to watch their favorite guy get emasculated, would they? And fans who hated Warrior with a passion wouldn’t bother with the DVD at all.
Once again I was wrong.
Dead wrong.
The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&camp=1789&tag=pwtorch-20&creative=9325&path=tg/detail/-/B000BJ65RM/qid=1127779946/sr=8-3/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl200?v=glance&s=sporting-goods&n=507846), even with it’s absurdly short run time of under two hours, is one of WWE’s most fun DVDs to watch. I challenge anyone, Warrior fans included, to sit through this release without laughing. Not only is it a great trip down memory lane, much like Rise + Fall of ECW (http://www.pwtorch.com/artman/publish/article_10806.shtml), but it makes Jim Hellwig (a/k/a the Ultimate Warrior) out to be such a nut job that you can’t help but enjoy yourself. This is what happens when the winners write the history books and also why Bret Hart swallowed his disgust of the company to go back and work solely on his DVD. I wonder if McMahon will have the cajones to do a hatchet job on Bruno Sammartino down the line? I guess time will tell.
On to the DVD!