WWE Hall Of Famer Reveals He Trained The Ultimate Warrior For Final Match
A WWE Hall of Famer did his part to get The Ultimate Warrior ready for his final match.
The Ultimate Warrior is a WWE Hall of Famer, a former WWE Champion, and one of the most iconic stars in the history of the business.
During his controversial career, the Warrior had a volatile relationship with former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon, marked by contract disputes and other issues.
Like many people who had bitter pasts with WWE, Warrior found his way back to the company and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2014 during WrestleMania 30 weekend. He also did a promo on Monday Night Raw. Sadly, he died the next day when he returned home. He was 54 years old.
The last time The Ultimate Warrior had a match was in June 2008 as part of an event called NWE Summer Tour 2008. Warrior beat former WWE US Champion Orlando Jordan to win the NWE World Heavyweight Title.
Since that match with Jordan was ten years after Warrior’s previous last match in WCW in 1998, Warrior called on WWE Hall of Famer Rob Van Dam to help him train.
While speaking on his 1 of a Kind podcast, RVD revealed that a mutual friend put the wrestling legends in touch to set up the training.
“He told me that Ultimate Warrior was interested in working out with me. He wanted me to train him. He’s not been in the ring in 10 years, and he’s got a match coming up in, I think it was Spain, with Orlando Jordan.
I was like, ‘Well, yeah, you know, Mike, that’d be awesome. I got conditions. I want to be able to film it, you know. And I’ll make episode for RVD TV that would be huge, you know. And It’d be an honor, everything.’ And he agreed to it.”
RVD Explains What It Was Like Training The Ultimate Warrior
As he continued, Rob Van Dam spoke about training with The Ultimate Warrior and also revealed that he did an impression of Warrior as well.
“I picked him up from the airport. LAX picked him up, and we went to the school, and we worked out, you know, I put him through my stretch, which really, you know, that takes a long time.
After an hour of stretching, nobody wanted to do anything. He ran the ropes a few times. You know, there wasn’t much of me actually training him by example. But he wanted me to bump a few times for him, whatever it was, it wasn’t really extensive.
And that is where I shot the video, where I got the Sharpies. Yeah. He knew what I was gonna do. I was like, ‘Here, just come in and interrupt me, and I’m just gonna do you.’ You know, ‘what are you gonna say?’ ‘I don’t know. Whatever comes to me.’”