Goldberg is awesome value, he was huge when WCW ruled the world.

well, he had a great winstrol body, so that may be why vince pushed him, not like vince hasn't pushed guys with great bodies before or since, o wait

Vince pushed him largely because he was so ridiculously popular that he couldn't pass it up.

Sober up dude.

how does someone get popular 1) they have the ability to get over to a crowd or 2) vince pushes them to the moon during a hot period and gets his full weight behind it and has the right guys put said wrestler over

Warrior doesn't do jack w/o Hogan, DiBiases, and unnamed. Plain and simple, Vince went after him from Dallas because of his body, Warrior wasn't exactly shooting up the card for a dying promotion like WCCW.

again, he was pure crap and a pure vince creation

I've read the original plan for WrestleMania VI's main event was Hulk Hogan vs. Zeus.

me thinks you've been doing too much candy if you actually think that Jim Hellwig actually deserves to be drafted at all, moreless in teh second round when there have been big drawing champs that are a million miles ahead of him in all aspects of wrestling

He was the top guy for less than 3 years and got into disputes with McMahon several times, being fired three times. He bombed huge in WCW, due in large part to the fact that he had creative control over his own storylines (LOL OWN). His interviews are rambling incoherent nonsense. He gasses himself before the matches even start. His in-ring work is turrible. Other than that he's great.

I was a big Warrior fan when I was growing up. I totally marked out watching him squash unnamed. But then after Hogan passed the torch to him, he totally bombed being the #1 guy and proved himself completely unreliable at every turn.

This round has been really interesting to me, in that a lot of guys I liked but thought would slip a little bit and be great value, instead are going earlier than I expected because everyone else (or a lot of people) felt the way I did. This includes Perfect, Funk, Piper (who I wish I had pushed for), Roberts (although I think he went a little too early, but I still love him), Steamboat (who I was pushing for our second-rounder), Vader and Dusty (great great pick there). Meanwhile, a guy like Edge who I thought would go earlier actually slipped and became a value pick, and there's a couple other guys like that as well. It's been interesting.

Warrior/Hogan 1 was one of the biggest matches in WWE history while Warrior/Hogan 2 was one of the worst matches of all time.

I think if Edge wasn't hurt right now, he would have gone earlier. He's just been out of everyone's mind for months.

to say the least. Its created a lot of fun discussion though. Still loving mine and deezy's Terry Funk pick and people trying to say he wasn't good based on garbage matches that he did in his 50s and 60s

I think overall this has been a problem with Edge. It seems over the past 8 years or so, that everytime he's been primed for a big run that he's gotten injured, mostly due to his in-ring style(which is both a blessing and a bane). I love the pick as I'm an Edge fan, it just sucks that he's had as many injuries that he's had

This is such an understatement. The guy is as elite as it gets with the mic.

+1

+1, I thought he was a first rounder for sure and considered him at #14

wait what? many people have said Flair should have been #1 overall

+1. I was very surprised to see people hate on the Cena pick. He could have went in the first round and I wouldn't have blinked. The guy is a legit superstar. Many of you are overrating guys with good ability that weren't stars because you like watching them wrestling. You guys aren't the ones that make the owners millions of dollars though, 12 year olds and their parents are. Cena is so much better in this draft than a guy like RVD.

If you were putting together a real wrestling organization, it wouldn't be very successful based on this post.

+million

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF4ZT...eature=related

I'm glad some people realize this.

I disagree with this, it is like saying that most movie goers don't care about how well the movie is shot. They might not explicitly recognize it, but their enjoyment is tied to the quality of the fight. Considering Warrior wasn't good on the mike or in the ring and didn't have a good gimmick, it's clear he was only successful because of a Vince push.

I think Warrior and Goldberg are the same pick and both are bad.
I think Edge was a very good pick.

Untouchable, I'm DEAD certain that I can put together a promotion that doesn't inclcude the Ultimate Warrior and have it be very successful. In fact, I'm DEAD certain that many people can put together highly successful promotions sans Ult Warrior in his "prime"


I may be a smark, but I'm also not out of touch. Ultimate Warrior just doesn't cut it in any promotion outside of some quick nostaligia value

(I hate to give these links away, but it's the only decent video I could find to introduce him)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCUQKiQadrA&feature=fvw

2012 made $65.2 million this weekend.

You do realize the a really big % of the wrestling fan contingent is made up of kids and ...not extremely educated people right? This isn't a buncha movie critics here bro. They aren't sitting around sipping Cabernet talking about the technical precision of a headlock or something. They're screaming because Warriors music just came on and he won a match in 30 seconds against UnNamed.

Race was on our shortlist but I guess we just decided he wasn't a good pick to work with Vince. Maybe we failboated there.

Then why was he one of the biggest superstars in the history of wrestling? How come everyone I knew had Ultimate Warrior gear and he was their favorite wrestler? That nostalgia is there for a reason. The Warrior has made the WWF more inflation adjusted money than most guys will make them in 20 years.

littlekeed you bastard

+1000000

I don't know if people missed my stories of watching old WWF videos when I was FOUR years old. I'm sure I loved Hulk Hogan then because of his superior wrestling ability.

I'll disagree with the Goldberg/Warrior comparison in that Goldberg always came off as somewhat believable, especially in a wrestling environment that was increasingly unbelievable. While Goldberg did get pushed too far too fast, he had a hell of a lot more talent then the dolt Jim Hellwig. Goldberg at least understood somewhat doing a job and putting someone over, Ultimate Warrior had/has zero concept of that function