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Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig; June 16, 1959 – April 8, 2014) was an American professional wrestler and bodybuilder.Best known by his ring name The Ultimate Warrior, he wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1987 to 1992, as well as a short stint in 1996.
The main singles match on the card was between Ravishing Rick Rude versus The Ultimate Warrior for the WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship. They had a "Super Posedown" at the Royal Rumble in January 1989 which was won by Warrior, prompting Rude to angrily attack him with a steel workout bar. [11]
Rick Rude defended his Intercontinental Championship primarily against The Ultimate Warrior, but also against other faces such as Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Jimmy Snuka. Later in the summer of 1989, Rude began badmouthing Roddy Piper, and Piper would play a key role in Rude's ultimate title loss back to The Ultimate Warrior.
April 2, 1989: WrestleMania V: Atlantic City, NJ: 1 148: 147 [19] 15 The Ultimate Warrior: August 28, 1989: SummerSlam: East Rutherford, NJ: 2 218: 215 [20] [21] — Vacated: April 3, 1990: Wrestling Challenge: Syracuse, NY — — — Warrior relinquished the title after winning the WWF Championship in order to focus on defending the latter.
Survivor Series is an annual gimmick pay-per-view (PPV), produced every November by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) since 1987. In what has become the second longest running pay-per-view event in history (behind WWE's WrestleMania), it is one of the promotion's original four pay-per-views, along with WrestleMania, Royal Rumble, and SummerSlam, which were dubbed the "Big Four". [1]
The event had an announced attendance of 67,678, a record for the Skydome at the time. The main event of WrestleMania VI was "the Ultimate Challenge" — pitting WWF World Heavyweight Champion Hulk Hogan against WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Champion the Ultimate Warrior in a Winner Takes All match.
The Ultimate Warriors (The Ultimate Warrior, Jim Neidhart, Shawn Michaels and Marty Jannetty) defeated The Heenan Family (Bobby Heenan, André the Giant, Haku and Arn Anderson) in a 4-on-4 Survivor Series match [14] December 7 NJPW: G1 Climax: Tokyo, Japan: Shinya Hashimoto defeated Riki Choshu in the finals December 10 FMW: Battle Creation ...
April 2, 1989: WrestleMania V: Atlantic City, NJ: 2 364: 364 The title was renamed the WWF Championship in May 1989. [citation needed] [41] 14 The Ultimate Warrior: April 1, 1990: WrestleMania VI: Toronto, ON, Canada: 1 293: 293 This was a title vs. title match in which Warrior also defended the Intercontinental Championship. [42] 15 Sgt ...