1-on-1 with DP – 93.7 The Ticket KNTK - The Ultimate Warrior: March 18th, 10:45am

Episode Date: March 18, 2022

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You're listening to One-on-One with D.P. Brought to you by Beatrice Bakery. On 937 The Ticket and the Ticketfm.com. Pump up the muscles. Paint your face. Get the right colors. Spray your hair. Find all the pieces of string to tie around your bicep.

Make them colorful as well. Find the tightest shorts known the man. You have them, don't lie. Facts. Sprint to the ring. Run as fast as you can. Grab the ropes. Get a good grip.

And shake them like a madman. That is the ultimate warrior. But you have to say it the way he say it. Warrior. And that's how you can sound out into a Friday. That's a good one. Right. Like, that's how you leave a Friday.

That's how you head into the weekend. But you have to raise your heads to the heavens. Wrestlers back in the day were so weird, but I love it. I think it was so awesome. The text on Josh asked the question if I ever met Ultimate Warrior. Yeah, I have to tell you. They tell you not to meet your heroes. Never do.

Right? I will avoid meeting my heroes at all times, except for the time I met Wilhelm. It was a good time. They tell you not, too. I met him back when he was a part of a tag team with Stain. So when he, yeah, this was early. This was before he was Ultimate Warrior. But Helwig was to say that he might have been the ultimate weight head.

You know, you're going to see people who call him Meatheads? He was the ultimate weighthead that he was about his body. And because not everybody was built the way he was. Nobody put in the work that he did. Like it just, he and Sting were two, you know, they were hanging out on beaches in San Diego and just working out like madmen. But he was the dingo warrior back then. He was the dingo warrior.

And he and Sting, you know, hung out and kind of built their own place and space. But he, ultimately, he was a Midwest kid. He's from Omaha. Or not him. Indiana. Sting's, Sting's from Omaha. He's from Indiana. Sting's from Omaha.

But that was kind of why it was weird because he and Sting were not surfer dudes. No. But they were Midwest dudes who were. Are you sure? The waves in Indiana and Nebraska are pretty cool, pretty good. Not quite the same. Pretty solid. Not quite the same.

But he went to Indiana State University. Okay, Larry Bird. Yeah, yeah. He was part of that, you know, big-time bodybuilder type dude. He was very introspective. Like, he questioned himself a lot. And that was what drove him. It led to that thing that ambition, unfiltered ambition, can drive you crazy.

and I was like, dude, you're big enough. Like, seriously, like you're big enough. Never big enough. And that was the thing, never big enough. So, kind of the face of steroids in pro wrestling. He and Hogan, Lex Lugar, well, because it affected them out in real life. And was, macho man was. Mato are definitely.

Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Just like you see the size of the biceps on some of the guys back then, and there's no way they weren't. Well, the thing with Warrior was that when he became the thing, like he wasn't prepared to become the face of WWE. Like, he just wasn't. He just wasn't.

Like, not when Hulk and Andre are still there, no. Matured man, there's still Bricky Steamboat. No. Like he wasn't, and he wasn't prepared. And it was too much too soon. it was too much too soon because then he didn't know how to do the business like he didn't understand the contracts um you know uh the merchandising the marketing and merchandising um the marketing

and merchandising that was being done for him he was not prepared for and did not know how to reap the benefit up um you know even with music and and w f music i mean that that licensing had value. So he was thrown into deep water with some real sharks and just wasn't prepared for it. But that's the story of a bunch of this. And it affected him. Yeah, that when they went to trial, when W.W. W. Vincent McMahon goes to trial. Warrior was the guy they threw under the bus more than Hogan. They threw him under

the bus. And when he came back, because he left, because he thought he wasn't being paid enough. And when he left, and came back, he had to do it without steroids. And the fans were like, well, wait a minute, what happened to the big blown-up dude? Which was actually healthier for him,

but it wasn't better for him professionally. Because before he would run to the ring, and dude, he couldn't wrestle long matches because he was done. He was wiped out. Like that sprint to the ring. I mean, imagine all that blood pump.

It's farther than you think it is. It's farther than you think it is. And then if you're, I mean, the phrase they use is, he's blown up, that when you run to the ring and you do your interest and he shakes the ropes.

And he's like jumping up on the turnbuffles. Yeah, and he's all tied up. And your blood is just like, hey, yo, bro. And you got all this muscle that you need to get blood to. The strings were tight. Yeah, like, there are things that were going on. So, yeah, it's, the stories behind the stories are, there's a pretty good documentary on the warrior that they did.

Of course, with his wife. And now they have an award in his name. He went a little, little wonky after. his career at appearances where he and some other wrestlers would get into it and people make fun of his promos, which were just kind of all over the place and didn't really make sense. But a good dude, a good-hearted dude, probably more sensitive than you can imagine. Super sensitive. So that's not where we intended to go, but that's okay.

We will head down to Buffalo Wings and Rings, 68th and O for March Mayam. We'll be there until 6 o'clock. The Captain's Show is up next with Steve Taylor Taylor made he'll be down to Buffalo wings rings we'll be down there

Rico be down there with Nick from two to three I hang out then you'll have Bach and Nate will be there while his hokey's are on come and give Nate some grief

or come and give him support either way I cannot wait for that either way how many people does Varshang call out today like 20 everybody

yeah okay yeah so I'll see you down there oh yeah everybody have a great friend Oh yeah. Go big red.