Ultimate Warrior Talks About His WWE Career and Vince McMahon

WWE.com has published a new exclusive video where the Ultimate Warrior talks about his WWE career and Vince McMahon. As we previously reported, Warrior has signed on with 2K Sports to be a featured “downloadable” character in the upcoming video game, WWE 2K14.

Just four days after the announcement of Warrior’s involvement with the project, Vince McMahon, who has had very ugly and public disputes with Warrior over the last twenty years, welcomed the “man from Parts Unknown” back to the WWE via his Twitter account. There has not been any kind of talk about bringing the Ultimate Warrior back onto WWE television, but if Warrior and McMahon are on good terms, you never say never.

During the new interview with Warrior that was recently posted on WWE.com, he talks about his career, where he started, what things were like creatively in those days, and his admiration for McMahon.

On creative ideas for characters back in the 1980’s: “…and at the time the business was different. There weren’t writers, there weren’t creative people, and there weren’t costume people to help you do your thing. You know, you had to do your own thing. Macho Man, and all of the other characters then, they would get the opportunity if you had the charisma, the skill set, the speaking ability, the creativity, and you can make a character happen, they’d let you do it. The business has changed. It’s a different culture you know?

On where the Ultimate Warrior came from and how he got in the WWE(F): “I was in WCCW in Texas and the first time I worked for them, this is a story that you don’t even hear no more, while I was working down there Vince had done his first Wrestlemania. He had a guy working for him at the time named George Scott and he was on his way to Florida. He was a friend of Fritz Von Erich, who owned the promotion WCCW and Fritz asked him to come down and take over the book down there for a while. He came in and started doing that and then an old time wrestler, Bronko Lubich, pulled me aside one night and said I heard George Scott got on the phone today and he was talking to somebody from New York and he was talking about somebody down here that’s got this talent. It’s raw, but you know. He said don’t you tell anybody cause I’ll deny it.

The next thing I know I got a call from Vince and Pat Patterson asking me what the Dingo Warrior was. And then they were doing a show in Tyler, Texas and they had Koko B. Ware and Randy [Savage] and Junkyard Dog. So I go down there and they say you want to come down and perform? So I go down there and people went crazy. They asked me if I wanted to go on the road for a while. I packed my bag and went on the road for like 46 days and didn’t go home. And uh, I knew what they were doing; they were trying to burn me out. And I just hung in there, kept my nose clean and stuff. They kept me off Television, I did the Dingo Warrior thing, and then eight or nine months later they put my on TV for the first time and it just took off from there.”

On his respect for Vince McMahon: “Vince is intense, man. He goes around the clock and I was the same way. Some of the people that knew both of us said that the problem was they were too much like each other. That’s why WWE has succeeded, because Vince shows up and he works everyday. Most people don’t get that, that’s the secret to being successful like that. And he does and I admired that. I still do, even after all the years of fighting with him. I respect him more than anybody else.”

Warrior also thanks his fans for still loving the Ultimate Warrior character. You can watch the entire interview below.