Goodbye Ultimate Warrior

   You may be one of the people who thinks that professional wrestling is ridiculous.  Maybe it is.  I don't care.  I think that the world is ridiculous.  Pro wrestling though has always been able to bring a joy to my heart unlike any other.  Today however, my heart is terribly heavy.  The human race has lost one of its finest specimens and we are left now with only the aching void and the memory of a man that I had always thought to be so much larger than life that he would be larger than death as well.  Instead, reality finally sinks in today.  The Ultimate Warrior; James Brian Hellwig is dead.

   I wish I had something to say to my readers today but the words do not even exist to describe the importance of the Warrior to the world of wrestling or the level of heroism that he represented in the hearts and minds of so many people.  On this day I can do little more than let the Ultimate Warrior speak for himself...

  On Monday the Ultimate Warrior addressed a raucous New Orleans crowd with these poignant and prophetic words;

   "Every man's heart one day beats its final beat.  His lungs breathe their final breath. And if what that man did in his life makes the blood pulse through the body of others and makes them believe deeper in something larger than life, then his essence, his spirit will be immortalized by storytellers...by the loyalty, by the memory of those who honor him, and make the running the man did live forever."

 "I am the Ultimate Warrior"  He reminded us one last time, "you are the Ultimate Warrior fans and the spirit of the Ultimate Warrior will run forever."

  And so today we shall honor the life of the Ultimate Warrior and know that his memory will live on in our hearts forever as he makes one last run into the great unknown from whence he came...