April 07, 2005
Unprofessional Wrestling
I usually turn to Cliopatria to keep up to date on campus speech controversies. So I'm surprised that I beat my colleagues there to the following scoop: This past Tuesday, the College Republicans at the University of Connecticut invited Jim Hellwig, better known as face-painted pro wrestler “The Ultimate Warrior” to speak at their school. But students in attendance were shocked, shocked when, instead of comporting himself like a proper professional wrestler, the Ultimate Warrior launched into an angry, incoherent tirade.
Students started heckling Hellwig when his remarks turned (allegedly) racist and homophobic. The Ultimate Warrior (who, you may recall, bested Ravishing Rick Rude in a steel cage match at Summer Slam ’89) only got angrier, and eventually campus security had to shut the event down.
The UConn College Republicans have apologized for the incident, but Warrior (my Chicago Manual tells me it is correct to drop “the Ultimate” after second reference) appears unrepentant. In a memo “from the desk of Warrior,” he dubs the UConn Republicans “spineless,” and calls his critics the “World Class Crew of Crybabies.” (Which is ironic, because I’m pretty sure the WC3 took on the Hart Foundation in Wrestlemania 4.)
(Crossposted to Cliopatria.)
(Edit: David Noon's Axis of Evel Knievel has the story in more chair-throwing, turnbuckle-smashing, pile-driving detail.)
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even more shit on the warrior:
www.geocities.com/ultimateracist
Posted by: none at April 11, 2005 05:04 AM
Wow . . . Just . . . wow . . .
And as a former Minnesotan, I thought Jesse "The Body" Ventura was a seismic embarrassment. But this guy makes Ventura sound like Lewis Lapham....
Posted by: David Noon at April 15, 2005 03:33 AM
Wow . . . Just . . . wow.
As a former Minnesotan, I thought Jesse "The Body" Ventura was a seismic embarrassment. But this guy makes Ventura sound like Lewis Lapham.
Posted by: David Noon at April 15, 2005 03:35 AM
"Makes Ventura sound like Lewis Lapham." That is a great phrase. :)
I think I want that on a bumper sticker.
Posted by: Rob at April 15, 2005 10:05 AM
I wrote about this
here
enjoy
Posted by: Azeem at May 13, 2005 10:41 PM
