So, 1998 was a totally mad year for pro wrestling, mostly because we did have the Monday Night War,

be it degeneration X, Bill Goldberg or Steve Austin. Kids would have remote controls in their hands

and they would skip from one channel to the next, they just wanted to know what's going to go down.

I mean, you could argue that sports entertainment was all popular than ever, then you have to compare that to the 80s,

but either way, it had exploded and it felt awesome. We then got a massive surprise though, because in that same year, the Ultimate Warrior Return. And when you do do some research, it's not the biggest surprise, because of course, in late 1997, Vince McMahon, as he was wont to do, reached out to the real life Jim Helwig. I was like, hey Jim, why don't you come back? And you can see the contract. We'll try and make sure it gets on screen right now, but make sure you read it with your own eyes. And every time this gets brought up, I always think about Brett Hart. He just left because Vincent told him, sorry, pal, we don't have enough money. And then he offered millions of dollars to the ultimate warrior. I mean, no wonder Brett Hight is so pissed these days. That's every single right. Now, I guess that is what opened up the door for Eric Bischoff.

He obviously... offered millions of dollars to the Ultimate Warrior. I mean, no wonder Brett Hiss so pissed these days.

That's every single right. Now, I guess that is what opened up the door for Eric Bischoff. He of head honcho fame at WCW to pick up the phone and say, oh, hi, Ultimate Warrior. Do you want to come in here instead? I guess because he was offered a lot of money, the warrior who had said he was retired, decided to renege on that and yep he popped up on wcw nitro.

It also met another legacy star had made the jump, and really you could already smell this from a mile away. It almost felt like, well, wait a minute, back at WrestleMania 6, Hulk Hogan and the Altum Warrior had contested with each other, and Hulk Hogan had lost, and if you can believe it, the Hulkster had never got his win back, so maybe we should do it

now. It all went down on the August 17th Nitro and even the location is something that we should

talk about because yes, it was in Connecticut, which was essentially the WWS backyard. I don't

think that was by accident because of the tie period too. You also had Hulk Hogan in the ring with

the NWO going, there is no warrior who can beat me. I always think it's so ridiculous when somebody does that. If nothing else, you're telling the fans, and once the fans do work it out, where you just stepped on somebody's pop. It worked, though, because the ultimate warrior, known as Warrior, did arrive. His entrance was so over the top with lights and smoke. And this is one of the best

stories from the Monday Night Wars, because he had been a lot in 10 minutes to cut his big promo and tell Eric Bischoff, he sucks, and tell Hulk Hogan, I'm coming for you, brother. And again, you go watch us for yourself. It comes over 20. It may be close to 25. And while I would love to tell you what the warrior was going on about, I do not know. Even though it was 30 years ago,

and I've watched this probably about 12 or so times, I have no idea what he's saying. He talks about spaceships and coats and who knows what else. The warrior just had his own language in his head and while there was something captivating about it as during his peak in the mid-90s, it still

didn't make any sense.

Bishop of a spoken about the fact that he was in the ring, so he was freaking out because he was the producer of the show, and they were still life on TNT, so they had to cut to the advert, but they weren't able to do it because the warrior just wouldn't stop talking. Now at first, Eric was like, oh, I get it, man. He's just come back to pro wrestling.

Maybe he was just overly excited.

And then the warrior would continue to do this for weeks. Now, there are two things to this. I'm sure if it was anybody else, Eric Bischoff would have cut him off, but you can't do that when someone just debuted because you'll ruin the momentum. But also, too, if you cut a promo for two hours, and it's the greatest interview of all time, and ratings go through the roof one is going to complain but dare I said and there are some statistics to back this up a lot of people enjoyed the first five minutes because the ultimate warrior was back then they went click and change a channel for this point on as we did lead into the full brawl pay-per-view the ultimate warrior would turn up sporadically and, every single time he had a microphone in his hand,

it was all like, oh, the Kerbets from the planet Zon are going to come down and they're going to tie the laces on my boot. My boots is going to be on my head because I'm actually wearing pants. It's like, well, that's very interesting, Mr. Warrior. But I don't really know what I meant to do with that information, but I do hope you're well. Jim Hellwig as well also sat down and came up what I think he thought was quite a creative concept.

Because he did start telling us about the one worry. of that information, but I do hope you're well. Jim Hellwig as well also sat down and came up

what I think he thought was quite a correct concept. He did start telling us about the One Warrior Nation or the OWN. I don't have to tell you this, but I will just in case it hasn't hit your brain. I was like 30 years old before I realized Paul Behrer was a pun. He was taking on the NWO and when you reverse that you get the OWN or the one warrior nation.

Now this fell off the rails right away because he would attack the disciple who was essentially

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