WWE executive Triple H was interviewed by ESPN regarding the death of WWE Hall of Famer The Ultimate Warrior, noting that he personally worked with The Ultimate Warrior for the past 18 months to get Warrior back in the company’s good books for the WWE Hall of Fame and is devastated by his passing.
“We’re devastated. It was such a wonderful homecoming, such a great celebration of an iconic career with the Hall of Fame, and the appearance at WrestleMania, and the return of the Ultimate Warrior character in-ring on Monday Night Raw. The talent were so happy, Warrior was beside himself so excited, and then to have it just come to an end a day later is just shocking and tragic and devastating to all of us.”
Triple H noted that the company is grateful that the WWE and Warrior had the chance to bury the hatchet and forget all the bad things in the past before he passed and mentioned that Warrior was so deserving of being immortalized in the WWE Hall of Fame.
“It was a wonderful opportunity for us. And we’re grateful we had the chance. For me, it was an 18-month process with Warrior; an 18-month healing process. It doesn’t happen overnight, but I think both sides have grown. He had grown as a man, we had grown as people and a company, and it was time. It was time to move on and just let the business things that had gone in the past be the past. He is so deserving of being immortalized in the Hall of Fame and to have his moment in front of his legions and legions of fans. I can tell you that that meant the world to us and, I know personally, it meant the world to him.”
On his own overall reaction, Triple H noted that the whole thing is bittersweet because it was the greatest moment that Warrior probably could have had and thinks that if someone asked Warrior about his career highlights, many people would believe that it’s WrestleMania VI when he beat Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship, however Warrior himself would tell you that he would disagree and that the greatest moment of his career came at the 2014 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony when his daughters Mattigan and Indiana walked him on-stage prior to his speech.
The interview is available below:
