"The Million Dollar Man" Ted DiBiase recently said The Ultimate Warrior almost joined the 2010 WWE Hall Of Fame, talked about a miscommunication between them and that Warrior needs to come off his pedestal.
"There was a miscommunication back in 2010 in terms of - this was the year I was inducted into the Hall of Fame - and if I'm not mistaken, Vince had offered Warrior the Hall of Fame that year," DiBiase said during the July 19 PWTorch.com livecast. "The word I had was it was conditional with him on getting an apology for the DVD, 'The Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior.' And Vince did not do that."
"Now, the last big (blow-up) with me and Warrior was someone asked me, 'If Vince McMahon would have asked me, [Ted, do you think Ultimate Warrior deserves to be put in the Hall of Fame?] What would you have said?' I said I would have said no," DiBiase said. "In my opinion, the Hall of Fame isn't just about how good you are as a wrestler, it's about your total contribution to the industry. Knowing his history, it's kind of like he came in and used the business and everybody else in it."
"Somehow word got back to him that I had been asked by Vince McMahon. Of course, that wasn't true. Then, he went on a tirade about me and how I let myself go toward the end of my career. I was like, 'Do you not have anything better to do?'" DiBiase said. "I said I am not going to spend the time answering all of this, but I am simply going to say: 'When that DVD was done, independent of one another, 10 or 12 of the most-respected guys in our industry said the same thing.' And I said, 'I never heard you say nothing negatively about yourself. As far as my faults go, I wrote a whole book about it.'"
"Again, I don't hate Jim; I don't hate anybody. I would be more than happy to sit down with Jim Hellwig and talk this thing through. If you're willing to admit to having a fault. But, to this day, it's like he doesn't have any," DiBiase said.
"Here's my point. Does Jim Hellwig have some charisma? Absolutely. Was the guy absolutely - you can't look like that and not be dedicated. You talk about to maintain his body like that and work the schedule that we had to work is incredible. I always gave him credit for that, but that aside, what did you bring to the plate?" DiBiase said. "It's kind of like talking about Junkyard Dog (earlier). JYD was not a great wrestler; he was a great character. He did not have a great physique, but he knew it and he appreciated the people who took care of him, like me and so many other guys. That's all; that's all many of us are saying. 'Come down off your pedestal.'"
"Here's the thing with him and me or him and any number of other guys, there wasn't a whole lot he could control because he didn't know how to work. He had to be in there with someone who could tell him what to do," DiBiase said. "He had a phenomenal body and he had a gigantic push, (but) he couldn't do that today because there aren't as many guys available today who could take him in the ring and make him look that good."
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