With his bulging biceps, colorful face paint, and positively wild promos, The Ultimate Warrior was the perfect embodiment of WWE's larger-than-life cartoon-like aesthetic in the 1980s and early 1990s.

The Ultimate Warrior personified the larger-than-life cartoon characters who helped skyrocket the WWE into a mainstream phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Ultimate Warrior In WWE: How It Started, How It Ended. Sega/WWE. ... time has made it easier to forget a host of inconvenient truths and marvel at these cartoons brought to life.

In his autobiography, Hitman: My Real Life in the Cartoon World of Wrestling, Bret Hart talked about that time the Ultimate Warrior also encountered a fan whose one wish was to meet his hero.When ...

Up until WrestleMania VI, The Ultimate Warrior was used to having matches that only spanned a couple of minutes. Outside of his battles with the likes of Rick Rude, Hercules, and Randy Savage ...

The Ultimate Warrior personified the larger-than-life cartoon characters who helped skyrocket the WWE into a mainstream phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Ultimate Warrior put on his signature airbrushed trench coat, shook the white ring ropes, and, for a few fleeting minutes, the wrestler billed as hailing from Parts Unknown was back home in ...

STORIFY: Ultimate Warrior's death shocks WWE stars Warrior personified the larger-than-life cartoon characters who helped skyrocket the WWE into the mainstream in the late 1980s and early '90s.

The Ultimate Warrior personified the larger-than-life cartoon characters who helped skyrocket the WWE into a mainstream phenomenon in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

James Hellwig, better known as former pro wrestler The Ultimate Warrior, has died, the WWE said. He was 54. The WWE said Hellwig died Tuesday but did not give any other details.