Even More Various News: Warrior's Ex-Wife Pitching Book, ROH Edison Card, Khali's SD Taping Opponents
Posted by Ashish on 10.08.2008
More Wednesday news...
- The three men the Great Khali faced at the Smackdown taping last night were independent wrestlers Scotty Mac, Nelson Creed, and Aaron Bolo. [PWInsider.com]
- Here is the updated card for ROH's 10/25 Edison, NJ show.
* Jay & Mark Briscoe vs. LAX
* Go Shiozaki vs. The Necro Butcher
* Jerry Lynn vs. Tyler Black
* Brent Albright vs. Davey Richards with Larry Sweeney
* Kevin Steen & El Generico vs. The Osirian Portal
* The Age Of The Fall vs. Cheech & Cloudy
- Shari Tyree, ex-wife of Warrior "Ultimate Warrior" Warrior, is going around trying to sell the book rights of her memoir which is mostly about her marriage to Warrior and is titled "Behind the Paint; My Life with Wrestling's Ultimate Warrior." The pitch for the book is below.
For the very first time, the wife of a professional wrestling star speaks out. Shari Tyree was married for ten years to Jim Hellwig, known as the Ultimate Warrior, and saw him through his meteoric rise, and bizarre fall from the pinnacle of WWE.
Warrior packed the aisles, and was a merchandising boom to pro wrestling. Fans, known as 'Little Warriors' screamed and cheered, and then were left baffled by his abrupt disappearance at the height of his success. Only Shari Tyree knows the stunning truth behind the Warrior's face paint. Hellwig was a man possessed by demons, abusing steroids to achieve his massive, muscular frame, and then pain medications and anti-anxiety drugs to quell his fears, who had led a secretive double life that filled his marriage with turmoil and doubts about his fidelity, and even his sexuality. The avowed anti-homosexual avenger and anti-drug advocate battled with his own duality, and became the engine of his own destruction.
Behind the Paint chronicles Helwig's early career as a bodybuilder, and his stunning rise in pro wrestling, the excesses of success beyond imagination, his battles with Vince McMahon and the private life no fan could have guessed at.
Hellwig continues to be a media personality, even outside the wrestling ring, making frequent personal appearances to espouse his anti-gay, anti-drug ideals.
I don't think this would be "the first time that a wrestling wife speaks out" didn't the british Bulldog's wife write an angry book?
Posted By: Davis (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:17 PM
hah she's saying the Ultimate Warrior was a buttpirate.
Posted By: dyno3k (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:23 PM
Now hold on a datgum minute! Warrior, Steroids? She's lying. Everyone knows it was the show strings on his arm that made him huge.
Posted By: Capt Oats (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:25 PM
Diana Hart-Smith wrote would could best be described as a fictional account of a girl growing up in and marrying into the wrestling business, based on a few elements of truth.
Posted By: jeff (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:34 PM
The Warriors a pole smoker? Say it ain't so Joe!
Posted By: The Coach (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:40 PM
Yeah, but Diana Hart got it taken off of book shelves...so maybe she's referring to the first time that it might not get taken off of shelves. Or she just might be ignorant.
Posted By: Crazy8 (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:52 PM
"who had led a secretive double life that filled his marriage with turmoil and doubts about his fidelity, and even his sexuality" Is she claiming the Warrior who has said some pretty offensive things about gay people might actually have had gay relationships?
Posted By: Webhead518 (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 04:59 PM
QUEERING DON'T MAKE THE WORLD WORK!
Posted By: Snort (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:12 PM
Now this sounds like a better read than any one of Warrior Warrior's diatribes...
Posted By: Toddo (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:13 PM
Hmm ROH in Edison. Bout 4 mins away from my house. I mite have to check this out.
Posted By: Carmz (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:38 PM
Buddy Rose claims that Warrior used to bodybuild in Georgia and since it didn't pay well and he hadn't got into wrestling yet, Warrior would strip for wealthy gay business-men. He said Warrior wasn't gay, but did get naked for gay men's pleasure.
Posted By: Portland Wrestling (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:44 PM
Missy Hyatt said that Warrior was a stripper for guys and that he was gay. Now, it was Missy, but still....
Posted By: warriorsgay (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:47 PM
straight to the bargin book bin along with the book Jose Conseco's wife wrote
Posted By: Adrian (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 05:52 PM
DON'T TELL ME! A hardcore conservative who is vehemently against gay rights might be a secret HOMOSEXUAL?
Wait a minute, I've only heard this story like a THOUSAND times in the past couple years.
Posted By: Guy Who Reads the News Guy (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 06:26 PM
I hope the forward is written by The Iron Sheik
Posted By: Guest#5445 (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 09:16 PM
DON'T TELL ME! A hardcore conservative who is vehemently against gay rights might be a secret HOMOSEXUAL?
Wait a minute, I've only heard this story like a THOUSAND times in the past couple years.
Posted By: Guy Who Reads the News Guy (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 06:26 PM
LIBERAL FAG!
Posted By: Hilary Cunton (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 09:18 PM
"hah she's saying the Ultimate Warrior was a buttpirate."
Does that really surprise anybody?
Posted By: Sarcastro (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 11:00 PM
"Buddy Rose claims that Warrior used to bodybuild in Georgia and since it didn't pay well and he hadn't got into wrestling yet, Warrior would strip for wealthy gay business-men. He said Warrior wasn't gay, but did get naked for gay men's pleasure.
Posted By: Portland Wrestling (Guest) "
Which would not make him gay, but a bitch. Or just plain a slut.
Posted By: Guest#6976 (Guest) on October 08, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Martha Hart wrote a rather touching book that focused on being married to a wrestler...
Posted By: Mark (Guest) on October 09, 2008 at 06:16 AM
I'll reserve my opinion on whether Warrior is a 'buttpirate' until I hear it from a reputable source.
So far it's just been a bunch of degenerates acting on bitterness & jealousy.
Posted By: Jay (Guest) on October 09, 2008 at 07:31 AM
Steroids, Painkillers, and Homosexuality, huh?
Methought he doth'd protested too much . . .
Posted By: McLovin (Registered) on October 09, 2008 at 12:13 PM
ah you can TOTALLY tell his homophobia is from denial of his own homosexuality.
someone-anyone let alone his ex-wife saying he's gay leaves me completely unsurprised to the core
Posted By: the16th6toothson (Guest) on October 10, 2008 at 09:08 AM
