***** First, I hope anyone in the US who celebrated our Independence Day last week had a fun time! 🍔🌭🎇🎆🧨 ~~~ I do have to add this though. While we were in the parking lot waiting for fireworks to begin, I saw this man in front of us by his car. When he turned around, he had on an Ultimate Warrior shirt!!! It was UW’s mask like a flag that I know he had back then. Couldn’t tell if there were any words on it, but I so wanted to go up to him and say something! I did not but how cool to see…Been forever it seems since I have noticed anything like that!!! ❤️🤍💙🇺🇸
Now, I will begin…. Yes, I know. No need to scroll down, see this week’s photo and scold me. Fans of Ultimate Warrior will know what I’m referencing. In almost 9 years, I have NEVER and didn’t want to use much pertaining to that Superstars “Funeral Parlour” segment. Kinda sad stuff too 💔 besides the shocking… *** Today, though~ it appears because a funny Kathy story is back! I have done wrestling, the spiritual, and a little more ol’ WWF lately, but these specific details of that time have not been shared. At least I don’t think they have. 🤔 I do know a few tidbits weren’t in the past so let’s “bury” ourselves into this topic, ha ha!
Maybe you loyal readers will recall me saying how I would go get a sledgehammer and free Warrior out of that casket. Here’s a question before I begin. If any of you wrestling fans could’ve been in a certain storyline, changed an outcome, or written an angle differently, what timeframe would you choose? You can see where I’m going on this but there were others and not all involved UW. Most, admittedly~~~ yes but I rooted for the good guys so many matches or scenarios would favor them. Of course I know it can’t be that way all the time but come on fans, I bet you talked about plenty back in the day or still are.
Just keep that in mind as I share this after cracking myself up with the memory. 🤭 I will mention a sledgehammer just a moment with 2 connectors. I remembered the 1986 sitcom by that name about a crazy cop who thought of his gun as his BFF. My brother loved that show just like the WWF… Another one is the 1986 (same year) song by Peter Gabriel. You can look them both up as I did to refresh my flashbacks. Cue laughter with the song! I do look up lyrics and music videos to familiarize myself once again. That song is still played on the radio but the opening video sequence?! No MTV for me then so I never saw it when released. Well, I didn’t totally know what the song was about at the age of 14 but later on certainly did. Do you know the video? I KNOW you’ll look it up after reading. I always thought of a sledgehammer to open that casket, but NO way did that connect to the song. NO, NO, NO~~~ but it is totally funny how in 1991 when I was almost 19, and that segment happened., Ah, memories… 😳 Let’s start the story!
You might not think it would be quite comical, considering the subject matter and my feelings about all that back then. Just follow along and you’ll be laughing as well. I sure want you to! 😂 I needed to laugh after a few days when seeing all that in order to blink again. Also, my insides had to stop saying : “ I HATE Vince!” all day. Yes, I always blamed him for everything even though the guys had to agree…mostly.
OK, so when UW was in that casket, I was (naturally) backstage as I knew him and came to events. This is MY scenario, remember! He would tell me how things would get lined up, match outcomes, and all that so I always knew ahead of time, even for that Funeral Parlour. I wasn’t liking this concept but it was business and I had to accept that. Vince was announcing with Randy and Hot Rod ( who kept me sane with their comments…) so I was in the back with some other wrestlers just watching it unfold. I BROKE and after seeing all those guys out there with the hammers, chisels, drills,🔨⚒️⛏️ , and what nots, I couldn’t stand it any longer. I bolted out of the back and found a sledgehammer. Why would they have one around? 🫨 I ran past the wrestlers as they stared in disbelief while thinking how Vince would explain this to fans on the air! He’d get word through his earpiece but decided to just go with it. I know the shows were taped, but this would not be edited out. They couldn’t go to a commercial, right? I’m laughing even now. 😆 I see those useless men trying to open the casket and pounded my sledgehammer into the side!
I can only imagine UW swearing inside the ⚰️ saying: “ What the F is she doing?” He still had to play his role like you saw possibly on TV all the while with the men trying to pull me away. Needless to say, I got it OPEN as Vince is shouting : “ Who is this woman and where did she come from?” I can hear his voice in my head… He had his role to play too. How about the aftermath? More funnies from me as I can picture all 3 of us~~~ Vince, Warrior, and myself sitting at a table later on just staring. Warrior has his arms crossed vowing to never tell me anything again or maybe banning me from being there. He might’ve laughed though.., I would not have wanted to be around after the casket which brought snakes 🐍 and then voodoo the following year.
Vince had to make some kind of announcement or work me into the storyline somehow since I saved Warrior. Fans loved it though, but it begged several questions. All UW’s “mystique” would be unveiled just a little as now a woman is involved., Hmmm, what to do? No real ending as it could go on for a bit, but I still laugh at it all today. Yeah, yeah, I KNOW what you’re thinking and yes, that part of me comes out to play as I did rescue Warrior after being “oxygen deprived” for many minutes! You can take that anyway you wish but at least my sledgehammer did the job and I got great ratings for the show! 😉
P.S. Now, you can go look up those sledgehammer references! 📺🎼
P.P.S. No true idea on how the story came to me. Scenarios maybe? When I was teaching in the fall of ‘91, kids were mentioning WWF but UW was gone then? 🤷🏻♀️
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