The Ultimate Warrior RIP
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Over the years, those days with Ricky Gleaton and his dad Mortimo in front of their television in Perry South Carolina during my youth having long gone by I grew apart beginning with the various groups seeking membership in the Actor's Guild.
This being said, in my heyday I would sit in front of that teevee and hoot and holler with Mortimo and Ricky fully engrossed in the show and nothing will replace the fondness in my memory for those days, those guys, and the entirety of it all.
It's a sadder, colder world now with Mortimo and Lula Bell having gone their separate ways and even Ricky went his after parting with Nancy.
One of those characters I never fully engaged due to his relative late arrival viz a viz my viewership was The Ultimate Warrior, aka Dingo Warrior and simply The Warrior having seen primarily clips and promotional spots here and there during breaks from my activities of daily living while engaged as an instructor in the stupid state technical college system.
He was born James Brian Hellwig and was the consumate showman and I loved the rough and tumble mouthy braggadocio and how they incensed the crowd into various stages of uproar.
The Ultimate Warrior died on April 8, 2014, at the age of 54 in Scottsdale, Arizona while walking to his car with his wife.
His final diagnosis was the lifestyle disease atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease which is cause by plaque build up secondary to calcium adhering to the muscular walls of the arterial vessels.
All this being said he was an impressive man who attained the pinnicle of his career several times in the form of championships and what a sad way to go for such a magnificent physical specimen.