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The rock and wrestling connection: The Ultimate Warrior versus Phil Collins

The Warrior has always been described as intolerant, and a very difficult man to work with, but I actually had quite a pleasant encounter with him. He was working the Slim Jim hospitality room at some c-store convention in the early 90s, and was the only guy in the room when I wandered in. I was kind of an asshole, because I really didn't want to force conversation with some wrestling knothead, so I wandered to the bar and struck up a conversation with the bartender instead, and ignored the Warrior completely. He was gracious enough to ignore my snub, wandered over to the bar politely, and introduced himself in a quiet businesslike voice as Jim whatever his last name was, and we had a nice long talk about sports and women. Never mentioned wrestling once, although I did ask him how much time he spent in the gym, because I couldn't believe the shoulders on the guy. (I guess I was right to be skeptical about his training methods, based upon the steroid controversy that dogged him for years thereafter.)