Ringside Insanity!: A history of The Warrior's legal battles with WWE
Posted by TolerancE on 09/26/2008
In 1993, Jim Hellwig had his name legally changed to Warrior in order to retain the legal rights to use the name outside of the WWF. The one-word name appears on all legal documents pertaining to Warrior, and his children carry the Warrior name as their legal surname. The ultimatewarrior.com domain is registered to "Mister Warrior."
Warrior and the WWF engaged in a series of lawsuits and legal actions in 1996 and 1997, culminating in a court ruling that Warrior was legally entitled to use the gimmick, costuming, face paint designs, and mannerisms of the "Warrior" character.
To counter the negative portrayal of his character by WWE, Warrior began producing his own DVD documentary (buzzmediaproductions.com) and announced that he would release a lot of the official court documents with Titan Sports/WWE to show what he has termed the ultimate truth. However, Warrior later filed suit against the filmmaker he hired to make his documentary, Andrew Wright, claiming that the documentary Wright made was "negative, not positive" and that Wright had threatened to release a very negative documentary unless he was paid more money.
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