WWE Hall of Famer The Ultimate Warrior, aka James Hellwig, dies at age 54 just hours after 'Monday Night Raw' appearance

The Ultimate Warrior, born James Hellwig, was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on Saturday. After years of bad blood and tension between himself, Hulk Hogan and the WWE as a whole, all sides buried the hatchet and the Warrior took his place among other Legends.

At WrestleMania 30 on Sunday, Warrior got his own entrance and joined his fellow Hall of Famers on stage to celebrate briefly with the fans. And then, after nearly two decades, the Ultimate Warrior returned to Monday Night Raw to cut a promo in front of the fans. He thanked them for being the ones who made him who he is.

And on Tuesday, the Ultimate Warrior passed away at age 54 in Scottsdale, Arizona.

The official cause of death has not been revealed, but the Scottsdale Police Department released a statement that Hellwig and his wife were walking to their car at the Gainy Suites Hotel when he collapsed. Scottsdale Fire transported him to a local hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead shortly after his arrival. The statement only says "it appears as though a catastrophic medical condition caused his death."

Some reports have indicated Hellwig clutched his chest as though he were having a heart attack, though this has not been confirmed.

The Ultimate Warrior's heyday was before my time. I was only two years old when he beat Hulk Hogan for the WWF Championship in the main event of WrestleMania 6. But the man captured the imaginations of fans in a way that few wrestlers ever could.

Some enterprising individual posted this video on YouTube that splices together Warrior's...well, let's call them what they were...insane promos. Just listen to some of the language he used in these backstage segments:

"Should I jump off the tallest building in the world?! Should I lay on the lawn and let them run over me with lawn mowers?! Should I go to Africa and let them trample me with raging elephants?!"

"Load the spaceship with the rocket fuel!"

And that doesn't even contain his entire famous promo on Hulk Hogan, in which he told the Hulkster to "take the two pilots that have already made the sacrifice" and put his plane into a nosedive.

That's how we should remember the Ultimate Warrior: for the look in his eyes when he screamed at the camera, the way he would shake the ropes during his entrance and the snorts he would make as though he were a jungle beast.

And, thankfully, that's how many of the WWE family members seem to have decided to remember him, too. Hulk Hogan, who very publicly expressed his disdain for the Warrior for several years, tweeted the following on Wednesday:

We talked,both forgave each other,we hugged ,we shook hands as we told each other I love you,I am so sad,God bless his beautiful family HH

— Hulk Hogan (@HulkHogan) April 9, 2014

There's now a photo of Vince McMahon and the Ultimate Warrior side-by-side from this weekend's festivities. Any bad blood seems to have been washed away, which makes his passing all the more tragic. Just as the wounds healed, Warrior departed for Parts Unknown.

I'll close this article with Ultimate Warrior's promo from this week's Raw, because the man himself did a better job of saying goodbye than I ever could.

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