The WWE honored Jim "The Ultimate Warrior" Hellwig on last Monday's RAW with a tribute video montage and a 10-bell salute while also showing Warrior specials during Warrior Week on the WWE Network, and Bob "Hardcore" Holly said that he believed the WWE should honor every former wrestler that dies, not just the ones that made them the most money.
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Holly spoke to Ross Williams, co-writer of his book The Hardcore Truth: The Bob Holly Story, and shared his thoughts and condolences about The Warrior while also wondering why the WWE doesn't honor other wrestlers, such as Viscera who recently passed, in the same manner.
"It's great to see WWE do a tribute to Warrior but I question why they only do that for certain people, only people who've made that company tons of money," Holly told Williams. "It's like, in other words, his life is more valuable than a mid-carder's life."
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Holly said that even though Warrior was a WWE legend and Hall of Famer, he felt that Viscera and other guys that sacrifice themselves for the company should be acknowledged in the same light.
"What pi--es me off is that these guys that don't get acknowledged when they pass, they sacrifice for that company, they sacrifice their body, they sacrifice their family, they sacrifice so much to work with WWE and for WWE to not acknowledge people but acknowledge Warrior, that's a travesty to me," he said. "It's wrong. They're saying Warrior is more important than Viscera. Every human life is just as important as the other. What makes Warrior's life more valuable than Viscera?"
He added: "[It should be] for whoever worked for WWE because you do make a huge sacrifice. It should be acknowledged. What they did for Warrior, they should do that for everybody that worked for the company and made sacrifices."
Holly then discussed meeting Warrior, who died unexpectedly on April 8 from complications stemming from heart disease, just three days after being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, two days from appearing at WrestleMania XXX and one day after his first appearance on Monday Night RAW in 18 years.
"He was a very pleasant man - VERY charismatic and intense! That man could sell out an arena! I feel real bad for his family, his wife and children - it's a great shame he died so young."
Holly also discussed Brock Lesnar ending The Undertaker's WrestleMania streak and the up-and-coming Superstars in the WWE. The full interview can be read here.
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