11 Wrestling Stars We Never Thought Vince McMahon Would Make Up With 

#7. The Ultimate Warrior

The Ultimate Warrior made amends with WWE toward the end of his life.

One of the cardinal rules of working with Vince McMahon is to never hold him up for money. There’s a long history of wrestlers making that mistake and winding up blacklisted for years to follow, if not their entire careers. By a variety of accounts, that’s just what Warrior did at SummerSlam 1991 before working a tag team main event alongside Hulk Hogan.

McMahon being who he is, he followed the money and let Warrior back into the fold in 1992 and again in 1996. Each time, the general consensus is that Warrior was difficult to work with and unpopular with the boys, even when he remained a star to fans.

It seemed WWE was ready to cut ties permanently from Warrior when the company released its Self-Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior DVD, embarrassing with a variety of wrestlers and backstage workers speaking poorly about him, and more contemporary stars doing impressions of him. In the most unlikely turn of all, however, McMahon and Warrior ultimately made up to get Warrior in the Hall of Fame. It turned out that the reconciliation didn’t happen a moment too soon—Warrior tragically less than a week after his induction.