5 Most Traumatic WWE Moments Of The Early 90's

#1 The Ultimate Warrior Gets Locked In An Airtight Casket

Undertaker puts Warrior in the casket

Death and taxes. Those are the only two things one can be assured of in life. Both were represented in WWE. Taxes were covered by Irwin R. Schyster, but death was Undertaker's realm.

The Ultimate Warrior would make a grave mistake by appearing on Paul Bearer's Funeral Parlor in 1991.

Bearer revealed a custom made casket featuring Warrior's logo. Warrior's attention was so hyper-focused on Bearer and his enticements that he didn't notice The Undertaker sneaking out of another casket behind him.

As expected, The Undertaker attacked Warrior, incapacitating him with a stiff blow from the steel urn. What happened next is the single most traumatic WWE moment of my entire childhood.

The Undertaker slammed Warrior into the casket and with Bearer's assistance, locked it using special funeral home tools. I was terrified. We all were. The announce team didn't help matters.

A solemn Roddy Piper questioned, "How's he gonna breathe in there?" The Undertaker and Paul Bearer then simply left, leaving the Warrior alone and locked in the darkness of the airtight casket. They took the tools with them.

Officials attempted to pry Warrior from his fate, but they lacked the special instruments required to open the locked casket. The Warrior's fate was sealed in the confines of that airtight casket.

The officials found a crowbar and with all their might attempted to pry the casket open, but their efforts were fruitless. The situation was dire and things looked grave. Piper, ever the calm one, screamed, "Get him out of there."

The anxiety medication companies love this stuff. McMahon reiterated, "He has no air." Officials nervously attempted to drill air holes to get some air into the casket, as other members of the crew hammered away with whatever tools they could find.

The combined noises of the clanging and the announcers screaming were terrifying enough, but when they finally opened the casket, Warrior lay motionless. Piper narrated, "He tried to claw his way out." He tried.

The lifted lid revealed that The Ultimate Warrior was nonresponsive. He was dead on Saturday morning television.

With millions of children watching, officials tried to perform something that looked like CPR, but nothing seemed to work. Piper confirmed what we all already knew in our hearts, "He's stopped breathing." Officials began desperately pushing on Warrior's chest in a last ditch effort to get his heart pumping on its own again.

As the world waited in eager anticipation and children were praying (and crying) like never before, Warrior began coughing and more importantly breathing. All in all, Warrior was in the airtight casket for four minutes, but it seemed like hours. What was his condition? Would he ever be able to wrestle again? Would he live? We were forced to wait another week for an update.