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Jake "slain" (...or at least, he was one of the main causes of the such) The Warrior, and after that we only witnessed the latter's disembodied spirit crying for vengeance.

As part of what would be a high-profile feud early on August and in what would become their SummerSlam '91 feud, Warrior asked The Snake to "enlight him" on how to take on The Undertaker. Jake agreed under the condition Warrior had to embrace "The Dark Side". To do so, Jake put Warrior into a set of 3 increasingly disturbing tests, being to cross a dark path carpeted with living venomous snakes the last one... a test Warrior couldn't complete, later competing in a Tag Team with The Hulkster for not to be seen again in TV for a quite sizable ammount of timenote .

  • In Real Life, Warrior went into a paying dispute with Vince McMahon, later to be fired within a year along The British Bulldog from WWF in the middle of the steroids scandal's craze, then he went to work in Germany's World Wrestling Superstars the whole '93 and having a fistful of indie matches in the States in '95. By then, a baseless rumor reached the IWC claiming to have proof that Warrior had "kicked the bucket" and was promptly replaced by a certain "Steve DiSalvo" or by Rick Wilson A.K.A. "The Renegade".

  • So in Kayfabe, Warrior simply vanished until early '96 for a really short-lived returnnote  (Either him or one of his "replacements"). Along came 1998, we witnessed Warrior on WCW trying to create a stable meant to destroy the nWo (The appopiatedly named "One Warrior Nation"/OwN), BUT acting more as a supernatural being, performing such feats as manifesting himself incased within a mirror, turning into fog or vanishing at will... in a sense, what Jake taught him about Defeating the Undefeatable:
    "...there you fought for your life, that was the mistake, you fought it! You got to learn, The Undertaker's way brother is the Dark Side... The Snake's side if you can understand.<—>...if you're gonna get to heaven you're gonna go through hell!"

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