He looked absolutely awful on Raw. The cameras kept cutting away from him when he tried to shake the ropes and he was very much blown up and out of breath from merely speaking.
It's absolutely heartbreaking for his family who seemed so young and normal and whom he seemed to love so, so much during his Hall Of Fame speech but those snaps of him over the weekend are what's really getting to me. Vince's age is finally starting to really break him down into a very humble looking old man enjoying the empire he has built and Warrior's smile is absolutely lens shattering in all of those pictures. You can't fake that. Nobody smiles like that for money or mere preservation of a legacy.
He said some crazy, stupid stuff in his haphazard dabbling in the political arena and he wasn't exactly the full bob but he was a true icon of the eighties and there is a whole generation of grown men in their thirties and forties who ran around the house with colored shoelaces tied to their arms finding out they were allergic to face paint as they trashed around on mum's bed.
Here is a touching retrospect from a brilliant writer over at a another forum I frequent :
http://franticplanet.wordpress.com/2...ior-1959-2014/
Rest In Peace.