WWE wrestler dies

[sadloserkid]

Curt Henning, or Mr. Perfect was easily the physical equal of Shawn Michaels and Bret Hart.Neither of them were 'big men'. As a sport, wrestling is decided by marketability. If you sell, you win belts.Hart & Michaels were just bigger box office than Henning I think.

You confuse my intended point joeSoap... Curt Hennig's prime years never saw him rise above Intercontinental Champion because he peaked before the Hart/Michaels era when the whole federation was geared around Hulk Hogan and whatever slow, ponderous hulk was jobbing to him at any given time (Andre The Giant, Zues, Sid Justice/Vicious, even early Undertaker etc). Only Randy Savage offered anything different at the time, The Ultimate Warrior came and went at bewildering speed and petty jealousy on Hogan's part limited his success anyway. In this market, Mr.Perfect, along with top drawer stars like Kerry Von Erich and Rick Steamboat were left to squabble for leftovers in the midcard. Any of those men would be a megastar today, putting the likes of John Cena to shame.

[sadloserkid]

It seems that Benoit is leaving the WWE. He's had an offer from TNA, the crowd that Christian, Raven and quitea few others semm to have gone to. Apparently they wrestle in a six sided ring??

Raven I should add was criminally underused by the WWE...

[Shelsman]

Most of these deaths ( 'heart failure' ) probably down to the use of steroids.

Do you remember when Randy Savage jumped off the corner post with the adjudicator's bell and crushed a fella's windpipe ( Jake the Snake? ) -was that real or what?

[sadloserkid]

Do you remember when Randy Savage jumped off the corner post with the adjudicator's bell and crushed a fella's windpipe ( Jake the Snake? )

No... but I'm absolutely fascinated. Jake 'The Snake' Roberts really fell from grace actually, chronic drug addiction and back child support payments running to six figures the last I heard!

[joeSoap]

No... but I'm absolutely fascinated. Jake 'The Snake' Roberts really fell from grace actually, chronic drug addiction and back child support payments running to six figures the last I heard!

Last seen offering wrestling lessons in Portsmouth of all places...maybe to the footballers..sad really

[Duffer]

Remember Ravishing Rick Rude he used to kiss the girls out of the audience he became a senator or something to some town bit like arnie.

[Duffer]

No punctuation at all in that post.
I'm prepared for the onslaught bring it on

[tetsujin1979]

Ted "Million Dollar Man" DiBiase is now an tv evangelist!

Apparently they wrestle in a six sided ring??

Yeah, they do use the 6-sided ring. TNA !MPACT! is on Eurosport now. The Road Dogg is wrestling there are the Outlaw, and Billy Gunn is wrestling there too, can't think of his name. The promotion is owned by Jeff Jarrett and his father, it was originally PPV-only, but now they have a weekly show in Spike TV in the states

[Armando]

Remember Ravishing Rick Rude he used to kiss the girls out of the audience he became a senator or something to some town bit like arnie.

Sadly, I'm pretty sure he passed away too, a couple of years ago.

[SaucyJack]

Remember Ravishing Rick Rude he used to kiss the girls out of the audience he became a senator or something to some town bit like arnie.

yeah, he's the senator of Deadville.

[sadloserkid]

Last seen offering wrestling lessons in Portsmouth of all places...maybe to the footballers..sad really

Jake Roberts and Jim Neidhart were both booked to appear at a wrestling show in Limerick in the last coupla years actually. I have no idea if they actually came through and turned up though.

[Stevo Da Gull]

Shocked when I heard about it. Didn't actually believe it when I heard but when I saw it all over the web I was like`holy sh*t`, he was just one of those guy's that you expected to be seeing around for a long time to come giving you plenty to remember along the way Reminds you of how precious life is (that is the single most soppy thing I've ever said there )

RIP

[Poor Student]

From WWE.com:

Vickie Guerrero speaks on Eddie's autopsy report
Nov. 15, 2005

After the untimely passing of Eddie Guerrero, WWE and the entire sports-entertainment community is still reeling from the devastating loss of a champion. The initial autopsy reports on Guerrero have come in. WWE.com spoke with Eddie’s widow, Vickie Guerrero, earlier today.

“It was heart failure. It was from his past – the drinking and the drug abuse. They found signs of heart disease. She (the examiner) said that the blood vessels were very worn and narrow, and that just showed all the abuse from the scheduling of work and his past. And Eddie just worked out like crazy all the time. It made his heart grow bigger and work harder and the vessels were getting smaller, and that’s what caused the heart failure. He went into a deep sleep.

As soon as they saw his heart, they saw the lining of his heart already had the heart disease. There was no trauma, and Eddie hadn’t hurt himself in any way. It answered a lot of questions. I knew Eddie wasn’t feeling very good for the last week. He was home and kept saying he wasn’t feeling good and we thought it was just “road tired.” So we thought he just had to rest. It answered a lot of my questions, too, because he was just so exhausted. She said it was normal because the heart was working so hard.

When he didn’t call me last night and the night before I knew it was for real, because he would call me every night. I miss his phone calls. I cried through the whole thing (last night).

I loved his laugh. His laugh was the best.

We just celebrated his four-year sobriety last Thursday. We just thought we had life by the handful. We thought we had it all figured out. He worked so hard to make a better life for us.

I’m just overwhelmed by how people are coming out. It’s touched my heart a lot.

Everybody was just in awe last night in how beautifully everything was put together.

All my life was wrestling. All he did was take care of them and live for that. And I don’t know what to do now.”

Sad stuff. Between his past troubles and his current work load his body simply caved in. I just saw the tribute edition of Raw, touching stuff. He seemed to have an infectous personality and was loved by many of his compatriots. It's a bit surreal to think he is dead. Batista said something a bit disturbing in his tribute to him like: "Man when he stepped through that curtain he would just smile as if all his pain had gone away. He was in a lot of pain." Sounds like he had absolutely knackered himself.

[paul_oshea]

surely though, these wrestlers should be getting full check ups, on things like this. i mean maybe there was nothing that could be done in this even if he had a check up. but im just suprised that they dont go through rigorous check ups.

[joeSoap]

surely though, these wrestlers should be getting full check ups, on things like this. i mean maybe there was nothing that could be done in this even if he had a check up. but im just suprised that they dont go through rigorous check ups.

I think he meant mental pain more than physical. The poor fella had a tough time fighting addictions. Addictions never go away...ever. He was constantly at war with his, it seems....

[paul_oshea]

all of them seem to have been addicted to something though???

thats not what i meant though, i meant how come none of them have 3 monthly or so rigorous check ups, to check their physical state.

[tetsujin1979]

McMahon was in court in the 80's for selling steroids. Think he was acquitted, but Hogan (among others) were forced to admit that they had taken steroids. It's part of the "sport" to be big and muscular, without cutting down on the speed element, that's bound to take some toll on your heart, steroids or not.

[joeSoap]

Interesting article

[nismo]

R.i.p.

[sadloserkid]

Interesting article

Vince is a snake. The Montreal Screw Job is just the best known of the stories.