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Hmmmm that didn't look like too many body slams.
Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erich: February 18, 1993--Committed suicide.
Dino Bravo: March 11, 1993--Died of gunshot wounds in his living room.
Joey Marella (WWF Referee/Gorilla Monsoon's Son): July 4, 1994--Died in motorcycle accident.
Jerry "Crusher" Blackwell--January 22, 1995--Died of complications from injuries sustained in a road accident.
Big John Studd: March 20, 1995--Died of liver cancer.
Ray Stevens--May 3, 1996--Died of heart failure.
Murdoch--June 14, 1996--Died of heart failure.
Sapphire: September 10, 1996--Died from a heart attack.
Dr. Bill Miller--March 24, 1997--Died of heart failure.
Stan Stasiak: June 12, 1997--Died from heart failure.
"Bulldog" Brower--September 15, 1997--Died of heart failure.
Brian Pillman: October 5, 1997--Died from arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Bobo Brazil: January 20, 1998--Died from complications from a stroke.
Louie olli: February 15, 1998--Died from arteriosclerotic heart disease caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy syndrome.
Junk Yard Dog: June 2, 1998--Died in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel.
Sky Low Low [famous midget wrestler]: November 9, 1998--heart failure.
January 31, 1999--Died of colon cancer.
Rick Williams [Renegade in WCW]: February 23, 1999--Died from suicide.
Ravishing Rick Rude: April 20, 1999--Died from heart attack.
Owen Hart: May 23, 1999--Died from 50 foot fall from ceiling to ring.
Brian Hildebrand (WCW Referee Mark Curtis): September 8, 1999--Died after a two year battle with stomach cancer.
Gorilla Monsoon: October 5, 1999--Died from a heart attack.
Bobby Dun , Jr: January 24, 2000--Drug overdose.
Gordon Solie: July 27, 2000--Died from cancer.
Toru Tanaka: August 22, 2000--Died from a heart attack.
Yokozuna: October 22, 2000--Died from a heart attack.
Johnny Valentine: April 24, 2001--Natural Causes.
Tex McKenzie--May 31, 2001--Died of an aortic aneurysm.
Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy: July 16, 2001--Blood clot in the heart.
Rhonda Singh: August 2, 2001--Drug Overdose which caused a Heart Attack
Blaise Alexander (WCW race car driver): October 4, 2001--Complications from a head injury received in a car race.
"Gentleman" Chris Adams: October 7, 2001--Shot to death.
Helen Hart: November 4, 2001--Complications from a seizure.
Russ Haas: December 15, 2001--Heart Attack.
Wahoo McDaniels: April 18, 2002--Died from complications from renal failure and diabetes.
Lou Thesz: April 28, 2002--Died from natural causes after heart surgery earlier in the year.
Big Dudley: May 16, 2002--Kidney failure
"The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith: May 18, 2002--Died from a heart attack.
Rocco Rock of Public Enemy: September 21, 2002--Heart Attack.
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig: February 10, 2003--acute cocaine intoxication.
Miss Elizabeth: May 1, 2003--Died from a combination of alcohol and painkillers.
"Classy" Freddie Blassie: June 2, 2003--Unknown
Stu Hart: October 16, 2003--Natural Causes
Hawk [Michael Hegstrand]-- October 19, 2003--Heart Attack
Crash Holly--November 6, 2003--Drug overdose
Larry "Moondog Spot" Booker--November 29, 2003--Collapsed in the ring
Malice/The Wall [Jerry Tuite]--December 6, 2003--acute heart attack
Jack Tunney--January 24, 2004--Heart attack
Hercules--March 6, 2004--Died in his sleep.
James Dudley--Early June 1, 2004--Died of natural causes.
Ray "Big Bossman" Traylor--September 22, 2004--Heart failure.
Chris Candido--April 28, 2005--Blood clot and complications due to surgery.
Lord Alfred Hayes--July 21, 2005--Complications from a series of strokes.
Moondog King [Ed "Sailor" White]--August 26, 2005--Unknown
Eddie Guerrero--November 13, 2005--Enlarged Heart due to years of drug use.
Johnny Grunge of Public Enemy--February 16, 2006--Unknown at this time.
John Tenta [Earthquake]--June 7, 2006--bladder cancer.
Bam Bam Bigelow [Scott Bigelow]--January 19, 2007--Drugs.
Mike Awesome--February 17, 2007--Apparent Suicide.
Bad News Brown--March 6, 2007--Heart Attack
"Big Cat" Ernie Ladd--March 10, 2007--Cancer
"Sensational" Sherri (Martel)--June 15, 2007--Unknown at this time
Nancy "Women" (Sullivan) Benoit--June 25, 2007--Strangulation. Died at home with Chris Benoit and their son Daniel (Suffocation).
Chris Benoit--June 25, 2007--Suicide by Hanging
Hmmmm that didn't look like too many body slams.
Steve Austin, Shawn Michaels, Chris Benoit, Sabu, DRoz, Kurt Angle
That's 6 broken necks or broken backs I ca think of right off the bat in the wrestling ring just in the last 12 years or so, not including the guy who died that I mentioned earlier...compare that with the pro sports.
You got Mike Utley...the Arena football player who died...Darryl Stingley...who else?
This makes me so sick!!!
That list includes some guys that died in their 60's and 70's like Gorilla Monsoon...
Seriously...are you really convinced you are right?
I mean I just listed a guy that died in the ring that isn't on your list...you want more?
Will you admit you are wrong?
Or will you just post the same list that includes people dying of heart attacks in their 70's as some kind of evidence they are all drug addicts?
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Originally Posted by kris
Wrestlers don't die that young because they slam on the mat 300 times a year.
Wrong...they do die because of that, in fact they sometiimes die because of one slam gone wrong with far more regularity than any pro-sport.
One, what's up with that line? 2, you named one guy who supposedly died from a slam and then some with broken bones. Where is the never ending list of deaths from slams?
You pick 1 old guy and ask me to admit I'm wrong. Look at the evidence. There are plenty of guys to choose from that weren't that old. Come on, you need to take the Bret Hart glasses off and wake up.
I think they would just like to see more instances of wrestling-related deaths.
You can paint stripes on a donkey but that doesn't make him a zebra.
I thought Utley played for the Lions and is still alive? Maybe I'm thinking of someone else...
Don't forget to mention Buff Bagwell, who almost died in the ring from a broken neck on live tv during a WCW Nitro episode when it was on...
Dennis Byrd, Reggie Brown, Michael Irvin, Mike Alstott, John Mobley, Sterling Sharpe, Priest Holmes, Rich Gannon, etc.
EDIT: You threw me off by using Utley and Stingley, neither of whom died on the field. All the above players had serious neck injuries and most chose retirement instead of risking paralysis, with Alsott being the exception.
Last edited by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927; 06-27-2007 at 03:38 PM.
http://www.garywill.com/wrestling/decwres.htm
Count the asterisk...
57 deaths in ring or right after the match...that doesn't include the ones that died in the hospital several days after...from injuries sustaiend in the match...
Like Chris Candido..in 2003.
It also doesn't include some of the guys that wrestled in minor feds....like Dan Quirk.
Go ahead...post the combined total of mlb, nba, nfl, arena and the ncaa...
You'll be lucky if you can come up with 10.
Edit: and most of them will be baseball players struck by lightning.
Similar totals in broken necks and parapaleigics...
Wrestlers wrestle every night...
Next time there is an Indy show in SA...you should go to it, and ask a wrester to just toss you into the ropes gently...the most routine move they do in a match...you'll have bruises for the rest of the week.
If you are feeling really brave tell him that being body slammed isn't jack ...then ask him to give you a typical body slam...see if you think it's no biggie.
Wrestlers wrestle every night. Football players play football once a week, in pads. Boxers Box at most a couple of times per month.
There is not a more physically destructive field of athletics than wrestling..except maybe boxing....
And a lot of these heart attacks are due to the drugs they take to deal with the cracked vertabrae etc. they sustained during their careers.
Theres only one Hulk Hogan who got by without doing in the ring...most of them destroyed their bodies to earn a living....at a far more destructive pace than the NFL. That's the main reason they become drug addicts.
Last edited by whottt; 06-27-2007 at 03:49 PM.
Does that 57 include the deaths in 1937 and 1911, et.al.?
Sure...and feel free to include the totals from the NCAA, NFL, NHL and MLB going back as far as you can...
If you can find 10 of them, combined, I'll be impressed.
Go ahead...prove to me how stupid you are in your next post...by failing to admit the obvious.
You sent me a link where there's hundreds of names and 1 out of every 30 (if that) has an asterick that indicates they died in the ring.
I'm not about to count everyone that has or hasn't. Steroids and cocaine kill in wrestling - not slams.
As for whether they take a beating, I'll conceed to you they take more punishment than I thought. Whether it's worse than football, I still say no way. Other sports - baseball how are you going to take a beating really? nba - no one is trying to jump off a top turnbuckle on to a guy 12 feet below. I never said those. I said football. And football takes more of a beating.
I do remember Sid Justice's video of snapping his leg though - pretty nasty. But football, guys snap their leg everyday.
wait... Chris Candido died?!?!? WTF
wow....
Michael Irvin's condition was genetic...
I wasn't listing guys that died in the ring or on the field in that particular post...merely major neck of back injuries sustained during a match or game.EDIT: You threw me off by using Utley and Stingley, neither of whom died on the field. All the above players had serious neck injuries and most chose retirement instead of risking paralysis, with Alsott being the exception.
And no...player X mysteriously developing herniated disks doesn't count...
I am talking about speciffic injuries than can be pinpointed at the exact same moment they occurred...
In the case of Steve Austin, when Owen Hart botched a pile driver and broke his neck, in the case of Chris Benoit, when Steve Austin botched throwing him into a table, in the case of Sabu, when Chris Benoit botched a leg toss, in the case of Droz, when D-Lo Brown botched a running power slam...when the UnderTaker botched a slam on Shawn Michaels during a casket match.
Wrestling is pretty dangerous, I agree.
But it was pretty easy to find 10 in football.
That was the from 1931-99. There have been more since then.The annual survey of football deaths and injuries began at Yale University in 1931, moved to Purdue University in 1942 and has been at UNC-Chapel Hill since 1965.
Over the past 70 years, 616 high school and 80 college players have died as a direct result of injuries suffered on the playing field.
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/aug...er11081400.htm
I don't know why you are getting so upset. I just asked a question.
High school?
So does this mean I can include backyard wrestling deaths? I'll bet there are over a hundred of them just in this century.
That's why I bolded the "80 college players" phrase.
Read before you post next time.
I got upset because you are too stupid too read...
I asked for a list of deaths on the field or right after the game...
Not because of injuries sustained during a game...as I said originally, the asterisks don't include all the deaths from injuries sustained during the match.
The asterisks are people that died during the match or right after it.
You learn to read first...idiot.
Korey Stringer, Thomas Herrion, Curtis Williams, Chucky Williams, Chuck Hughes, Stone Johnson, Dave Sparks, Howard Glenn, Stan Mauldin.
If you add HGH and coke to a 330 lb. OL/DL, I think the numbers would far exceed wrestling.
Edit: Damn, just on the field? Then it's Hughes, Sparks (died 3 hours after the game -close enough), Mauldin (collapsed in the lockerroom) and Howard Glenn.
I believe if I remember correctly, Stringer and Herrion died on the practice field. I'd count them.
Last edited by DisgruntledLionFan#54,927; 06-27-2007 at 04:15 PM.
Aw, hootie -- it's tough when your hero takes a fall isn't it?
Serves your dumb ass right.
I agreed wrasslin' is dangerous.
It's also stupid.
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