The other was a pin of Chandler Biggins, one of AIW’s co-owners who died a few years back. Search for: View All. This became apparent when his health declined and he retired. Every single dead wrestler, even the ones who were lucky enough to live a full life, has a profound impact on the tapestry that is professional wrestling in a way that’s different, I think, than film, television, sports, and other kinds of visual entertainment. WWE legend Mick Foley tweeted: ‘My deepest condolences to the family, friends and fans of luchador Principe Aereo, who died in the ring, following an apparent stroke. The wrestling world is mourning once again, just days after Mexican luchador Principe Aereo died aged 26 after collapsing in the middle of a match. The pin made me cry, then it made me think about how, once or twice a year, Kevin Owens, who briefly wrestled in AIW before signing a WWE contract (who I wanted to book so badly, to the point where Biggins would joke that I needed to start making “Steen money” at work to make it happen), tweets about how good Biggins was to him, how important he was to his scene and indie wrestling in general. Benoit exists at one extreme of the spectrum of dead wrestlers, where the way he died makes him entirely irredeemable. What they share, if they share anything, is that their absence in the world is an indictment of their profession and the expectations placed on them, both by the companies they worked for and their fans, whether those expectations were real or merely perceived. R.I.P. Actually, it’s worse than that. I haven’t seen the episode of Dark Side of the Ring about the negligence that led to his utterly preventable death, and I’m not sure I can. The obviousness of her talent and potential was startling, and now that’s gone, but in a peculiar way where it’s not. Initially, this was going to be an essay about Owen Hart, an essay on the resting unease with which I’ve regarded the work (and ultimately the occupation) of one of my favorite wrestlers for the majority of my life. Maybe that was true 20, 30 years ago, but a lot has changed in the way fans engage with wrestlers, and I think that change begins with Owen Hart’s death, which prompted Raw is Owen and a later tribute match on WCW Monday Nitro between Bret Hart and Chris Benoit in the same arena Owen died in, which is now one of the most emotionally complicated matches in the history of wrestling. Wrestling under Vince McMahon’s booming World Wrestling Federation (now WWE), Johnson could be seen squaring off against the likes of Don Muraco, Adrian Adonis, “Iron” Mike Sharpe, Greg Valentine, and Buddy Rose. In the middle of the book, breaking the otherwise year by year timeline of Foley’s career, is a chapter simply titled “Owen.” It was, in all likelihood, the last thing written for the book, the rawness of its grief barely mediated by editing. The Owen Hart Police Report Is a Chilling Reminder of WWE’s History with Worker Safety.

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Wrestler Deaths Archive and tribute to dead wrestlers I let the envelope sit on my coffee table for a while before opening it yesterday.

RIP’, Ricochet tweeted: ‘So young. In October 1999, Mick Foley published his first memoir, Mankind: A Tale of Blood and Sweatsocks. Wrestlers are celebrities now, even if relatively few become major ones, and one of the facts about celebrity in a world where everything is hyperniche is that directly engaging with the people who believe in your celebrity is as effective a way of building it as just showing up to do your job on television on Monday night. That show has a real weird vibe now, like Vince McMahon and company were throwing a public funeral where, gun to head, their grieving wrestlers had to process the fact that the company they worked for killed him while also sorting through their memories of someone they’d been traveling, working, and joking around with in arenas, at hotels, and on the road for years. He was 75. Rocky Johnson Wrestling Career Rocky Johnson was born in Nova Scotia in 1944, and by age 20 was already wrestling throughout Ontario. The Ultimate Warrior, you’re watching two dead men wrestle, accompanied by the voices of dead men, the circumstances of those deaths, tragic or not, front and present, because the line that separates the audience and the performer—that line being character—is so thin that it’s barely there. The thing is, this can’t be an essay about Owen Hart. 16 Wrestlers Who Have Died In 2020. The luchador is considered the first and only wrestler to die of the disease. It means knowing what drove Hana Kimura to suicide. Category:2020 deaths - Pro Wrestling Wiki - Divas, Knockouts, Results, Match histories, Titles, and more! Register Start a Wiki. Share. When fate brought Laurinaitis and Michael Hegstrand together as the hastily assembled team of Animal and Hawk (aka the Road Warriors), they parlayed the opportunity into one of the biggest careers in professional wrestling, breaking records and breaking the bank. 130,960 Pages. When they die we’re asked over and over again to keep moving as though these deaths are anomalous, as if grief for these strangers is a series of disconnected phenomena when every single person on the internet is intensely connected to someone they’d otherwise never know, as if those connections aren’t part of the business of fandom anymore.

Kimura was so young that the hole can’t be fantasy booked away. He was 70 years old. Dead Wrestlers. Ryan Smile has died aged 31, and some of the wrestling world’s biggest names have paid their respects. According to ESPN, the lifeguard, who also has a middle school-aged son, was presented with an excruciating dilemma as he recognized how big Shad was – 6 foot 6 inches, around 270 pounds… “Based on the gentlemen’s size and the conditions in the water… these are choices.

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve read any of Foley’s books or watched either film, but as a consequence of them I feel a deep and likely everlasting connection to Foley and Bret, and the chapter in Foley’s memoir about Owen made this cartoon angry little brother who I knew nothing about outside of his in-ring life, a real man. I wish they were here, obviously, but almost more than that, selfishly, I wish it wasn’t so difficult to engage with their work, that doing so didn’t require choking down grief as much as it does. This is the most complete dead wrestlers list on the Internet. Consider the rise of the wrestling webseries, which went from being something that made WWE pay attention to Zack Ryder to ostensibly launching a new wrestling promotion as a direct competitor to WWE. At this point, few essays about dead wrestlers, beyond initial reports of their death and further investigation, should be about the individual. Tweet.

It is now a constant cycle of connection and trauma, and getting off the ride won’t help. When something bad happens to a wrestler, that potential, what they could have contributed to their art, remains. A tragic loss RIP’. AEW star Joey Janella was amongst the US wrestlers to pay tribute to Smile, as he tweeted: ‘We had a match at @RevProUK after a hectic day on my behalf getting to the show, he was a great professional, we talked about the match for 10 minutes and went out there & had one of my best matches across the pond! Consider the role reality television has played in the general public’s perception of the Bella Twins and other members of the women’s division. The sad news came after a difficult week for the wrestling world, with British star Ryan Smile losing his fight with mental health, while German legend Karsten Beck died after a long battle with brain cancer. It’s not fun to think about what either could have done, but the same way Star Trek fans have wondered what it’d be like for Kirk and Spock to date for over 50 years, wrestling by its very nature encourages fantasy. Never in my wildest dreams as a child who loved wrestling did I think I’d get to know a wrestler as a person, let alone one who died while I was still a child, but that’s a normal state of affairs now, one that’s often rewarding, but is just as often tragic.

In a world where this kind of connection isn’t possible, neither is any of that. ‘His talent and contribution set the standard for what British/Irish wrestling was to become. How social media proved that there was a market for women’s wrestling. It’s impossible to shut off whatever it is that makes it possible, even necessary, to grieve for complete strangers. I am glad there is and will always be something of them in this world. Perhaps most notable was Johnson’s early 1980s run.

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