|
|
Post by Throwback on Jun 1, 2010 2:44:26 GMT -5
I'm sorry if this seems disrespectful. But I was looking at a list of wrestlers who have passed away and there's a few on the list that I had no idea about.
Playboy Buddy Rose
Steven Dunn from the tag team Well Dunn
Ernie Ladd
Alfred Hayes
Mrs Cleavage
|
|
|
|
Post by Kris Kobain on Jun 1, 2010 3:22:32 GMT -5
I didn't know Tony Halme had passed away until about 2 months ago.
|
|
|
|
Post by The Summer of Muskrat XVII on Jun 1, 2010 4:09:11 GMT -5
I didn't know Tony Halme had passed away until about 2 months ago. I thought he only died like 2-3 months ago. One for the other side of the coin, I constantly forget that Dynamite Kid is still alive |
|
|
|
Post by Kris Kobain on Jun 1, 2010 4:17:21 GMT -5
January 8th....so close to 6 months ago.
To go with your flipside I always forget Magnum T.A. didn't die.
|
|
|
|
Post by majortom on Jun 1, 2010 4:37:04 GMT -5
I didn't know Tony Halme had passed away until about 2 months ago. I thought he only died like 2-3 months ago. One for the other side of the coin, I constantly forget that Dynamite Kid is still alive Yeah Dynamite Kid is a perfect example of someone I keep thinking is dead. His whole life is just a textbook example of how a life in pro wrestling will be the end of you yet he of all people is still alive :s |
|
Peeetah
Hank Scorpio
BANG
Posts: 5,405
|
Post by Peeetah on Jun 1, 2010 5:08:19 GMT -5
I thought he only died like 2-3 months ago. One for the other side of the coin, I constantly forget that Dynamite Kid is still alive Yeah Dynamite Kid is a perfect example of someone I keep thinking is dead. His whole life is just a textbook example of how a life in pro wrestling will be the end of you yet he of all people is still alive :s To be fair he's in a wheelchair living in a council house and is just about the most bitter man alive today not the best of lives. |
|
Totorob101
Hank Scorpio
Glob Glob Glob
Posts: 5,638
|
Post by Totorob101 on Jun 1, 2010 7:56:40 GMT -5
I had no idea Steven Dunn and Playboy buddy Rose had passed  .. |
|
|
|
Post by willywonka666 on Jun 1, 2010 7:58:56 GMT -5
I had forgotten about Buddy Rose dying. If it wasn't for this site there would be a few of the more obscure wrestlers I wouldn't know about dying.
|
|
|
|
Post by johnnyk9 on Jun 1, 2010 11:08:39 GMT -5
I still get from people "Didn't the orginal Ultimate Warrior die? And they replaced him with a lookalike" my goodness will it ever stop
|
|
|
|
Post by Woooooolhouse! on Jun 1, 2010 12:14:51 GMT -5
Someone on a video site had an Umaga match, and I was thinking how great it would be if he joined Usos back on Raw... took me a couple minutes before remembering why that can never happen...
|
|
|
|
Post by Aceorton on Jun 1, 2010 16:58:16 GMT -5
I didn't hear about the Haiti Kid's passing until several years later.
|
|
Jeremy
Hank Scorpio
Horse of a Different Color
Posts: 6,240
|
Post by Jeremy on Jun 1, 2010 17:00:44 GMT -5
I thought up until his induction into the hall of fame in 2006 that Tony Atlas died in 2000.
|
|
|
|
Post by Nacho STAYS Hyped on Jun 1, 2010 17:34:40 GMT -5
"I didn't even know they were sick!"
I always forget that Hayabusa is still amongst the living.
|
|
|
|
Post by bitteroldman on Jun 1, 2010 19:01:06 GMT -5
I just found out that S D Jones had passed when I looked him up on Wikipedia
|
|
|
|
Post by celticjobber on Jun 1, 2010 20:08:21 GMT -5
I've talked to people who as recently as last month didn't know that Umaga had died. And the Sears Essentials (basically a fancier K-Mart) store near me still has some of his action figures and a "bop bag" of him.
And there's a surprising number of fans who aren't aware that Test died.
|
|
|
|
Post by Alex Shelley on Jun 1, 2010 21:35:43 GMT -5
For some reason I always get Lex Luger and Curt Hennig mixed up, and I think Curt is alive and Lex is dead.
|
|
h
Hank Scorpio
Posts: 5,734
|
Post by h on Jun 2, 2010 8:39:12 GMT -5
I heard about John Kronus's death in 2007, but it surprised me once again this week when I saw him on a list of dead wrestlers. Sometimes I also try to remember which member of Public Enemy died, and I get even more sad when I realize that it was both of them.
|
|
|
|
Post by Throwback on Jun 2, 2010 19:30:14 GMT -5
I got a lot of "didn't he die?"s when I was reading my Bret Hart book in public a few months ago. I get that alot too. I've learned to answer with, "nope, that was his little brother" Because 9/10 they're thinking of the news stories they saw about Owen year ago. |
|
Dee.
Team Rocket
Posts: 997
|
Post by Dee. on Jun 2, 2010 20:08:07 GMT -5
Miss Elizabeth and Sensational Sherri.
Two great managers, valets, what have you. Both died of drug overdoses. Both highly unexpected.
I think Sherri died around the Benoit scandal, I don't recall her ever getting a tribute on RAW or Smackdown either. I was completely gutted when I found out, especially since only two years before she sung with Kurt.
|
|
|
|
Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jun 2, 2010 20:16:59 GMT -5
I think Sherri died around the Benoit scandal, I don't recall her ever getting a tribute on RAW or Smackdown either. It was also the middle of the "Vince's fiery death" angle and that played a part in the lack of a tribute. Why acknowledge a real life death when you can play up a fake one? |
|
..
