Indy stars who have dropped off the face of the earth?

[autisticgeordie]

I mean, I get that with indy wrestling, a lot of the people there have other jobs that might prevent them from working as many dates for a long period of time; but it's always a bit of a shame when really talented indy stars just drop off the face of the earth, especially if that happens at a time where they're doing really well. 

The biggest one I can think of is Harlow O'Hara, who's got a really unique look and a gimmick (which is more than a lot of indy wrestlers have) that really makes her stand out; she was doing really well for herself and then she just disappeared, she's not posted anything on social media or even had a match since November of 2019. 

What other examples can you think of in terms of talented indy stars who seemed to just disappear from the industry?

[Spider2024]

El Generico. Very sad story.

[lucas_lee]

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Xavier: At one point ROH HW Champ to having no idea what hes doing now.

[Mozenrath]

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Xavier: At one point ROH HW Champ to having no idea what hes doing now.

Xavier popped up again recently to work with ROH again, though I think that may have gotten shelved by COVID. I don't follow ROH closely enough to be sure.

[cassonova]

Jul 1, 2020 6:32:16 GMT -5 Spider2024 said:

El Generico. Very sad story.

To be fair, he retired to take care of his beloved orphans.

[Jaws the Shark]

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Slyk Wagner Brown is still around but I'm fairly sure he got blackballed by a lot of promoters when he was arrested for assaulting April Hunter.

Kid Romeo drifted around TNA during the weekly PPV era, and Puerto Rico before disappearing. I seem to remember a short piece on him in WCW Magazine in about 1999 hyping him up as a potential star. Then he wasn't.

[froggyfrog]

Takeshi Morishima
The SAT
Erick Stevens (he came back though)
Sexxxy Eddy
Beef Wellington
Ruckus
A bunch of Chikara guys

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Jul 1, 2020 15:44:05 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

Takeshi Morishima

Oof, he is a sad and baffling story. Forced into retirement by illness, then his return was derailed when he got in a fight with a taxi driver (!!). So weird to think that he once felt like he was about to become the biggest star in Japan.

[adamclark52]

Jul 1, 2020 6:51:08 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Xavier: At one point ROH HW Champ to having no idea what hes doing now.

Xavier popped up again recently to work with ROH again, though I think that may have gotten shelved by COVID. I don't follow ROH closely enough to be sure.

He did/was supposed to be at the Past Verses Present show the night after the 18th Anniversary show in March. But that show was supposed to be the weekend that shit hit the fan and it didn’t happen.

He was scheduled to face Jay Lethal

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I thought Tadasuke was going to be huge, but he never got any more US bookings outside of CHIKARA and as far as I know also didn't really leave Osaka Pro, have no clue what he's doing now. Dude won the Young Lions Cup and never defended it in the US until the next tournament happened in a year. Easily topping Max Boyer (Hey another one that can fit this list) as aloof Young Lions Cup champion.

[Oh Cry Me a Screwball]

Jul 1, 2020 6:51:08 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Xavier: At one point ROH HW Champ to having no idea what hes doing now.

Xavier popped up again recently to work with ROH again, though I think that may have gotten shelved by COVID. I don't follow ROH closely enough to be sure.

Xavier was supposed to work RoH's past vs. present show in Vegas the same weekend of the 18th Anniversary show. If the COVID shutdowns took place one week later, those events would have occurred.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

Jul 1, 2020 15:44:05 GMT -5 froggyfrog said:

Takeshi Morishima
The SAT
Erick Stevens (he came back though)
Sexxxy Eddy
Beef Wellington
Ruckus
A bunch of Chikara guys

Made me curious as they where such hot talent in the 00s and by 2010 most feel off. So I went and looked the up on cagematch.com


Ruckus as been in GCW, if fact worked March 12 which was around the time of the pandemic took over. He was active.

The SAT is a mystery going from one of the hottest and booked everywhere tag team, to all of sudden nothing. I believe Same could be said for the Ballard Brothers. Looking the SATs up can't find anything since 2016. I think they just train wrestlers now.

Sexxxy Eddy just looked him up, he still wrestling but mostly all Canada.

Beef Wellington pretty much retired. No matches in 2015, 2 matches in 2016, non in 2017, One in 2018, and 2 in 2019. Looking at 2012 and on, he spot matches. No more than 4. Seems he only does local stuff in Quebec when he does wrestle.


Someone brought up Wifebeater, he was pretty much retired when I saw him in CZW in the 00s. That ultra Violent stuff he did a lot of those guys careers where short. Speaking of federations. Name any regular non ECW guys from XPW. Just about all of them disappeared. The last I saw any of them was Kaos in Wrestling Society X.

[badkarma]

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Wifebeater's shoulder was badly injured at Cage of Death 3 when Justice Pain gave him a pain thriller off the top of the cage.
His injury never healed properly, and he retired, for a year, or two.
When Wifebeater returned from retirement, even though he won another Tournament of Death, he was not the same performer.
He was flabby, slow, and looked like he couldn't care less about being a pro wrestler.
According to reports he only came back for the money, which explains his attitude, and appearance.
He retired for good shortly there after.

I always liked Wifebeater's gimmick and pairing with Big Mac Smack as a mouth piece.
In the early 2000's he was an absolute juggernaut on the US death match scene.

[kingoftheindies]

Jul 2, 2020 0:36:00 GMT -5 @adnonlkc said:

Jul 1, 2020 17:16:00 GMT -5 badkarma said:

According to reports he only came back for the money, which explains his attitude, and appearance.

When an independent wrestler "only comes back for the money," yeah, they shouldn't be coming back to the indies.

He made pretty good money with his construction company so it was all just extra money for him and for fun.

For those mentioning Beef Wellington he is the booker for Battlewar in Canada. He had a lot of injuries and is one of the guys who has helped rebuild the Canadian indies.

There was a time when the top tag team from the west coast was Bobby Quance and Jardi Frantz. There was also a time when people thought the likes of Exxess 69 and Slim J were going to be big time wrestlers

[Display Name]

Kid Romeo was recently brought up on The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast. He and Ryder/Cardona had a chat at a local gym. Said he’s still in great shape.

[Psicofreak667]

MsChif was one of the biggest deals on the women's indy scene in the early 2010s, and then at the end of 2013 she just stopped, had a handful of matches in small promotions in 2014 and that was it.

[autisticgeordie]

Oh, I've just remembered one, Cheerleader Melissa, there was a time where she was working in every place there was to work and was one of the top wrestlers on the indies scene, now I think she might genuinely be retired since she was hardly wrestling even before this pandemic, which is a shame, because she was so damn good (if you ignore her meh promos.)

[Bob Schlapowitz]

Jul 3, 2020 13:37:19 GMT -5 @adnonlkc said:

Jul 3, 2020 13:35:12 GMT -5 Psicofreak667 said:

MsChif was one of the biggest deals on the women's indy scene in the early 2010s, and then at the end of 2013 she just stopped, had a handful of matches in small promotions in 2014 and that was it.

Pregnancy will do that to a wrestler.

Didn't she marry Michael Elgin? 😬

[chronocross]

Whatever happened to Prince Nana and Jimmy Rave?

[wrestlingrecap]

Jul 1, 2020 6:39:44 GMT -5 lucas_lee said:

Wifebeater: He was a CZW mainstay that kinda just dropped off the face of the earth.

Slyk Wagner Brown: I used to watch him in JAPW access tv show and I dunno what happened to him after the feud with Homicide.

Kid Romeo: I always wondered what happened to him after WCW.

Xavier: At one point ROH HW Champ to having no idea what hes doing now.

Slyck had a couple of ROH tryouts and wrestled a lot for 2CW in Upstate and also works for Xcite in the same area. He had a some really good work in 2CW. He's also a regular for Big Time Wrestling. He also had a tryout with TNA in 2011.