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ratso
10-23-2006, 04:19 PM
http://www.100megsfree4.com/wiawrestling/pages/other/obituary.htm
Seems to be a lot due to heart failure and drugs... :jawdrop:

bocco
10-24-2006, 09:18 AM
May 6, 2004 Pepper Gomez. Damn, him Pedro Morales were a great tag team when I was a kid. Back then it was real wrestling, right?

Kilrtoy
10-24-2006, 09:25 AM
JESUS H CHRIST
they are all screwed up..
Drug over dose, Suicide or death from steroid abuse....
What a F***ED UP LIFE

MayDaze
10-24-2006, 09:29 AM
Damn the Von Erich family has had it rough....3 have died from Suicide

Jbb
10-24-2006, 09:39 AM
Haystacks!....
http://wrestlingencyclopedia.com/Images2/haystacks.jpg
Standing 6’4” and tipping the scales at a mammoth 640 pounds, the gargantuan hillbilly was one of the foremost drawing cards amidst the industry’s “Golden Age” of the 1950’s and 1960’s while sporting his trademark white T-shirt, blue overalls, and horseshoe necklace. The chief pioneer for the sport’s super-heavyweight attractions, William “Haystacks” Calhoun is #98 on the list of professional wrestling’s 100 Most Influential Figures.

ratso
10-24-2006, 09:58 AM
Damn the Von Erich family has had it rough....3 have died from Suicide
Yeah it sucks. Kerry was one of my favorites. Heck, I remember watching Fritz Von Erich and "the iron claw" back when I was a kid... and even when Ivan Putski came on the scene. I don't care much for it nowdays though. It used to be entertaining, now it's just plain stuipid.

Howie Feltersnatch
10-24-2006, 10:07 AM
I saw Fritz Von Erich apply the "Iron Claw" at the old Sportatorium when I was 7 or 8 years old. After the matches I went down and got an autographed picture. Too bad about his kids. After Kerry killed himself and Fritz finally died his wife did a TV interview and basically blamed him for their deaths for being a crappy dad & pushing them all into wresting. A sad story. There is one surviving son (Kevin I think) & the family lives in my town somewhere but don't know where.

ratso
10-25-2006, 04:11 AM
I saw Fritz Von Erich apply the "Iron Claw" at the old Sportatorium when I was 7 or 8 years old. After the matches I went down and got an autographed picture. Too bad about his kids. After Kerry killed himself and Fritz finally died his wife did a TV interview and basically blamed him for their deaths for being a crappy dad & pushing them all into wresting. A sad story. There is one surviving son (Kevin I think) & the family lives in my town somewhere but don't know where.
Aren't they around the Denton area??? Really sucks about the way things turned out for that family. I can't believe they haven't been approached to make a movie about them yet...

Howie Feltersnatch
10-25-2006, 04:37 AM
Lake Dallas. Just south of Denton.