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Rey Urbano, who originated the gimmick in the early 70's, passed away at a Las Vegas Nursing Home.
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -Former pro wrestler Brian "Crush'' Adams died last month after accidentally ingesting a lethal mixture of prescribed medications, the
medical examiner's office said Friday.
The 44-year-old Tampa resident died Aug. 13 from mixing a strong painkiller with muscle relaxants and two different types of sedatives, said Dr. Leszek
Chrostowski from the Hillsborough County medical examiner's office.
Chrostowski said he found "therapeutic levels'' of each of the drugs in his system, but the mixture slowed his respiratory system enough to kill him.
There were no anabolic steroids in Adams' body, a report from the office said.
The drugs that killed Adams included buprenorphine, an opiate-based painkiller that Chrostowski said is often used like methadone in the treatment of painkiller
addiction; carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant; and sedatives chlordiazepoxide and alprazolam.
Adams wasn't breathing when his wife found him unconscious in their home.
A former world tag team champion, Adams last performed for the World Wrestling Federation in 2001 and served intermittently on the roster beginning in 1990,
World Wrestling Entertainment said. He wrestled his last match in January 2003 when a spinal injury forced him into retirement.
Adams' death came less than two months after pro wrestler Chris Benoit killed his wife and son before hanging himself on the cable of a weight machine in
his Georgia home. Prescription anabolic steroids were found in the Benoit family's home, raising questions about whether the drugs played a role in the
killings.
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Billy Darnell passed away Thursday at the age of 81
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Karloff Lagarde who teamed with Rene Guajardo to form one of the top lucha teams maybe ever passed away early this morning at the age of 79. Lagarde had suffered a stroke not all that long ago.
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While I think I prefer last week's article in the Washington Post, the one thing I appreciate most about Deford's piece is the recognition that wrestling is indeed a sport for the reasons I've been saying forever now.
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More info on SLAM! Wrestling's site. Robertson, who had been in the hospital for over a week now, had been fighting cancer for a year and succumbed to the disease Thursday morning at 3:30AM in a Hamilton, Ontario hospital surrounded by family and friends who we send our condolences to.
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(Note, I originally sent this to Dave Meltzer, thus references to best and worst match and PPV voting)
I ordered Hard Justice on Sunday night and some of my friends came over to watch it. I can't vote thumbs up, down or in the middle or tell you a best/worst match because I got up in the middle of the show and took a walk around the lake.
I've ordered every TNA pay per view since Victory Road 2004 which was their first monthly PPV. I used to own all of their Pay Per View events on DVD. Sunday was the last show I will order for quite some time. It isn't really all TNA's fault either though they do play a large role.
I'd pretty much given up on the WWE back when Dr. Hiney appeared only watching it a few times since then, I didn't think it was right that I should be embarrassed to watch something even though I was the only one in the room.
I love wrestling and I will always love wrestling as an art form. I don't really like wrestling so much. It seems wrong to me that I can sit and watch a performer, wonder how long I will be able to enjoy him/her before they're unable to wrestle anymore to injury or worse because they've died and to not have it seem unreasonable to wonder such things about people in their mid-20's up to their early to late 30's.
It disgusts me that the owner of the most powerful and successful wrestling company in the world can refer to congress as a bunch of Barney Fifes because they have the nerve to ask for information relating to the health and well being of his performers. I know Vince said that so that when Congress does come down on him, he can say it was because of what he called them and that makes it worse. That's just another way of trying to rationalize the problem out of site.
I don't really want the government to regulate pro wrestling but then it isn't as though the industry has ever shown an ability to police itself. Lord knows WWE gets away with a lot of things in the way they conduct business that Congress isn't investigating.
Then there's TNA. This company has no known drug policy and will hire any WWE castoff who even remotely has a name just so they can point to that guy and say: "Look who we signed, he used to be in the WWE". Then at a time when the industry needs to focus on cleaning itself up they go and sign Pacman Jones one of the most polar opposite figures to clean as you can find and all so they can get mentioned on ESPN and Dixie Carter can have her picture taken with another supposed star so she can hang it on her wall. This company isn't about networking it is about people being able to point at others and say I've associated with them. I'm sure there are some dedicated employees in both TNA and WWE and I hope they are able to hold on but it seems like tiny voices crying out in a room the size of the known universe.
So I sold all those TNA DVDS and Sunday was the last show I'm going to order. I know some wrestling companies do put on good shows but the stench of the industry to me overcomes any **** match or above.
I'm glad I have MMA though it is not without its own faults. I stopped writing about wrestling for the most part on my personal site and while I'll still continue to follow the industry I just can't contribute any of my money to a wrestling company these days. I hope that somehow, some way the industry is cleaned up but I've had the optimism beaten out of me in this regard.
Thanks for letting me vent:
Casey Trowbridge
Huron, SD.
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A couple of things WWE left out of their announcement but of which I'm sure they'd like you all to be reminded is that he was not under WWE contract when he passed away, thus the number is still only 5. Oh, and those Barney Fife's better not add him to any kind of list or Vince will start calling them Chief Wiggums instead.
Adams was a fixture in WWE and WCW for many years. His last run in the WWE was as a member of KroniK with tag partner Bryan Clark which ended after a pretty bad match at Unforgiven 2001 against Undertaker and Kane. He was also the third member and really the replacement for Axe in 'Demolition' and in the interest of full disclosure I was a huge Demolition mark.
He was also a member of the Nation of Domination and the New World Order during his career in WWF and WCW. He also founded the Disciples of Apocalypse during the "Gang Wars" era which was also a gimmick I liked but I felt was mishandled.
Best wishes go to his family, friends and fans.
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