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[2] [3] [4] Experts suggest that a combination of the physical nature of the business, no off-season, and potentially high work load (with some wrestlers fighting more than 100 and even 200 matches per year), along with the drug culture in wrestling during the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s contributes to high mortality rates among wrestlers.
This category lists people who died during a professional wrestling match or event, or post-match from an incident that started in-ring. Pages in category "Professional wrestling deaths" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
Michael John Lockwood (August 25, 1971 – November 6, 2003) was an American professional wrestler.He was best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) / World Wrestling Entertainment from 1999 to 2003 under the ring names Crash Holly or simply Crash.
Sid Vicious, one of the stars of WWE’s WrestleMania in the 1990s, has died. He was 63. The wrestler, born Sidney Eudy, also competed under the names Sycho Sid, Sid Justice and Lord Humungous.
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Windham Rotunda, known better as WWE wrestler Bray Wyatt, has died at age 36. Rotunda died unexpectedly on Thursday, according to WWE CCO Triple H. In a post to Twitter, Triple H wrote: “Just ...
While ten-bell salutes have typically been reserved for real-life deaths, it has been used in kayfabe on multiple occasions in WWE history (see worked shoot).The most recent instance was in June 2007 for Mr. McMahon (WWE chairman Vince McMahon's on-screen persona), as part of an angle in which he was inside a limousine that exploded, and was presumed dead.
WCW - Hart's departure from WWF and his tenure in World Championship Wrestling. The Death Of Owen Hart - On the 1999 pay-per-view, "Over the Edge", Owen Hart fell 75 feet into the ring and died. Problems In WCW - During a StarrCade PPV, fellow wrestler Bill Goldberg accidentally inflicted Hart with a career ending concussion. [19]