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Still in his rookie year, Poffo and his father then headed to Big Time Wrestling, one of the varied promotions affiliated with the National Wrestling Alliance at that time. In their initial match with BTW, Lanny and Angelo lost by disqualification to Lou Thesz and Mighty Igor on November 30, 1974, at a house show in Detroit, Michigan. [ 8 ]
Professional wrestler [28] January 24 Rod Holcomb: 80 Director (several TV movies and series, most notably the pilot and final episodes of ER) [29] Jesse Jane: 43 Pornographic actress. She made appearances as herself on Entourage, Bad Girls Club, and Gene Simmons Family Jewels. She also had an uncredited role in the TV movie Baywatch: Hawaiian ...
[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.
Later, he emigrated to the United States, moving to Jersey City, New Jersey in 2017. [3] In 2019 he would begin competing for his adopted country. In 2023, Vera won a bronze medal at the Pan American Championships for the United States, and in 2024, he won a silver medal at the event for Team USA.
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.
Jeff Gaylord (October 15, 1958 – March 15, 2023) was an American professional wrestler who competed in North American regional and independent promotions including Bill Watts' Universal Wrestling Federation, World Class Championship Wrestling and the United States Wrestling Association during the late 1980s and 1990s, most notably as a frequent tag team partner of Jeff Jarrett.
Drozdov's active wrestling career ended prematurely when he suffered a severe neck injury during a match with D'Lo Brown during a WWF SmackDown! taping on October 5, 1999, at Nassau Coliseum on Long Island. The incident occurred just five months after the death of Owen Hart. Droz later stated that he was wearing a loose shirt during the match ...
The Brodie Lee Celebration of Life was a professional wrestling memorial event and television special produced by All Elite Wrestling (AEW). The event took place on December 30, 2020, at Daily's Place in Jacksonville, Florida and was broadcast on TNT as a special episode of Dynamite.