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Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:18 PM
I dunno if this has been discussed but I just watched it on WWE.com out of curiousity.. Kinda late in the interview, they start discussing wrestler who've died at a young age.. They start showing pictures of said wrestlers, with the death year, and cause of death, etc.. Anyway, they show Owen Hart and put the cause of death as "heart attack"..

:wtf:

You would think their reserchers would do a better job than that..

Also, Vince said that since they've been in buissness, five wrestlers who were under contract have died.. Owen Hart, Pillman, Benoit, Eddie, who was the other one??

DarKCentaur
06-28-2007, 12:22 PM
Was Crash Holly still employed when he died?

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:23 PM
British Bulldog??

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:23 PM
Was Crash Holly still employed when he died?
Yeah, that's prolly him..

I dunno..

I stopped watching wrestling years ago..

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 12:23 PM
Anyway, they show Owen Hart and put the cause of death as "heart attack"..

:wtf:

You would think their reserchers would do a better job than that.

Aww, someone still trusts the media to do their jobs. That's just precious.

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 12:24 PM
I'm pretty sure neither of those were still with WWE when they died (wasn't Crash actually working as a bouncer somewhere?)

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 12:25 PM
Maybe he's counting the Undertaker? *runs and hides*

DarKCentaur
06-28-2007, 12:25 PM
British Bulldog??

Yeah maybe... could have also been the Bossman

Kane Knight
06-28-2007, 12:25 PM
So...Owen didn't die of a heart attack?

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:25 PM
Aww, someone still trusts the media to do their jobs. That's just precious.

Aww, someones a Star Wars fan boy.. That's just homosexual..

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:27 PM
So...Owen didn't die of a heart attack?

Unless he went into cardiac arrest during the fall, I'd say no..

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 12:27 PM
Aww, someones a Star Wars fan boy.. That's just homosexual..

How many times do I have to tell you people I am ALL ABOUT PUSSY?!

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:27 PM
Yeah maybe... could have also been the Bossman

The Big Bossman died??

:'(

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 12:28 PM
How many times do I have to tell you people I am ALL ABOUT PUSSY?!

I'm talking about your sexual prefrence, not how you choose to act..

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 12:31 PM
I'm talking about your sexual prefrence, not how you choose to act..

I am all man, god dammit.

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Goulet
06-28-2007, 12:39 PM
It was Bossman

*edit* found this at gerweck.net

Russ Haas, heart attack, December 15, 2001

JT
06-28-2007, 01:51 PM
It was Bossman

*edit* found this at gerweck.net

Russ Haas, heart attack, December 15, 2001

Bossman was a WWE regular and appeared almost every year in WWE till his death, though I don't know if he was under contract at the time.

Crash wasn't under contract, and I believe he was working for TNA at the time under the name Mighty Mikey.

May have been Russ Haas...he had a developmental contract, but don't know if he was the one, or if Vince was just giving a rounded number.

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 01:52 PM
Or... he was counting himself. :shifty:

Pardeep 619
06-28-2007, 02:01 PM
Only other person that springs to mind is Andre as I don't think they technically released him and he did die of heart failure

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 02:03 PM
Yeah, Andre might still have been with the company.

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 02:03 PM
Andre died in like '96..

No way he was still under contract..

Goulet
06-28-2007, 02:04 PM
Andre died in '93

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 02:05 PM
Did he even wrestle after he started acting??

Savio
06-28-2007, 02:08 PM
Andre died in 04

Pardeep 619
06-28-2007, 02:08 PM
I remember Andre was still apearing at shows from time to time in late 1991 even though he didn't wrestle, and died I think in January 1993 (?) I think Freddie Blassie mentioned in his book (something along the lines of) that Vince didn't want to release the guy because 'everyone would miss the big fuck'.

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 02:08 PM
Alittle research turned up that his last TV appearance was "a brief interview on WCW's Clash of the Champions 20" special that aired on TBS on Sept 2, 1992.. No way MacMahon let a contracted wrestler appear on a WCW event..

It might be Freddie Blassie because he was doing alot of on air shit around the time of his death.. Promoting his book and whatnot..

Anybody Thrilla
06-28-2007, 02:12 PM
Wasn't Mr. Perfect under contract when he died?

Xero
06-28-2007, 02:13 PM
Pretty sure Perfect had been released. Wasn't he released because of the Plane Ride from Hell?

Xero
06-28-2007, 02:14 PM
Also, Crash Holly was out of WWE for a while when he died. He even appeared on TNA a few times.

Theo Dious
06-28-2007, 02:14 PM
Pretty sure Perfect had been released. Wasn't he released because of the Plane Ride from Hell?

Yes, yes he was.

Savio
06-28-2007, 02:15 PM
I cant find this interviw on wwe.com

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 02:18 PM
Yeah, I just went back to watch it again it's not up.. The One seems to think they said Davey Boy Smith not Owen died of a heart attack but I'm pretty sure it was Owen..

Xero
06-28-2007, 02:20 PM
I just checked (I tivoed it). They had Owen's picture but Bulldog's name up. They had the right information, wrong picture.

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 02:22 PM
Ah..

Corkscrewed
06-28-2007, 02:41 PM
It was Bossman

*edit* found this at gerweck.net

Russ Haas, heart attack, December 15, 2001

Since he was in OVW at the time (I believe), that does put him under WWE Corporation payroll, right?

steveironcity
06-28-2007, 04:58 PM
The Big Bossman died??

:'(


Yes. Buried along side him in the casket is a big stick... A ball and chain too.

Jeritron
06-28-2007, 05:09 PM
Yeah, I just went back to watch it again it's not up.. The One seems to think they said Davey Boy Smith not Owen died of a heart attack but I'm pretty sure it was Owen..

It was Owen Hart, saw it with my own two eyes and commented on it in the stickied Benoit death thread right when it happened.

PapaGeorgio
06-28-2007, 05:12 PM
http://video.msn.com/v/us/fv/msnbc/fv.htm???g=6fc941c3-ad35-4f6c-882a-b2f056f06a72&f=05&fg=rss&

Can watch the video there peeps.

Kris P Lettus
06-28-2007, 05:12 PM
I just checked (I tivoed it). They had Owen's picture but Bulldog's name up. They had the right information, wrong picture.

KingofOldSchool
06-28-2007, 07:20 PM
Since he was in OVW at the time (I believe), that does put him under WWE Corporation payroll, right?

No, not really. A lot of people in OVW are on the WWE payroll, but some of them are there at their own free will.

However Russ was a WWE employee at the time as him and Charlie signed at the same time.

starfox8500
06-28-2007, 09:23 PM
Vince owned her, when he went, "Did you hear me say that?"

YOUR Hero
06-28-2007, 09:49 PM
Not to pick on Vince, because he's right. 5 have died whilst under contract to the WWE, but come on, many more have died due to the same reasons that one can argue are a direct result of the pressures put on them and their bodies and minds because of the WWE.

Kris P Lettus
06-29-2007, 02:46 PM
Yeah, but he's never going to admit that.. He should sell it just like the NFL does.. Hazard of the job..