Former ECW Champion passes away
 

Holy shit! WTF?

RIP Mike Awesome

What the fuck?

:'( RIP, man.

OH NO! :'(

Shit. That sucks. I really liked Awesome! :(

I watched One Night Stand just a few days ago and his match with Tanaka was amazing.

R.I.P. :(

And 41?! WTF?!

First Bam Bam
Now Mike Awesome

Death comes in 3's, so there is probably going to be another one coming unfortunately.

Dunno if this is reliable or anything, but there is a line at the bottom of his page on Wikipedia that says:

"im not sure if it was today feb 18 or yesterday the 17 mike took his own life. rip mike".

Kinda sucks if he committed suicide.

This was just released so there is no way some troll from Wikipedia will know what happened. Stop trying to stir stuff up.

He wasn't trying to stir anything up you dong. He was reporting on something he saw on wiki.

RIP :(

Come on, he saw it on Wikipedia. That's hardly trustworthy.

Shit, RIP, its always weird when you hear about someone passing away at that age.

Goddamn it... Rest in Peace, Awesome.

R.I.P. Mike Awesome

That's probably why he said "I don't know if this is reliable or not..." at the beginning of his post.

Fuck

It has now been confirmed on WWE.com :'(

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/mikeawesomepasses

Yeah dude, like Spilchuk said, I'm not stiring shit up. Read my post properly.

Shit, the deaths are getting younger and younger. Bam Bam was 45, Awesome was 42. RIP

:( :( :(
RIP

Then why even post it?

Huh?

If he didn't think it was reliable, then why post it? I mean it's not like it's some meaningless rumor of "Cena's going to turn heel tonight!" This involves a man's life, it's one of those things you don't discuss unless you get it from someplace reliable.

Goddamn. What the hell is going around nowadays.

Awesome had the potential to be huge.

R.I.P. Mike :'(

Man. I didn't see much of his work but what I did see was, well, Awesome. I need to go find some of his stuff.

RIP :'(

<font color=goldenrod>Fucking hell

RIP</font> :(

wow, unbelievable

One of our sorry excuses of a reporter just posted this.

Rammstein was right.

Mike Awesome had been working as a realtor at Coldwell Banker in the Tampa area at the time of his death.

WWE has posted an article about Awesome's passing. WWE is saddened by news of the passing of Mike Alfonso, better known to wrestling fans as Mike Awesome. He was 42. Mike Awesome's first major exposure came overseas, where he became one of the Japan's top stars. Awesome would eventually become a star and champion in America while wrestling for Extreme Championship Wrestling. Following his successful run in ECW, Awesome spent time working in WCW and later WWE before retiring to his native Tampa, Florida. While in ECW, Awesome was a two-time World Champion and Tag Team Champion. His matches with Masato Tanaka, including a show-stealer at One Night Stand in 2005 were among the most memorable in ECW history.

As noted earlier, friends coming to pick him up from his Tampa home discovered his body Saturday night at about 10:30 pm. He was found hanging, and is believed a suicide.

You know, I've been sadden and upset at hearing of all these wrestlers passing on, but this is the first one I actually started cursing at. Guy was one of my favorite from ECW and even WCW. Seriously, what the fuck is with all these wrestlers fucking dieing.

I think you can easily name 20 wrestlers who have died in the last few years below the age of 50...that's just wrong.

He was found hanging. Shit.

:( R.I.P. Mike

Shut up you childish idiot.


RIP, Mike Awesome

R.I.P. Mike

Who had him in their pool?

Too soon?

Goddamn. RIP. Another one of the best big men in the business :(

Fuck, he did commit suicide :(

Damn, Mike, were things really that bad? R.I.P.

Shit! Why?

Fucking why?

Sadly enough, my first instinct was to credit this to drugs, as almost all wrestling deaths seem to ultimately stem from these days (as in drugs ended up catching up to the guy, or the guy literally just OD'd).

Now it appears that he hung himself. Which is shocking to me, since I can't think of why he'd do that. Obviously, he had personal issues. RIP Mike Awesome.

RIP Mike Awesome