Rate The Wrestler - Day 13 - Brian Pillman

[BigDaddyCool]

7

He never did shit for me. Now bear in mind that when I first started watching wrestling, it was just right before he died, and it was when he was fueding with Golddust and that was complete crap. Then he died, and those are some of my ealiest memories of Pillman. But since then, I have seen and read a good deal about his glory days. They were alright, but nothing out of the ordinary. Also, anyone who dies of an overdose pisses me off. But he didn't completely suck, so I give him a 7.

[Took]

Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool 7 He never did shit for me. Now bear in mind that when I first started watching wrestling, it was just right before he died, and it was when he was fueding with Golddust and that was complete crap. Then he died, and those are some of my ealiest memories of Pillman. But since then, I have seen and read a good deal about his glory days. They were alright, but nothing out of the ordinary. Also, anyone who dies of an overdose pisses me off. But he didn't completely suck, so I give him a 7.

He didn't die of an overdose. Genetic heart disease which probably would have got to him later in life, but he was taking pain killers, and that aggravated it. He knew nothing of it. He also didn't know that his wife was carrying their newest child. She never got that chance to tell him.

[Loose Cannon]

Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool 7 He never did shit for me. Now bear in mind that when I first started watching wrestling, it was just right before he died, and it was when he was fueding with Golddust and that was complete crap. Then he died, and those are some of my ealiest memories of Pillman. But since then, I have seen and read a good deal about his glory days. They were alright, but nothing out of the ordinary. Also, anyone who dies of an overdose pisses me off. But he didn't completely suck, so I give him a 7.

What exactly have you seen? Nothing out of the ordinary? I don't know how you can call the "Loose Cannon" chracter something ordinary. He conned the boys in the back, the writers, the fans, the front office, his freinds. He conned everyone for a while there. If that character wasn't unordinary in wrestling for that time, I don't know what was. I don't know if watching bits and pieces of him does justice. Maybe for this early matches in WCW it might cause he really had no character, but for his Hollywood Blondes-Loose Cannon days, you have to see everything.

Yeah, and he had a heart disease, which I should of mentioned. Kind of like what Darryl Kile of the St. Loius Cardinals died from. Both of there fathers died from a heart attack at a young age too. With Pillman a combination of pain killers and stress just increased the risk even more.