When a wrestler or wrestling personality dies, they leave a part of their soul etched deep into the wrestling community. It’s more than just what they did for the company they took part in; it’s who they were as a person, how they made us feel, how each time they appeared on our screens we were glued, hanging off of every word. Childhoods were made with them, memories were forged, we loved them, admired them and wanted them to succeed in everything that they did. They were heroes.
Wrestlers like Dusty Rhodes leave a deep imprint in our hearts, he was a father figure to all those within NXT, he took them under his wing and they were his babies. Randy “Macho Man” Savage, Mr Perfect, Owen Hart and Brian Pillman were some of the best wrestlers within WWE, they inspired a whole new generation to lace up wrestling boots and become heroes of their own. Bobby Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon were the voices of many a childhood as they did play by play commentary.
Chyna was easily the biggest pioneer in a company where women hardly mattered for more than sexual attention, Luna Vachon played an integral part in wanting to be something huge in WWE and of course who can forget the first lady of the then WWF – Miss Elizabeth, a woman who was a wonderful valet to Macho Man and had a hand in his success.
Names like The British Bulldog, Eddie Guerrero, “Rowdy” Roddy Piper and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart will forever be immortalised, as they thundered through professional wrestling and created some of the best wrestling that still holds up today. A lot of deaths are extremely heartbreaking in how the wrestler passed, from Owen Hart dying after falling from a zipline into to ring, to the heinous murder of Bruiser Brody.
Addiction is something else that’s taken lives and a shocking number have been extremely early in a wrestlers life or even more cruelly, after they’d actually quit their addiction. The impact deceased wrestlers and wrestling personalities on people’s lives is deep, they inserted themselves into our hearts and they will never be forgotten.
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