Dead Wrestlers: Leaving it all in the ring

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THE DEATHS

Like the giant elephant in the corner of the room, it seems people just don’t want to acknowledge why these wrestlers are dying. Certainly, organizations like WWE have a reason to ignore the facts — it hurts their bottom line. Negative press is something Vince McMahon and company just don’t want.

It’s not like these people are dying of natural causes, here. We’re talking heart attacks or other enlarged heart issues. How, pray tell, does a person who was at one point in peak physical condition, develop an enlarged heart? Drug abuse, of course.

• Ultimate Warrior – Heart attack
• Big Daddy V – Heart attack
• Doink the Clown – Drug overdose
• Randy Savage – Heart attack
• Luna Vachon – Drug overdose
• Lance Cade – Heart failure
• Chris Kanyon – Suicide
• Umaga – Heart attack
• Test – Drug overdose
• Brian Adams – Drug overdose
• Chris Benoit – Suicide
• Sherri Martel – Drug overdose
• Mike Awesome – Suicide
• Bam Bam Bigelow – Drug overdose
• Eddie Guerrero – Heart failure
• Big Bossman – Heart failure

That’s just a sampling of the wrestlers who have died over the last decade of heart issues, drug overdoses or suicide.