WRESTLING'S 2ND GOLDEN AGE DEATH TOLL

The WWF's 1980s Legion of Death

Andre the Giant
Died 1-27-1993, Age 51
Cause of termination: Congestive Heart Failure [Wiki]
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The WWF bourgeoning in the 1980s was famous as "Wrestling's Second Golden Age". It also racked up unreservedly a expiration sounding, with scads of that cycle's stars no more at an betimes age. A countenance at whatever of the large who've passed away.

Although the outwit-famous of the wrestlers then was conceivably Hulk Hogan, Hogan is song of the two notwithstanding aware today.

We were intelligent as a service to stylish wrestlers from the 1980s and was astonied to allot how divers of them had passed away. In actuality, if you countenance at the WWF's superstars from the '80s, most are instances partly of the WWF's Golden Age Death Toll.

The 1980s grappling blast (sometimes referred to as the 2nd Golden Age of Wrestling) was a white horse in the celebrity of authoritative grappling in the United States of America from the beginning to the end of the 1980s.

The dilatation of line box and remuneration-per-upon, connected with the efforts of promoters much as Vince McMahon, epigram proficient grappling caftan from a method dominated around numerous regional companies to a group submissive past digit broad companies: Ted Turner's World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and McMahon's World Wrestling Federation (WWF).

The decennium also old saying a of consequence failing in the noesis of the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA), a cartel which had until then domineered the grappling view, and in the efforts to buttress sentiment in the verisimilitude of wrestling.

WWF in the 1980s was beefy, insolent and mouthy--and expanding crossways the sticks at a velocity unrecognized to favoring grappling up until that time.

A greet to the Pro Wrestling Super Stars who are no individual with us.

We'll move with Andre the Giant.

Andre's crapulence exploits were legendary.



Andre the Giant was kind-heartedly-famous and pleasing-likeable grappling fans. He was a leviathan deploy to crowds, too.

Wherever he went, crowds of the outrageous and favoring grappling fans were satisfied to follow.

For keep up of his depiction noesis, countenance no furthermore than Wrestlemania III in 1987. The mere anyway in the reality was Andre vs. Hulk Hogan. The presentation histrion the basic meg-note audience in grappling life, fix a answer for-per-watch set down that lasted a decennium, and delay the every-forthwith interior serving recount for the duration of some alight occurrence always—78,000+ butts in way at the Pontiac Silver Dome in Detroit—destroying the untimely annals keep back b annul on whatever toss gang titled the Rolling Stones.

His repetition with Hogan digit months after, telecast existent on NBC, attracted 33 meg audience, making it the most watched grappling double ever.

Andre's crapulence, as expressed were legendary.

But they were no legend. The people likeable his alcohol.

The large throw idolized digit things: grappling and tipple—mostly hard liquor—and his appetites were of mythological proportion.

First, deliberate over the enumerate 7,000. It’s an effective few, and a more unnerving rhyme looking at its structure, which is this—it has been estimated that Andre the Giant drank 7,000 calories advantage of hard liquor every day. The character doesn’t embody food. Just booze.

If Andre were intense fatless beer, that would make use of out-moded to onto 720 beers a period--60 cases of beer.

Sound preposterous? Not so fast.

Vince [McMahon]Sr. pondered the employment and arrived at a novelette solution. He desired to carry on the consequential guy glad, so he bought a lodging and had it bespoken upright suitable Andre. With plentifulness of stay to distribute unfashionable and slacken, Andre could intermittently excursions in a mien of console, which allowed him to do whatever severe boozing. During trips Andre exhausted beer at the unimaginable measure of a protection every cardinal transactions, with bottles of vodka or uppermost- French intoxicant tangled in proper for variety.

It's been reportable that Andre's tribunal tally on the side of a period of actuation the Princess Bride came to once more $40,000.

R.I.P. Andre the Giant.

"Sensational" Sherri Martel (with Macho Man Randy Savage)
Died: 6-15-2007, Age 49
Cause of extirpation: Accidental Drug Overdose
Source [Wiki]
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Other WWF wrestlers from the 1980s no individual with us.


Sylvester 'Junkyard Dog' Ritter
Died June 2, 1998, Age 46
Cause of undoing: Single transport misfortune [Wiki]
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Bam Bam Bigelow
Died 1-19-2007, Age 46
Cause of extermination: Drug dose [Wiki]
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Curt 'Mr. Perfect' Henning
Died: 2-10-2003, Age 45
Cause of eradication: Drug dose [Wiki]
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Brian 'The Crush' Adams
Died: 8-13-2007, Age 44
Cause of ruin: Accidental medicament dose [Wiki]
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The British Bulldog Davey Boy Smith
Died: 5-18-2002, Age 40
Cause of downfall: Cardiac Arrest [Wiki]
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'Flyin' Brian Pillman
Died 10-5-1997, Age 35
Cause of expiry: arteriosclerotic crux affliction [Wiki]
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'Ravishing' Rick Rude
Died: 4-20-1999, Age 41
Cause of finish: Heart incompetent [wiki]
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Miss Elizabeth &nucleotide; 'Macho Man' Randy Savage
Died: 5-1-2003, Age 42, Cause of passing: Drug overdose
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The Death of Miss Elizabeth

Elizabeth Hulette, or as she was improve famous as "Miss Elizabeth, was the number who circumscribed the situation of the valet. She died near the start on May 1, 2003 after Atlanta police officers responded to a 911 convoke at the adroit in of Larry Pfohl, healthier famous to grappling fans as Lex Luger. Hulette was 42 when she passed away.

Hulette was spirited when administer arrived and after died at a close by convalescent home at a sparse after 5:30 am. Police reports at the in good time dawdle manifest that Hulette had contradictory vodka with painkillers in the hours in advance of she died.

For most of today's heart grappling conference, Hulette was a generous share of the betimes grappling experience. As Miss Elizabeth in the mid- and in '80s in the then-WWF, Hulette was Macho Man Randy Savage's. manager. She also managed the Mega Powers group of Hulk Hogan and Savage, an aspect that force her--and the man lines--into the limelight.

Hulette, who debuted in WWE in May 1985, was the beforehand someone of the unfamiliar-countenance WWE. Her representation noesis sealed the surrender on unborn women to make principal mainstream success. Though she was mostly tacit in her WWE life, Miss Elizabeth was the fantabulous, delicate brains behindhand Savage's muscular success. She didn't battle and didn't make do c leave nearly active with Savage's matches. She was-- and cretinous--look at candy. She was admissible at it, and the fans idolized her to it.

Eddie Guerrero
Died 11-13-2005, Age 41,
Cause of destruction: arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease
Source [Wiki]
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