RIP Mike Awesome

[Beantown]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

Damn, this is horrible. He was always fun to watch when he was wrestling Masato or Spike. RIP.

[CaptainZombie]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

Awesome had zero charisma, was a total a-hole, stabbed Paul in the back... But the matches he had with Masato Tanaka and Spike Dudley in the dying years of ECW was some of the best during that era. The guy was a total emabrassment in WCW -- thanks mainly to his inability to work the mic at all -- but still provided one of my most memorable moments when he threw Kanyon off the three-tiered cage in the infamous Arquette/Jarrett/DDP match.

How many wrestlers have to die before this becomes the big deal that it should already be? Yeah, VKM has done his part with his *cough* "Wellness Plan" but that's only a start. He's only protecting his own commodities, and given the treatment dealt out to Sabu and Van Dam when they were busted with drugs last year, even then he's not being strict about it.

Something simply has to be done here.

EDIT: Didn't see Chief's reply [concering it being a suicide] until after I posted this. If that is the case, then my sincerest condolences go out to his family. Suicide is some deep ****, and I really feel for whatever Mike was going through to have to take his own life.

I don't know what guys like VKM can do for retired wrestlers once their done with the sport. Unless they come up with another program for retired wrestlers so they could get their lives back on track once done with the sport. This would require something larger.

[highheatkingsb]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

Never forget the night Mike Awesome won the ECW title then the night he came to WCW. I seen him wrestle 4 times in person, the man was a monster up close. RIP Mike.

[BGarrett7]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

I don't know what guys like VKM can do for retired wrestlers once their done with the sport. Unless they come up with another program for retired wrestlers so they could get their lives back on track once done with the sport. This would require something larger.

I don't know if anything can be done about the current batch of recently retired, but remember, today's wrestlers will someday be the recently retired, too. There needs to be some sort of program in place to prepare these guys for their life after their careers have come to an end.

Then again, if these wrestlers don't change their lives after seeing dozens of their friends and family die every year, what could anyone else possibly do to help them?

[JohnDoe8865]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

RIP Mike Awesome. One of the best big men in the modern era.

[gritzblitz56]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

RIP

My favorite gimmick of his was the "Fat Chick Thrilla"

[countryboy]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

RIP Mike

[rockchisler]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

new info on Mike Awesomes suicide...

http://www.wrestlezone.com/article.php?articleid=185141259

[CaptainZombie]

Re: RIP Mike Awesome

new info on Mike Awesomes suicide...
http://www.wrestlezone.com/article.p...leid=185141259

Crazy......they mention this now due to Benoit's situation, but why didn't they mention it before.