Deaths-Kinda Benoit Related

[Mike Giggs' Munchies]

Taken straight out of The Sun newspaper.

Wrestler Hanged

An American wrestler who idolosed Chris Benoit has killed himself in an apparent copycat suicide.

James Fawcett, 31, who fought as Devil Bhudakhan in the Pittsburgh area, hanged himself.

Benoit, 40, was found hanged last month after killing his wife and son.

The latest tragedy came as wrestling was still reeling from another shock death. Moondog Nathan, 37, who worked on the independent circuit in the south, died this month of a reported heart attack.

A total of 107 U.S. wrestlers under 45 have now died in the past decade.

[Mr. Old School™]

That's friggin' insane. 107?! Somebody's got to do something about that because that toll is only going to continue to grow at this rate.

[slappy]

If he did it, because Benoit killed himself, good riddance, we don't need crazy people like that here anyways.

[slappy]

johnnythunder22 said:

That's friggin' insane. 107?! Somebody's got to do something about that because that toll is only going to continue to grow at this rate.

Regular people are dying at larger rates. Somebody investigate.

[gin]

girl its gettin late and you can stay the night
but you can dip out anytime whenever
i can call a cab i aint tryna stress ya
im looking for the one with the glass slippa

baby girl you can be my cinderella (ella ella eh eh eh)

[classicfan]

Wow, 107 is awful high.

[TooShort4]

The news about Bhudakhan is old though, i posted a thread about that like 2 weeks ago, and its just in a paper? But damn, 107 is insane.

[Focalin]

there's no way he did it because of benoit. Jimmy wasn't like that. Talking to him and how much he loved his kids gives me the illusion that he just went into severe depression and did it.

[heartbreakkid2k3]

107 deaths in the past decade?!?! Say it ain't so!

People really need to break things like this down into groups (suicide, car crash, natural causes, etc.), because reporting it like that is just sensationalizing it.

And, as Slappy said, more everyday people are dying at faster rates. Why are we doing nothing to stop that?

[Deleted]

107 deaths in 10 yrs.

Sounds bad, but is it really? How many pro wrestlers have there been in the past 10 years? That number is needed in order to figure out the percentage of deaths. It could be high or low. The missing variable makes that information meaningless.

Who knows how many pro baseball/football/hockey/soccer/tennis/ect. ect. players have died in the past ten years? It sounds bad, but its just a number without any other information therefore it could end up not being as remarkable as people are making it out to be.

[partyboi]

Benoit is a waste and i'm glad he's dead any talent that would deside to do such a crime and awful thing as take the life of his own family should rot

[Hulkamaniac]

Well, someone ought to investigate the porn industry. The deaths there have got to be as high. And what about rock and roll?

[Gussy]

johnnythunder22 said:

That's friggin' insane. 107?! Somebody's got to do something about that because that toll is only going to continue to grow at this rate.

Nobody will be able to do anything because is congress going to attack every backyard fed, indy promotion and any wrestling promotion out there? no..yea theres 107 wrestlers dead but how many of those worked for wwe..half of those didnt..you cant blame NFL for a college football death right? so why start pointing the finger on wwe. If Michael Jordan died for drug use, they wouldnt blame the NBA because hes not under contract with them...only around 6 people died while under contract with wwe...the rest probably worked for wwe at one point or another but it doesnt make vince mcmahon/wwe responsible for their life deamons and mistakes they do. Nobody points the finger at the nfl/nba/mlb when a former player dies at young age due to steriod/drug abuse related things.