Wrestling's Passed Away

Owen Hart is one of the most recent completely avoidable deaths in the "sport"...




Eddie Guerrero is still so vividly remembered...
(Though not as tragic as Chris Benoit - yes, that is Benoit wearing the Guerrero t-shirt that read "I'm Your Papi", not-so-subtly stealing from the Red Sox' Big Papi, David Ortiz...)




Art Barr was another little-known wrestler who died to little fanfare (same year as his good buddy Eddie Guerrero.)
On the clip above, he gets transformed into "Beetlejuice", a "wrestler to remember", by expert in stylization and characterization, Rowdy Roddy Piper...
Art Barr's career as Beetlejuice was as short-lived as Louie Spicolli's, The Wall's or Crash Holly's... Art Barr died of a drug overdose.




Wrestling is a very hazardous "sport" -
people get really hurt...

People really die.

And to see Vince McMahon fake his own death most recently
(on the June 11th 2007 edition of RAW)
and then give himself "memorial editions" of SMACKDOWN and ECW
similar to those that Eddie Guerrero, Owen Hart and others had...
well... It invalidates all the preceding ones
It cheapens the eulogies
It disrespects those wrestlers who really died
and their loved ones
who were foolish enough to be "touched"
by McMahon's honoring their deceased...

I think, in particular, of Vickie Guerrero
Eddie's widow
whose loss is so recent
and who was asked
no - make that mandatorily required
to be a part of the bogus memorial for McMahon


A whole new low
for the man who has sunk low on so many occasions before...





And to add to the bad taste this all leaves in the purist's
as in the traditionalist's mouth
ANOTHER DEATH IN WRESTLING OCCURRED
during this burgeoning silliest of all silly storylines
That of SENSATIONAL (aka Sensuous aka Sister) SHERRI MARTEL
And what does the WWE WEBMASTER do?
Why, he does as his boss tells him to do, of course!
He puts the very real sad news near the bottom of the page...
And keeps on top the bogus memorial announcement
(which will warrant a second 3-hour edition of RAW in 3 weeks)
and the appointment of a bogus Federal investigator
portrayed by some third-rate actor
(The only good things about this silly plotline really:
it gives work to some starving, unsuspecting, poor actor
and we get to see NO MORE of Vinnie Mac's hogging the spotlight
away from his so-called "superstars"...)

REST IN PEACE, SHERRI (1959-2007)




Maybe the Chris-Nancy-Daniel Benoit tragedy taught McMahon his lesson.

Some people never learn though...