These people are dead?

Er, where are you getting this from exactly? A brief search shows that Dwight Schultz (Murdock from the A-Team) is still alive.
 
Dwight Schultz, who played Capt Murdock in the A-team, is very much alive. He's only 58 years old, actually. He does voice-over work now, for games and the occasional anime/cartoon. He was the old man at the Barbarois in Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. Me and my friends freaked when we saw his name in the credits. :lol:
Here's his page on IMDB: http://imdb.com/name/nm0776239/

A quick Google search tells me that Curtis Michael Hennig (aka Mr. Perfect) died on February 10, 2003, appearantly from a heart attack. Suprise! Looks like drugs were the culprit. :(
 
[quote name='Zman310']Er, where are you getting this from exactly? A brief search shows that Dwight Schultz (Murdock from the A-Team) is still alive.[/QUOTE]

Ya, he also was on Star Trek: TNG and that was what, about 10 yrs ago?
 
[quote name='jaykrue']Ya, he also was on Star Trek: TNG and that was what, about 10 yrs ago?[/QUOTE]

And ST: Voyager as well, even more recently.
 
Holy shit Murdock does crazzzy video game voice overs look at how many he's done, did not know that. Anyway murdock rules. And those bright pastel color overall spandex toghts that Mr. perfect wore were 1980's cooooollll lol. I fucking love it. Tommorrow I'm gonna chew my gum, spit it out and slap it in the air at my boss at work.
 
Those wrestlers, they die early:
British Bulldog
Owen Hart
Yokozuna
Ravishing Rick Rude
Mr. Perfect
Brian Pillman
Louie Spicolli
Renegade
Bobby Duncum, Jr.

myke.
...as Goldberg might say; who's next?
 
That Curt Hennig page is a bunch of shit...

My guess on the next dead wrestler is Jeff Hardy.

1) Look at him.

2) It would continue Matt Hardy's streak of horrible luck. He must have led a bad past life.
 
[quote name='lionheart4life']Don't forget Big Boss Man, he's dead too. I think he was only like 41.[/QUOTE]

Wasn't there some sort of criminal who looked exactly like the Big Boss Man a few years ago? Like a bank robber or something?
 
[quote name='neocisco']Road Warrior Hawk is dead too.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I was about to add that one.

Louie Spicoli
Louie Spicoli has taken a large quantity of the drug Soma and large quantities of alcohol. It was rumored he died of a heart attack but the actual cause of death was suffocation on his own vomit.

Brian Pillman
Brian Pillman died of a heart attack. Even though it's rumored to be caused by use of drugs and alcohol Pillman's death was actually caused by a heart condition that was not detected. He died peacefully in his sleep in his hotel room the day of WWF's Badd Blood ppv.

Junkyard Dog
Sylvester Ritter or as fans know him as Junkyard Dog died after falling asleep while driving his car and hitting a tree. He had just attended his daughter's graduation which is the one thing he said he wanted to do before he died.

Ravishing Rick Rude
Rick Rude died of a heart attack on April 20, 1999. A bottle of prescription pills(for his bad back) was found by his side and it's rumored that he had overdosed on them. He was 40 years old.

The Renegade
The Renegade whose real name is Rick Williams committed suicide by shooting himself in 1999. Williams had been recently released from WCW. When Williams first went to WCW he was given a huge push but soon after he dropped off a WCW television and Williams never could handle it.

Owen Hart
Owen Hart died from falling from the rafters of Kemper Arena in Kansas City on May 23, 1999. It is believed while Owen was about to make his entrance from the roof his Blue Blazer costume got caught in the rigging wires which were being used to lower him. Owen fell over fifty feet and landed in the ring. He died of critical shock trauma caused by the impact of the fall.

A separate page will be dedicated to Owen Hart's career in the faq in the upcoming months.

"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig
Curt Hennig was found dead in his hotel room on February 10th, 2003 in Tampa, Florida. Currently, details surrounding the death are not known at this time but anything alcohol or drug related isn't expected to be the cause of the death.

Miss Elizabeth
On May 1, 2003, Elizabeth Huelette was at Lex Luger's home when she passed away. Huelette had some alcohol to drink after she had taken pills. The official cause of death was a drug overdose. Elizabeth was 42 years old.

Yokozuna
October 22, 2000 marks the day "Yokozuna" (Real Name: Rodney Anoia) passed away due to a heart attack. Anoia weighed in at almost 600 pounds at the time of his death. He was 34 years old.

The British Bulldog
Davey Boy Smith, better known to many as "The British Bulldog" passed away on May 17, 2002. Smith suffered a heart attack and was only 39 years old at the time of his death.

The Sheik
The Original Sheik, Ed Farahat passed away on January 18, 2003. Sheik was the trainer of both Rob Van Dam and Sabu. He died from natural causes.

"Classie" Freddie Blassie
At the age of 85, wrestling legend Freddie Blassie died from natural causes. Up until the year of his death, Blassie made occasional appearances on WWE TV, and also released a book before his death. The date of Blassie's death was June 2, 2003.

Stu Hart
The patriarch of the Hart family, another wrestling legend Stu Hart died on October 16, 2003 after battling a lengthy illness of pneumonia. Hart made a monumental impact on wrestling in Canada, and trained several wrestlers in the infamous "dungeon." All of Hart's son's got into wrestling, and all of his daughters ended up marrying wrestlers. Stu was 88 years old at the time of his passing.

Road Warrior Hawk
On October 19, 2003, at the age of 46, Micheal Hegstrand died of a heart attack. Hegstrand was moving into a new house with his wife, and went to rest after complaining about chest pains. Hegstrand never woke up.
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And yeah, Big Bossman recently died as well.

//edit: Crash Holly is dead as well.

NAVARRE - Santa Rosa County Special Investigators are awaiting a toxicology report for the official cause of death of former WWE Hardcore Champion Crash Holly (Michael Lockwood).

Holly, who also wrestled under the aliases of Mad Mikey (NWA/TNA) and Erin O’Grady in the APW before joining the WWE, was found dead by Santa Rosa County Deputies on Nov. 6.

Deputies were dispatched to the home of Holly’s friend and current WWE wrestler Steven Richards after they received a call from Connecticut State Trooper Holsterom, a friend of Crash.

Holsterom called law enforcement officials on Nov. 6 to check on Holly’s welfare after describing him as depressed on the telephone the night before.

After responding to the residence and finding no one at home, Dep. Robert Arthur reported back to Trooper Holsterom that after knocking, ringing the doorbell and checking all of the doors and windows, he was unable to get any response.

Trooper Holsterom then contacted Santa Rosa County Realtor James Holland, who listed the Richards house and had him get in touch with Deputy Arthur to give him access to the home. Holland opened the home for Deputy Arthur, who found Holly laying face down in the kitchen partially clothed.

Holly, 32, was pronounced dead at 2:37 p.m. on Thursday and is survived by his wife and daughter. Holly had a pool of vomit and blood around his face and rigor had set in the body by the time it was discovered.

Deputy Arthur found an open fifth of Southern Comfort on the kitchen counter and an empty pill bottle. Authorities found the bottle to have contained 350 mg capsules of Carisoprodol, which is a generic medication for Soma.

The prescription for the generic Soma was issued on Nov. 4 with 90 capsules and Holly was prescribed three pills per day, but was found to be empty when officers arrived.

Dr. Andrea Minyard, with the District 1 Florida Medical Examiners Office in Pensacola, conducted an autopsy on Nov. 7 and found no evidence of bruising or other injuries, according to Santa Rosa Crime Scene Technician Charlie Peters. Dr. Minyard believed the pending toxicology report would reveal the cause of death.

Normally the results of a toxicology report are returned in 12 to 14 weeks according to the District 1 Medical Examiners office.

During a search of the scene, Deputies of the Santa Rosa County Crime Scene Investigations Unit found copy of separation and property agreement forms from Rowan County, N.C., a prescription bottle that contained Effexor 75 mg tablets and a cell phone.

The last number called by Holly was that of Richards, the owner of the residence in which Holley’s body was found, who deputies identified as Mike Manna, on Nov. 5 at 12:54 p.m. Further investigation of the house led deputies to a computer, which was searched for the possibility of a note or some indication as to why Holly died.

In the garage officers found a green Ford Explorer, which contained a Jansport backpack. Inside the backpack deputies found money, paperwork from Children and Family Services, Santa Rosa County Avalon Center DUI class papers and a prescription. A briefcase in the vehicle contained divorce papers.

Holly was arrested by a Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Deputy on Oct. 4 and charged with driving under the influence as well as drug possession, according to Santa Rosa County Public Information Deputy Jerry Henderson.

Holly, who was living in Richards home as it was on the market, had previously joked about being Richards ’housewife’, taking care of the house and garden, while he was working for the WWE during a Wrestling Online.com interview in August. The idea for the Mad Mikey led to another joke during the interview by Lockwood. "If you lived with Stevie Richards, you'd be mad too!"

Before joining the NWA/TNA, one of Holly’s last matches was a win over Funaki on WWE Velocity on April 19. Holly, whose character was created by Vince Russo, was introduced as the cousin of Bob ‘Hardcore’ Holly to wrestling fans in 1999 and was the first WWE Hardcore Champion to defend his title under the 24/7 rule after defeating Test before the division was later done away with.

Crash, who held the hardcore title around 22 different times also held the WWE Tag Team, European and Light Heavyweight titles. He was also part of WrestleMania 2000 when he put the title up in a hardcore battle royal.

During his career Crash and his cousin Bob ‘Hardcore’ Holly tried to do battle with the so-called super heavyweights of wrestling. To promote this era Crash and Bob would use scales to see if their opponents measured up to their standard of competition, which was 6-foot 6-inches and 400 pounds. If the opponents didn’t measure up they might refuse to wrestle stating it was a waste of time.

Crash was reported to be opening a wrestling school in Salisbury, N.C. in 2002
Other former WWE Wrestlers or those connected with the sport to have recently passed away were Stu Hart, Mike Hegstrand (Road Warrior Hawk), Mr. Perfect Curt Henning, Louie Spicolli, Ms. Elizabeth and Classy Freddie Blassie.

Lockwood’s (Crash) wrestling career started under the direction of Roland Alexander’s school, where the WWE and Jim Cornette noticed him on a tape wrestling Vic Grimes.
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This topic is depressing... I don't wanna know how many of my old favorite wrestlers are dead :cry:

On a lighter note- as for who's next... any Harts left? ;)
 
[quote name='FriskyTanuki']Crash Holly's dead, too.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I posted that.

The only Hart left is Bret.. I think. And Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, though I don't think he counts.
 
[quote name='neocisco']It's only a matter of time before you can add Lex Luger's name to the list.[/QUOTE]

Yep. Man, I didn't know some of these were dead. Thanks for the heads up guys. Bummer.
 
"Professional athletes are in the same business as prostitutes: Destroying their bodies for the pleasure of strangers."

Ian Shoales.
 
[quote name='Scorch']Yeah, I posted that.

The only Hart left is Bret.. I think. And Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, though I don't think he counts.[/QUOTE]

The Anvil does count. He is Bret's brother-in-law just like the British Bulldog was.
 
[quote name='neocisco']It's only a matter of time before you can add Lex Luger's name to the list.[/QUOTE]

I got a feeling that it will be due to a drug overdose with his death. From the sounds of it, he's been getting a few DUIs lately too.
 
[quote name='supermariomelee']I got a feeling that it will be due to a drug overdose with his death. From the sounds of it, he's been getting a few DUIs lately too.[/QUOTE]

His latest was in my town.
 
I knew about most of those wrestling deaths, but did not know "The Wall" had died. I use to worry about Scott Hall but he seems to have gotten his act together in the last couple years.
 
How has Droz been doing since D'Lo crippled him? For the first month or two that's all the (at the time) WWF talked about and then its like they forgot about him or didn't care anymore.
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']How has Droz been doing since D'Lo crippled him? For the first month or two that's all the (at the time) WWF talked about and then its like they forgot about him or didn't care anymore.[/QUOTE]

Droz was writing some column on WWE.com for a while. He still might be.

Droz's name still comes up on wrestling boards... because some new wrestler was afraid to shake his hand... so Undertaker allegedly beat him up, and he was released soon after.
 
[quote name='onikage']I knew about most of those wrestling deaths, but did not know "The Wall" had died. I use to worry about Scott Hall but he seems to have gotten his act together in the last couple years.[/QUOTE]

Scott is still a mess, which is sad. He was taken off TNA because he still has drinking issues.
 
[quote name='guyver2077']the wall dies? are you talking about wcw the wall? the same person who was part of the new church in tna?[/QUOTE]

Yes. He was Malice in TNA. He fought Ken Shamrock for the World Title in the 1st week of TNA... that's all I remember about him there. ;)
 
[quote name='Lina']Droz was writing some column on WWE.com for a while. He still might be.[/QUOTE]

Plus check the Byte This show on WWE.com, he does a phone in session every week.
 
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