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(TMZ) Sad Umaga has a match with the Undertaker. Not that undertaker. The real one   (tmz.com) divider line 148
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2009-12-04 07:18:23 PM
One of the most underrated wrestlers in recent memory. Dude took a doomed-to-fail gimmick and convinced everybody a 300-pound man shouldn't be able to move that fast.

Damn shame this story has to repeat itself every nine months.
 
2009-12-04 07:47:31 PM
Mike_LowELL: One of the most underrated wrestlers in recent memory. Dude took a doomed-to-fail gimmick and convinced everybody a 300-pound man shouldn't be able to move that fast.

Damn shame this story has to repeat itself every nine months.


Do I smell wrestler death pool thread? I do, okay. Looks over both TNA and WWE rosters and says the next one to go is...Mark Henry in the next year.
 
2009-12-04 10:01:19 PM
36. Damn, that business just sucks the life out of you.
 
2009-12-04 11:00:03 PM
Mentat: Damn, that business just sucks the life out of you.

My thoughts exactly. Cripes...
 
2009-12-04 11:31:08 PM
Mentat: 36. Damn, that business just sucks the life out of you.

The business doesn't suck the life out of them, the massive amounts of steroids and other drugs do.
 
2009-12-04 11:35:25 PM
z.about.com

Clearly steroids.
 
2009-12-04 11:35:32 PM
Mike_LowELL: One of the most underrated wrestlers in recent memory. Dude took a doomed-to-fail gimmick and convinced everybody a 300-pound man shouldn't be able to move that fast.

Damn shame this story has to repeat itself every nine months.


The fark?

Umaga was never ever a top tier wrestler. He never got any sort of heat. He was your typical McMahon pushed-to-the-moon with no reaction guy.

He did drugs, got suspended, got let go. He's Jeff Hardy minus talent + 300 pounds.
 
2009-12-04 11:39:54 PM
I'm glad I don't even bother to watch wrestling anymore, since sooner rather than later all my favorites will be dead.

/Only 1 of my 3 favorite wrestlers ever is still alive
//Jericho, Benoit, Guerrero for anyone that cares.
 
2009-12-04 11:40:12 PM
MattyFridays: Mike_LowELL: One of the most underrated wrestlers in recent memory. Dude took a doomed-to-fail gimmick and convinced everybody a 300-pound man shouldn't be able to move that fast.

Damn shame this story has to repeat itself every nine months.

The fark?

Umaga was never ever a top tier wrestler. He never got any sort of heat. He was your typical McMahon pushed-to-the-moon with no reaction guy.

He did drugs, got suspended, got let go. He's Jeff Hardy minus talent + 300 pounds.


Speaking of Jeff Hardy...the one time they met.

Link (new window)
 
2009-12-04 11:43:57 PM
I just spent way too much time the other day reading the wikis on the Von Erichs. I thought they all died before the 90s. Kerry Von Erich was my favorite all time wrestler, but I left wrestling before he did.

//Did watch WCW one football season after MNF. Sting was awesome and the NWO didn't have Hogan yet, IIRC.
 
2009-12-04 11:44:31 PM
Walker: Mentat: 36. Damn, that business just sucks the life out of you.

The business doesn't suck the life out of them, the massive amounts of steroids and other drugs do.


That doesn't help, but it's the constant wear and tear of being on the road almost every day. Chris Benoit's brain was basically swiss cheese when he died.
 
2009-12-04 11:46:17 PM
This is very sad news, he was very talented, especially for his size.
and Speedbts, Hogan started the nWo so I don't think you were watching it before he was in it haha.
 
2009-12-04 11:46:46 PM
Mentat: That doesn't help, but it's the constant wear and tear of being on the road almost every day. Chris Benoit's brain was basically swiss cheese when he died.

All those flying headbutts probably didn't help either.
 
2009-12-04 11:48:41 PM
CK2005: This is very sad news, he was very talented, especially for his size.
and Speedbts, Hogan started the nWo so I don't think you were watching it before he was in it haha.


Hogan wasn't revelaed as NWO until the big PPV. There was at least a month buildup to that match.
 
2009-12-04 11:50:06 PM
And another one bites the dust.

What's the over/under for the WWE going out of business? Eventually one of these guys is going to kick over and McMahon and his wife aren't going to be able to cover it up. Most of their wrestlers are dead, dying, or maimed and it's quite hard to keep blaming the victim when a major company is still hiring these guys to perform. Even if McMahon himself is never charged, the stigma from so many wrestlers dying really young or in really strange ways (murder/suicides to just plain suicides) has to raise a few eyebrows. Even if nobody is charged, the stigma has to kill this industry. How many wrestlers have died in the past few years under some really strange instances?

I'll be generous. Five years if the rate keeps up, and I'm guessing it'll first be a few cable stations dropping the shows before McMahon makes some grandiose proclamation about 'coming back,' then vanishing forever to an island while stories of more wrestlers dying keep surfacing.
 
2009-12-04 11:52:56 PM
When you live hard and you play hard and burn the candle at both ends... in this life, you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you. A lot of people told him that he'd never wrestle again, they said "he's washed up", "he's finished" , "he's a loser", "he's all through". You know what? The only ones gonna tell him when he's through doing his thing, is you people here. You people here... you people here. You're his family.
 
2009-12-04 11:53:09 PM
Rest.In. PEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAACE.
 
2009-12-04 11:54:06 PM
Guess his 3 minutes were up.

/Seriously sad that Jamal died. Had some awesome matches for All Japan and like a previous post said took a doomed gimick and made everyone believe he was a steamroller.
//RIP
 
2009-12-04 11:58:32 PM
Not only did the headline make me LOL, I actually farted. KUDOS! (even if it's rather obvious and I feel stupid for not thinking of it myself when I saw the news 12 hours ago).

Anyway, cocaine=hell of a drug.
 
2009-12-04 11:59:55 PM
The polypenesian caveman has died? Boo hoo.
 
2009-12-05 12:00:18 AM
Guntram Shatterhand: And another one bites the dust.

What's the over/under for the WWE going out of business? Eventually one of these guys is going to kick over and McMahon and his wife aren't going to be able to cover it up. Most of their wrestlers are dead, dying, or maimed and it's quite hard to keep blaming the victim when a major company is still hiring these guys to perform. Even if McMahon himself is never charged, the stigma from so many wrestlers dying really young or in really strange ways (murder/suicides to just plain suicides) has to raise a few eyebrows. Even if nobody is charged, the stigma has to kill this industry. How many wrestlers have died in the past few years under some really strange instances?

I'll be generous. Five years if the rate keeps up, and I'm guessing it'll first be a few cable stations dropping the shows before McMahon makes some grandiose proclamation about 'coming back,' then vanishing forever to an island while stories of more wrestlers dying keep surfacing.


You make it seem like rich performers dying of drug overdoses is something new, or only happens in professional wrestling. What's the over/under on them cancelling rock and roll? I hear these singers keep dying in outrageous circumstances, the recording industry won't be able to cover it up forever.
 
2009-12-05 12:00:25 AM
im suprised scott steiner has lived this long with all the juice he takes.
 
2009-12-05 12:01:02 AM
Hillbilly Jim: CK2005: This is very sad news, he was very talented, especially for his size.
and Speedbts, Hogan started the nWo so I don't think you were watching it before he was in it haha.

Hogan wasn't revelaed as NWO until the big PPV. There was at least a month buildup to that match.


Hogan joined the OUTSIDERS at the PPV, he coined the name for the group that night when he proclaimed Hall, Nash and him as "The New World Order of wrestling"
 
2009-12-05 12:01:33 AM
Sounds like the WWE are trying to put some distance between them and Umanga/Jamal

WWE would like to express its deepest condolences to Mr. Fatu's family, friends and fans on his tragic passing. Mr. Fatu was under contract with WWE at various time periods and most recently performed under the name "Umaga." Mr. Fatu's contract was terminated on June 11, 2009.

http://www.wwe.com/inside/news/12849630
 
2009-12-05 12:01:58 AM
CK2005: This is very sad news, he was very talented, especially for his size.
and Speedbts, Hogan started the nWo so I don't think you were watching it before he was in it haha.


I may be wrong. I just remember it was Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and a guy called Six.
 
2009-12-05 12:02:28 AM
"The WWE would like to express its deepest condolences to Mr. Fatu's family, friends and fans on his tragic passing."

Wait, a wrestler dies, and his family is still alive. Isn't that a little unusual for the WWE?
 
2009-12-05 12:03:00 AM
For a second I thought it was Tana Umaga who died and I was sad. Then I realised that it was a wrestler instead of an All Blacks great.

/Still sad though.
 
2009-12-05 12:03:21 AM
FNAAAAAA , i was so hoping for a umaga vs samoa joe in tna . truly i feel for the fam. sad night indeed.
 
2009-12-05 12:03:43 AM
Found bleeding from the mouth & nose after falling asleep on the couch.
 
2009-12-05 12:05:02 AM
Guntram Shatterhand: How many wrestlers have died in the past few years under some really strange instances?

I'll start a list:

Ravishing Rick Rude (40) (OD)
Mr. Perfect Curt Henning (44) (OD)
Eddie Guerrero (38) (heart failure)
Chris Benoit (40) (murder/suicide)
Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)
Junk Yard Dog (45) (auto accident)
Yokozuna (34) (heart attack)
British Bulldog (39) (heart attack)
Miss Elizabeth (42) (OD)
Gorilla Monsoon (62) (heart failure)
Classy Freddie Blassie (85) (heart failure)
Hawk of Legion of Doom (45) (heart attack)
Crash Holly (32) (OD)
Hercules Hernandes (46) (heart attack)
Big Boss Man (41) (heart attack)
Earthquake (42) (cancer)
Bam Bam Bigelow (45) (OD)
Bad News Brown (63) (heart attack)
Sherri Martel (49) (OD)
Demolition Crush (44) (OD)
fabulous Moolah (84) (complications from surgery)
 
2009-12-05 12:09:59 AM
He was an old guy. It was his time.
 
2009-12-05 12:11:04 AM
www.kowloonrestaurant.com
 
2009-12-05 12:13:04 AM
MattyFridays: The fark?

Umaga was never ever a top tier wrestler. He never got any sort of heat. He was your typical McMahon pushed-to-the-moon with no reaction guy.


His ability to get heat is certainly debatable, but for a guy his size, dude could work. His match with Cena at the Rumble was absolutely phenomenal, a "What do I have to do to keep this guy down?" match that the business has really been missing lately. I dunno, everyone has their own opinion of what makes a wrestler good. Just sucks I have to keep using "was" to describe a group of guys who didn't even get to 50.
 
2009-12-05 12:15:33 AM
What's a n*gga gonna do, he's Samoan.
 
2009-12-05 12:15:43 AM
Mentat:
Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)


You know the drill

\\New Keyboard, etc., etc.,
 
2009-12-05 12:20:13 AM
Mentat 2009-12-05 12:05:02 AM Guntram Shatterhand: How many wrestlers have died in the past few years under some really strange instances? I'll start a list
=======================================

Don't count two elderly 80 year olds in your list, that's just retarded.

Also, you forgot, just off the top of my head:
Died in '07: Mike Awesome 42 (Suicide)
Died in '09: Andrew "Test" Martin 33 (OD)

Owen hart was '99, which isn't very recently, but if we're going back 10 years, might as well add his cousin who died in '02:
British Bulldog [Davey Boy Smith] 39 (Heart Attack)

Died in '03: Road Warrior Hawk 46 (heart attack)

/I think there are a couple more, but I can't remember them
 
2009-12-05 12:21:45 AM
Mentat:
Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)


Uncool... and I hate you for making me laugh at that.
 
2009-12-05 12:25:27 AM
Mentat: Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)

Well played sir.
 
2009-12-05 12:27:28 AM
bubbaprog: Not only did the headline make me LOL, I actually farted. KUDOS! (even if it's rather obvious and I feel stupid for not thinking of it myself when I saw the news 12 hours ago).

Anyway, cocaine=hell of a drug.


I couldn't tell you the last time I laughed until I farted. Was it one of those 'fweep-fweep-fweep' things as you guffawed? I love that.
 
2009-12-05 12:30:23 AM
....and Jake the Snake is still alive and kicking.
 
2009-12-05 12:30:39 AM
www.comics101.com

Later big guy.
 
2009-12-05 12:32:05 AM
Von Wex: Mentat:
Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)

Uncool... and I hate you for making me laugh at that.


Yeah. Seriously.
 
2009-12-05 12:38:12 AM
misterblaine63: When you live hard and you play hard and burn the candle at both ends... in this life, you can lose everything you love, everything that loves you. A lot of people told him that he'd never wrestle again, they said "he's washed up", "he's finished" , "he's a loser", "he's all through". You know what? The only ones gonna tell him when he's through doing his thing, is you people here. You people here... you people here. You're his family.

Came here for a Barton Fink reference. Well done sir.
 
2009-12-05 12:39:52 AM
Mentat: Owen Hart (34) (sudden deceleration syndrome)

I see what you did there.


I guess Austin and The Rock were smart enough to get out of the business when they did.
But I have to know... with the abuse the man has taken, how the hell can Mick Foley even walk, much less still wrestle?
 
2009-12-05 12:40:06 AM
One of the best big men in the last 20 years. His RR match with Cena was VERY unexpectedly incredible. Hard to believe that less than 3 years later, he's dead.
 
2009-12-05 12:41:10 AM
jake3988: Don't count two elderly 80 year olds in your list, that's just retarded.

Well, Stephanie McMahon told Freddie Blassie to die and then a few months later he did. I think that's kind of strange.
 
2009-12-05 12:43:29 AM
From the TMZ comments (validity is debatable, but...)

5. okay guys here are the details: Eddie "umaga" Fatu died in the hospital after suffering a second heart attack while in hospital; he was on life support the entire afternoon and it was his family decision to take him off life support at 6pm eastern time. Umaga was pronounced dead. this unfortunetly is a very sad story and not one that should be a reflective of steriods, as he was suspended from the wwe for marijuana violations, and he refused to go to have to rehab. his name has not come up on any steriods list in the past except the phil austin saga. but apparently the way it all went down as that Umaga wife found him asleep in a chair and blood was coming out of his nose. this is all the info i have right now more to come.

Posted at 7:00PM on Dec 4th 2009 by Brett Hayman

/punctuation added by me, for the sake of readability
 
2009-12-05 12:49:28 AM
Dumb-Ass-Monkey 2009-12-05 12:43:29 AM From the TMZ comments (validity is debatable, but...)
======================================

Thewrestlinganswer.com says the same thing.

Multiple heart attacks. But even they say 'we're not 100% certain'.

They reckon, myself included, it was one of two things:
A) Blood clot related to flying back from Australia (he was just on the Hulkamania tour in Australia)
B) OD (or cumulative effects of) prescription drugs..
I add a C:
C) Clogged arteries due to him being a major fatty.
 
2009-12-05 12:50:37 AM
Mentat: jake3988: Don't count two elderly 80 year olds in your list, that's just retarded.

Well, Stephanie McMahon told Freddie Blassie to die and then a few months later he did. I think that's kind of strange.


I'd risk death to fark her.

Seriously. If I had the chance to fark Stephanie McMahon-Levesque with the chance that Triple-H would be home ANY MINUTE and catch me putting to his wife, I'd still do it with everything I have. I'd put my heart in it. I'd act like it was the last time I'd ever get laid.

And it might be. Triple-H is a farkin' caveman. He'd hurt me bad.

/And it would be Soooooo worth it.
//Oh, too bad about Umaga. Risks of the career and all that...
 
2009-12-05 12:53:20 AM
ZeroCorpse: Mentat: jake3988: Don't count two elderly 80 year olds in your list, that's just retarded.

Well, Stephanie McMahon told Freddie Blassie to die and then a few months later he did. I think that's kind of strange.

I'd risk death to fark her.

Seriously. If I had the chance to fark Stephanie McMahon-Levesque with the chance that Triple-H would be home ANY MINUTE and catch me putting to his wife, I'd still do it with everything I have. I'd put my heart in it. I'd act like it was the last time I'd ever get laid.

And it might be. Triple-H is a farkin' caveman. He'd hurt me bad.

/And it would be Soooooo worth it.


In fact, let me add that if I had to let Triple-H fark me first before I could get a piece of his wife, I'd seriously consider it.

Not that I think he's into that, or anything.

/NTTAWWT
//And I do *not* think he's a good-looking man.
///Impressive, yes. Attractive? No.
 
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