: Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:49 pm  

With WWE there are all these drug problems due to wrestlers wanting to gain a place on a main show if in developmental, to move up the card if they have a spot, or to keep on top if they are there.

Then there's the schedule of being on the road over 300 days a year and not having recovery time. So they get all these painkillers and don't properly recover as they worry about being fired.

: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:01 pm  

Schrödinger's Cat wrote:

One of the founders of NOAH Wrestling has died of a suspected heart attack after taking a suplex badly yesterday in a match.

He was going to be 47 this Thursday, he took the suplex fine but his heart stopped beating afterwards.

Such a shame, may he rest in peace.

: Sat Jun 13, 2009 10:06 pm  

From The Wrestling Observer


Mitsuharu Misawa, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, was declared dead at 10:10 p.m. Saturday night at a hospital in Hiroshima after being dropped on his head in a tag team title match.

Misawa would have turned 47 on June 18th.

Misawa & Go Shiozaki were challening Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito for the GHC tag team championship in Hiroshima and Misawa was dropped on his head at about 8:45 p.m. and knocked unconscious.


According to eye witness reports, Saito gave Misawa a "routine" back suplex that was described as a "7" in danger on a scale of one-to-ten. He did not get up. It was chaos in the ring as they attempted to revive him using CPR and the crowd was hushed for a while, and began a "Misawa" chant. He turned purple in the ring and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

The wrestlers were told on the bus that he had passed away.

While it is being reported that he passed away at the hospital, he may have actually passed away in the ring.