Former World Championship Wrestling (WCW) wrestler Chase Tatum was found dead of an accidental drug overdose in his Georgia home. He was 34.
His WCW career lasted about 2 1/2 years; he left WCW with severe back problems before Vince McMahon's World Wrestling Entertainment bought WCW. It lead to a painkiller addiction, for which he had been planning to go into rehab for, and major back surgery ten days ago to repair a damaged vertebrae from his WCW experience.
His dad told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Chase was well on his way to getting his life re-established and without the painkillers. He had a role in the 2007 movie "Who's Your Caddy?" and worked as a successful personal trainer before and then after his WCW stint. He had also landed a role in another film which was to begin filming in New York soon.
Autopsy and toxicology test results will hopefully shed more light on how this happened.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Monday, August 13, 2007
Another Former WWE Wrestler Dies: Brian "Crush" Adams Dead at Age 44
Here we go again.
Brian Adams was found dead by his wife earlier today. He was 44.
Adams competed in the WWE/WWF as "Crush", "Koko Crush", and was a former member of the tag team known as Demolition, was a member of the Nation of Domination, and was also a member of the WWE biker gang Disciples of Apocalypse. When he was in World Championship Wrestling, he wrestled under both his own name and as "KroniK."
He later moved on to boxing, but was injured and returned to wrestling. He was forced to retire after sustaining spinal injuries in the ring in 2003.
They just keep dying so young. 2007 is turning out to be one of the worst years in wrestling history for wrestler deaths. So far this year, the wrestling world has lost "Bam Bam" Bigelow, Mike Awesome, Sensational Sherri, Biff Wellington, Nancy Benoit, Chris Benoit, John Kronus, and Brian Adams. Every one of them was in their 30s or 40s.
And it's going to keep on happening. The types of drugs these people are taking are so destructive that the damage they cause to a wrestler's body do not heal or go away; it kills them.
If drug abuse is as widespread as many in the wrestling industry are saying in the wake of the Benoit double-murder/suicide, it begs the question:
How many of today's wrestlers will live to see their 45th birthday? I don't think I want to know.
Brian Adams was found dead by his wife earlier today. He was 44.
Adams competed in the WWE/WWF as "Crush", "Koko Crush", and was a former member of the tag team known as Demolition, was a member of the Nation of Domination, and was also a member of the WWE biker gang Disciples of Apocalypse. When he was in World Championship Wrestling, he wrestled under both his own name and as "KroniK."
He later moved on to boxing, but was injured and returned to wrestling. He was forced to retire after sustaining spinal injuries in the ring in 2003.
They just keep dying so young. 2007 is turning out to be one of the worst years in wrestling history for wrestler deaths. So far this year, the wrestling world has lost "Bam Bam" Bigelow, Mike Awesome, Sensational Sherri, Biff Wellington, Nancy Benoit, Chris Benoit, John Kronus, and Brian Adams. Every one of them was in their 30s or 40s.
And it's going to keep on happening. The types of drugs these people are taking are so destructive that the damage they cause to a wrestler's body do not heal or go away; it kills them.
If drug abuse is as widespread as many in the wrestling industry are saying in the wake of the Benoit double-murder/suicide, it begs the question:
How many of today's wrestlers will live to see their 45th birthday? I don't think I want to know.
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