Edward Mass posted:

Crazy that the greatest gimmick NXT ever produced has lost 2/3 of its members in less than three years.

BigBallChunkyTime posted:

Do we have any idea what the life threatening illness was?

Dude, seriously. I just turned 42 and this one hits especially hard for me. It's the first time a wrestler younger than me that I knew and watched died (I wasn't familiar with Jay Briscoe's work before he passed.)

It's really a punch in the gut. Life is fragile.

MrBling posted:

RIP to a real one.

Here's a story about him going back to Iraq to wrestle for his friend Saddam (who's a loving mark that thinks wrestling is real)

disaster pastor posted:

Hey, bullets can miss you, but $10K is $10K, boss

a.lo posted:

Meltzer posted:

I was devastated to find out last night about the death of Tony Jones, a long-time independent wrestler in the Bay Area, who was also an avid reader and listener to our shows. On almost every show I went to in the Bay Area, he'd come up and we'd talk, usually right after the show or right before, as well as at times at MMA shows. I'll always remember how he kept such a brave face when his daughter, Selina, was battling cancer from a young age and passed away at the age of 14 in 2014. Wikipedia lists that he beat Stephen Neal (a Hodge trophy winner and considered the best wrestler in the world in 1999 regardless of weight), but he told me it was just that he once took down Neal in a practice match. He was in tournaments with Kurt Angle but they never wrestled each other.

Tony was nicknamed Shooter because he was a good college wrestler at San Francisco State University before pro wrestling. Tony died Thursday night of a heart attack while watching a movie. He was 53, having celebrated his birthday by watching day one of WrestleMania. He was a big MMA and pro wrestling fan. I didn't know of him having any health issues and he always kept in good shape. He was always very proud of his son, Tony Jr. He was probably best known for appearing in Beyond the Mat and having a tryout match in Sacramento in 1998 that Vince McMahon and Jim Ross commented on including Ross telling him he should try and add muscle to his chest and shoulders.