Deaths in wrestling that hit the hardest?

[Lovestorm]

Warrior being inducted, giving that end of life speech and then passing away was quite haunting.

 

[ralphus1]

Owen. Built a new house and was planning on retiring when his contract expired.

 

[Bamboozled]

Misawa was unreal, Eddie and Benoit were kinda crazy but I didn't cry. For some reason when Piper died I was fine until someone sent me a link to his theme song on my phone. I opened it while driving and I started crying. Dusty was hard too.

 

[D.R.H.]

Eddie, Dusty and Macho.

 

[Capt Lunatic]

Favorite Pre-Hulkamania = Bruiser Brody
Favorite New Generation = Owen Hart
Favorite Monday Night era = Chris Benoit
Favorite overall wrestler = Randy Savage

I just gave up.

 

[luckyshot]

Taker when Kane lit him on fire inside the casket at Rumble 98.

Big Ray Traylor

I still can’t believe the Ministry hanged him. What a way to go.

 

[moonwolf]

 

[Deleted member 405583]

He was a westsider. Strong breed.

 

[Protegejoe296]

Bobby hit me pretty hard too, he was one of the major voices of my childhood.

 

[frenz]

Chyna was sad. She seemed to be in a good place.

 

[D.R.H.]

 

[Casrot]

Moppy:



Fucking brutal. A part of me died that day.

 

[Bluesbreaker]

A lot of my favourites died while I was lapsed, so none of those really affected me.

Since I've been on my nostalgia trip though, I've found a few quite sad:
Piper
Dusty
Chyna
Tom Zenk
Axl Rotten
Heenan - Although, I don't feel as positively about him now, as I did before.

And yet, guys like Ian Rotten and New Jack continue to live...

 

[maxi diablo]

Eddie and Benoit. I miss Chris's wrestling style.

 

[Lay N Pray 101]

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Weird to say, but Chris Benoit is still #1 for me.

 

[Wariowokecancel]

Roddy because he was clean, sober, living the good life and stress killed him according to his best friends.

 

[IGotAHugePeckah]

Owen Hart and Chris Benoit for sure. Both were two of my favourites as a kid. When they did that angle where Owen was European champ and was injured and had that impromptu match with Triple H and they screwed him, I was so pissed I refused to watch WWF for like a year.

Benoit was my favourite wrestler when I was a kid, just loved his style and gimmick. I still remember me and my buddies going nuts when he won the World title in 04. And to have him be a wife/child murdering piece of shit, that was so fucked.

 

[PokerMage]

Owen Hart for sure.

Growing up watching Stampede Wrestling made me a fan.

Hell lastnight i watched the Rumble and during that horrid tag match i was reminiscing about all the great tag matches that i grew up watching.

A young Owen and Bret Hart against the Vietcong Express, those matches for some reason i really remember for being just so fast and athletic it was like wrestling was changing from the grinding match-ups of old to just a new level of fast athletic transitions.

 

[AleYeah]

Eddie was my favorite wrestler. I bawled like a baby at his his tribute video, and I still get goosebumps every time I watch the finish of the match where he reached the top of the mountain. The postmatch celebrations with fans and his family are fantastic.