Former Pride Fighter, Sean O'Haire found dead

[Taric]

Probably so it can be seen in the UFC forum, which would result in more views.

If you said otherwise, it would have been moved to the kick boxing forum.

Fair point.

 

[BPA00]

Sad so many former pro wrestlers die so early. RIP.

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

The constant travel always gets overlooked too. Always being on the road really hinders your bodies ability to stay 100%.

RIP.

Not just physically.

Terrible for having stable relationships with people and maintaining a good social support system.

 

[RageRoider]

these Wrestling roids...

He has 6 MMA bouts with record 6-2 ?

 

[Amerikuracana]

these Wrestling roids...

He has 6 MMA bouts with record 6-2 ?

In the UFC a guy can be 74' inches tall and also be 6'5.. So why not.

 

[Damianj]

Lot of these wwf guys seem to go early. Cade, Guerrero, Benoit, Big Boss Man, Warrior, etc.

A hectic non stop schedule compiled with being juiced to the gills will catch up to anyone eventually. It's no surprise at all why these guys are dropping like flies.

 

[ufc_vs_pride]

Does a dude who didn't even last 30 seconds in the organization count as a PRIDE fighter?

Better off calling him a K-1 fighter.

Took that fight in 1 days notice because Mark Hunt wasn't allow to fight in US

 

[neverwas]

i wonder how any of these wrestlers make it to 50,would want to see a list of how many have died in the last 10 years.

 

[ThunderL1ps]

Took that fight in 1 days notice because Mark Hunt wasn't allow to fight in US

And it looked like it too.

Had a great swanton bomb, but couldn't connect with the crowd in the WWE. Was kind of surprised how relatively quickly he gave up on the pro wrestling side of things. I thought maybe he would have been repackaged, but he wasn't.

R.I.P.

 

[Erwin]

i wonder how any of these wrestlers make it to 50,would want to see a list of how many have died in the last 10 years.

Found this list which lists pro-wrestlers who died from 97 to 07

Spoiler

Dr. Bill Miller--March 24, 1997--Died of heart failure.
Stan Stasiak: June 12, 1997--Died from heart failure.
Dick "Bulldog" Brower--September 15, 1997--Died of heart failure.
Brian Pillman: October 5, 1997--Died from arteriosclerotic heart disease.
Bobo Brazil: January 20, 1998--Died from complications from a stroke.
Louie Spicolli: February 15, 1998--Died from arteriosclerotic heart disease caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy syndrome.
Junk Yard Dog: June 2, 1998--Died in a car accident after falling asleep at the wheel.
Sky Low Low [famous midget wrestler]: November 9, 1998--heart failure.
Shohei "Giant" Baba: January 31, 1999--Died of colon cancer.
Rick Williams [Renegade in WCW]: February 23, 1999--Died from suicide.
Ravishing Rick Rude: April 20, 1999--Died from heart attack.
Owen Hart: May 23, 1999--Died from 50 foot fall from ceiling to ring.
Brian Hildebrand (WCW Referee Mark Curtis) (37)--September 8, 1999--Died after a two year battle with stomach cancer.
Gorilla Monsoon (62)--October 5, 1999--Died from a heart attack.
Bobby Duncum, Jr (34)--January 24, 2000--Drug overdose.
Gordon Solie (71)July 27, 2000--Died from cancer.
Toru Tanaka (70)--August 22, 2000--Died from a heart attack.
Yokozuna (34)--October 22, 2000--Died from a heart attack.
Johnny Valentine (72)--April 24, 2001--Natural Causes.
Tex McKenzie --May 31, 2001--Died of an aortic aneurysm.
Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy (40)--July 16, 2001--Blood clot in the heart.
Rhonda Singh (40) --August 2, 2001--Drug Overdose which caused a Heart Attack
Blaise Alexander (WCW race car driver) (25) --October 4, 2001--Complications from a head injury received in a car race.
"Gentleman" Chris Adams (46)--October 7, 2001--Shot to death.
Helen Hart--November 4, 2001--Complications from a seizure.
Russ Haas (27)--December 15, 2001--Heart Attack.
Wahoo McDaniels (63)--April 18, 2002--Died from complications from renal failure and diabetes.
Lou Thesz (86)--April 28, 2002--Died from natural causes after heart surgery earlier in the year.
Big Dick Dudley (36)--May 16, 2002--Kidney failure
"The British Bulldog" Davey Boy Smith (39) --May 18, 2002--Died from a heart attack.
Rocco Rock of Public Enemy (49)--September 21, 2002--Heart Attack.
"Mr. Perfect" Curt Hennig (44)--February 10, 2003--acute cocaine intoxication.
Miss Elizabeth (42)--May 1, 2003--Died from a combination of alcohol and painkillers.
"Classy" Freddie Blassie ((85)--June 2, 2003--Unknown
Stu Hart (88)--October 16, 2003--Natural Causes
Hawk [Michael Hegstrand] (46)-- October 19, 2003--Heart Attack
Crash Holly (32)--November 6, 2003--Drug overdose
Larry "Moondog Spot" Booker (51)--November 29, 2003--Collapsed in the ring
Malice/The Wall [Jerry Tuite] (37)--December 6, 2003--acute heart attack
Jack Tunney (69)--January 24, 2004--Heart attack
Hercules "Hernandez" (46)--March 6, 2004--Died in his sleep.
James Dudley (93)-- June 1, 2004--Died of natural causes.
Ray "Big Bossman" Traylor (41)--September 22, 2004--Heart failure.
Chris Candido (33)--April 28, 2005--Blood clot and complications due to surgery.
Lord Alfred Hayes (76)--July 21, 2005--Complications from a series of strokes.
Moondog King [Ed "Sailor" White (56)]--August 26, 2005--Complications from Car Accident
Eddie Guerrero (37)--November 13, 2005--Enlarged Heart due to years of drug use.
Johnny Grunge of Public Enemy (39)--February 16, 2006--Complications from Sleep Apnea.
John Tenta [Earthquake] (42)--June 7, 2006--bladder cancer.
Bam Bam Bigelow [Scott Bigelow] (45)--January 19, 2007--Drugs.
Mike Awesome (42)--February 17, 2007--Apparent Suicide.
Bad News Brown (63)--March 6, 2007--Heart Attack
"Big Cat" Ernie Ladd (68)--March 10, 2007--Cancer
"Sensational" Sherri (Martel) (49)--June 15, 2007--Unknown at this time
Nancy "Women" (Sullivan) Benoit (43)--June 25, 2007--Strangulation. Died at home with Chris Benoit and their son Daniel (Suffocation).
Chris Benoit (40)--June 25, 2007--Suicide by Hanging
Brian "Crush" Adams (43)--August 13, 2007--Unknown at this time
The Missing Link (Dewey Robertson) (68)--August 16, 2007--Died from cancer
Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison) (84)--November 3, 2007--Unknown at this time.

 

[Mavadorov]

wow, was actually thinking about his whereabouts yesterday, i even thought he was dead. damn.

 

[The Clamburglar]

He was a good athlete. I remember being impressed by his size + agility back in the 90s-early 2000s.

 

[LucasWithLidOff]

Too bad WCW folded because Jindrak and O'Haire were awesome. WWF dropped the ball with him.

 

[invictorious]

As have been mentioned, O'haire was poised for a push and then it didn't happen. I've never heard any behind-the-scenes stories why it didn't.

 

[PIT FIGHTER]

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[caesar]

*Lumberg voice*

Well.. I'm going to have to kind of... Diagree with you there.. Yeah."

His 'gimmick' was just being a jacked dude with an Irish name who was a bit of a badass. I remember realizing he was done when he was invited to the APA bar brawl.

You're probably right, it was quite a while ago, and I was just remembering a few of his promos with the whole 3 piece suit.

I think I should of re-worded it and said that O'Haire if given the same push could have been as big a star as the Rock, at least that's how the WWE was building him from his promos and his relationship with Roddy Piper.

 

[PIT FIGHTER]

His devil's advocate gimmick was great and completely unique to everything else on WWE programming at the time.

They dropped it quick after randomly pairing him with Piper, where Piper at that point was already a parody of himself and did more to try and get himself over than the talent he was managing.

O'Haire had a cerebral, brooding persona while Piper was a belligerent cartoon character. It's like WWE set O'Haire up for failure when realizing the vignettes were becoming more popular than they were comfortable with.

 

[Mittens]

His devil's advocate gimmick was great and completely unique to everything else on WWE programming at the time.

Yeah. It was great. Those videos you posted brought back memories...

R.I.P Sean.

 

[Edwin]

He did a wicked swanton bomb in his prime.

Yeah and the promos he did when he was being managed by Piper were awesome.

 

[Amerikuracana]

You're probably right, it was quite a while ago, and I was just remembering a few of his promos with the whole 3 piece suit.

I think I should of re-worded it and said that O'Haire if given the same push could have been as big a star as the Rock, at least that's how the WWE was building him from his promos and his relationship with Roddy Piper.

if I remember, without checking, I think his finisher was the reverse of the F-U. That was one of them, anyway.

Yeah, I don't know what happened, but he went from right on the edge to gone in about 3-6 months. It was annoying. Dude had some heat building.