WRESTLING CHATTERBOX UPDATE FOR JULY 21, 2007
- 07/21/2007 (4:41:44 pm)
- Georgiann Makropoulos
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I just received this email from Kathy Fitzpatrick. She has informed us that she and Sherri Martel's sister, Vicki will be completing Sherri's book.
Hi everyone!!
Vicki, Sherri's sister and I have decided to continue her pet project that
was her book. So we are asking that if anyone can think of to send us
stories about Sherri ; trips, ribs she may have pulled on anyone, any kind of
stories about her.. Also we are looking for emails or if you can just pass
this onto some of the following people:
Vicki, Sherri's sister and I have decided to continue her pet project that
was her book. So we are asking that if anyone can think of to send us
stories about Sherri ; trips, ribs she may have pulled on anyone, any kind of
stories about her.. Also we are looking for emails or if you can just pass
this onto some of the following people:
Terry Taylor, Hulk Hogan, Steve Austin anyone that has some great memories about Sherri.
Trust me this will be a labor of love for me.
Vicki also found some screen prints that Sherri was going to make T-shirts
out of, so when we contact that company and after paying for the cost of the
shirts, all proceeds will go to buying Sherri's headstone. So thanks to one and
all in advance. If you would rather call me as I can't get near a computer
much due to my surgery, that would be great the phone is on 24/7.
Trust me this will be a labor of love for me.
Vicki also found some screen prints that Sherri was going to make T-shirts
out of, so when we contact that company and after paying for the cost of the
shirts, all proceeds will go to buying Sherri's headstone. So thanks to one and
all in advance. If you would rather call me as I can't get near a computer
much due to my surgery, that would be great the phone is on 24/7.
Thanks again
Kathy Fitzpatrick Call 856-264-3551
Kathy Fitzpatrick Call 856-264-3551
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My friend Carl sent me this link for his book "Whatever happened to Gorgeous George" on eBay:
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Another reader of ours has put up his wrestling collection on eBay, here are the links:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=230153783836&rd=1&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=230153786674&rd=1&rd=1
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=013&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&viewitem=&item=230154104213&rd=1&rd=1
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Kirby Mack, member of team Macktion is hospitalized with a collapsed lung from a border toss by LAX member, Hotstuff Hernandez at last night's UWF show in Myrtle Beach, SC. He is currently at Grand Strand Medical Center.
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For Immediate UWF Press Release
July 21, 2007
Team Macktion member Kirby Mack was hospitalized after a border toss from LAX member Hernandez at a UWF event last night in Myrtle Beach
Team Macktion member Kirby Mack remains hospitalized at the Grand Strand Medical Center in Myrtle Beach after suffering a collapsed lung from the border toss by LAX member Hernandez. The UWF will address the situation tonight as the Three Day Tag Team Tournament concludes at the Township Auditorium in Columbia, SC. Tickets are available at ticketmaster and the Township Auditorium box office.
Following are the announced matches for tonight's show:
Naturals v. 2 cool
LAX v. Steiner Brothers
AJ Styles v. Joey Matthews
And much more as the UWF crowns the first ever UWF Tag Team Tournament Champions! For more information, visit www.uwfusa.com.
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Do you want to buy Hulk Hogan's Miami home? Its up for sale, check link: (You only need $94,500 per month payment LOL)
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Thanks to Mike Informer for this link on CM Punk from the Miami Herald:
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All these links were kindly sent in by Jeff Sheridan:
Joanie Laurer to be on Nancy Grace on Tuesday:
http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/nancy.grace/
"Tuesday's Show
Tuesday, 8 and 10 p.m. ET
In a revealing interview, professional wrestling's Chyna Doll speaks out about drugs and death in the wrestling world."
"Tuesday's Show
Tuesday, 8 and 10 p.m. ET
In a revealing interview, professional wrestling's Chyna Doll speaks out about drugs and death in the wrestling world."
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Video interview with Marc Mero on "Off the Record' http://broadband.tsn.ca/tsn/?id=2001
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Transcript of Mero, Sammartino and New Jack on Nancy Grace: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/20/ng.01.html
"Aired July 20, 2007 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
GRACE: And tonight, another young superstar wrestler turns up dead. Believe it or not, wrestling star 38-year-old John Kronus found dead at home in his New Hampshire apartment. Cause of death? The state`s medical examiner refuses to reveal that CoD, waiting on toxicology results. What can be deduced from that? Kronus`s unexplained death on the heels of the death of 40-year-old WWE superstar Chris Benoit and his entire family, found dead in the Atlanta suburbs. Toxicology reports revealed Benoit 10 times the normal level of testosterone, his wife and 7-year-old son drugged at the time of their murders, murders at Benoit`s hands.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yet another wrestling star dead, John Kronus found dead in a New Hampshire apartment Wednesday. The state medical examiner`s office is performing an autopsy on the former world tag team champion, but says results won`t be available for some time, this the second high-profile professional wrestling death in weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You get a check, you know, from (INAUDIBLE) $500- some a month to support him. And Kronus could barely walk, you know? And nobody cared about him, you know? I mean, I`m on disability now because of the physical ailments that I`m feeling, something I`m going through that -- you know, going through (INAUDIBLE) that happened to me over the years, you know, being in this business.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Good evening, I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us tonight.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`ve got all these wrestlers dying, you know, from a combination of painkillers, prolonged steroid usage, and alcohol, recreational drugs, and nothing has been done.
MARC MERO, FORMER PRO WRESTLER: We`re dying. Please, something`s got to be done.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why are all these wrestlers dying? And we know what they`re dying from, and nothing`s being done to clean up the sport. There is no investigation; there is no congressional oversight; there`s nothing going on. And that to me is more tragic than the deaths themselves.
MERO: If Broadway and Hollywood were dying like we`re dying, something would be done. Remember, 104 wrestlers in 10 years.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Another wrestler, pro wrestler, just 38 years old, found dead in a New Hampshire apartment. Right now, we don`t know the cause of death. That being kept close to the vest until toxicology results come back. John Kronus, known as Kronus in the ring, dead, age 38.
Bryan Alvarez with Figurefouronline.com, what happened?
BRYAN ALVAREZ, FIGUREFOURONLINE.COM: Well, John Kronus passed away on Wednesday, or at least we heard about it...
GRACE: Isn`t this the first large fighter to do a somersault from the top rope?
ALVAREZ: He probably wasn`t the first, but he was a very athletic guy, and he only really wrestled for about seven years straight, and he had to have two knee surgeries, one on each knee. So he worked a very hard style, and he just underwent the surgery a couple of weeks ago. So we don`t have the results yet because the toxicology reports aren`t back, and I think it`s probably going to be something involving pain medication, from what we`ve been told.
GRACE: What do you mean "something involving pain medication"?
ALVAREZ: He was involved with ECW in the mid-`90s, and there was a major party scene there. A lot of guys got hooked on a lot of different drugs. And as you mentioned, he did flips off the top row, did a lot of high-impact moves, and his body was hurting. And he had just underwent knee surgery, and he was probably prescribed a lot of stuff. So it`s very likely that this will probably be another pain pill death.
GRACE: I want to go out now to special guest, Bruno Sammartino, former wrestling champ, and he`s a living legend. Sir, thank you for being with us..
BRUNO SAMMARTINO, FORMER WRESTLING CHAMPION: My pleasure, Nancy.
GRACE: You`ve held the championship for many, many years. It`s a pleasure to have you with us. As you see what`s going on within the pro wrestling industry, what`s your response?
SAMMARTINO: Well, my response is this, Nancy, that way back, about 15, 20 years ago, there had been a few deaths in wrestling, because I had retired. And when I came back and I saw what drastic changes had been into wrestling, and I saw then that things were really, really nasty. Drugs were rampant in this business, and already a few deaths had come by. And I started speaking out.
I was with McMahon on the "Larry King" show, Geraldo Rivera, all over for two years, I pounded my head against the wall trying to bring attention to what was going on in the sport, because I predicted then that these three deaths would keep growing and growing. Today, they say we`re up to 104. I heard 120. What happened today with this fellow doesn`t surprise me.
And, by the way, I heard what the gentleman said about pain medication. I had callers today tell me that it was very well-known that he was a steroid user and he used a lot of other drugs, including...
GRACE: OxyContin?
SAMMARTINO: Yes, including that. So, you know, I`ve had major, major surgeries, and this gentleman talks about medication for knee surgery. I had very major back surgeries, hip replacement. I was on little or no pain medication at all. I don`t buy that as contributing to anything.
It is rampant drug use. And somebody on the opposite side trying to do damage control, they said that this was in the `80s. I was just looking at a list today, and I came up with about 30 wrestlers that have died from around 1995 to present. So this is very much still going on.
And I will tell you this, that if the folks keep supporting this, this tragedy that is going on, if the political people, congresspeople don`t get involved and do some legitimate investigating in this, this list 10 years from now will be 100 more than it is right now. And when they talk about doing self-cleaning, that they`re going to do all the drug testing on their own, this is the biggest joke of all, because this has been going on.. And some of your biggest drug users in these companies have never been caught or failed a test. A few nobodies supposedly didn`t pass the test, but then, if you look at the big, the big steroid...
GRACE: Well, you know, that`s really interesting, Mr. Sammartino. With me is Bruno Sammartino, a real living legend, held the championship belt for many, many years. The WWE has released Benoit`s April urine test but refuses to release the three before that. I wonder why!
Out to you, Dr. Patricia Saunders. Knowing the health risks that are posed by steroids and repeated painkiller use, why keep doing it? Now we`ve learned of another death, Patricia, a 38-year-old young man.
DR. PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Because everybody else in the field is doing it, Nancy, and they`re fulfilling these fantasies of having these He-Men superhuman bodies that only anabolic, adrenergic steroids or testosterone can give them. They`re in a state of denial, and they`re pretty desperate folks, in order to put their lives at risk and the lives of their loved ones.
GRACE: Another issue, very quickly, Patricia Saunders, we learned about elevated use of Xanax in the little 7-year-old boy`s system, Benoit`s 7-year-old. Is there any reason to give a 7-year-old that?
SAUNDERS: Absolutely not.
GRACE: You know, talking about the possibility of painkillers and steroids, in Kronus` death -- everyone, yet another professional wrestler found dead -- they`re saying not suspicious circumstances. That rules out murder. Why did he die? We`re waiting on toxicology reports. Now, right there, knowing they`re waiting on toxicology reports suggests they are looking for something in his bloodstream. Here`s John Kronus. We don`t know for sure if pain meds were involved; we don`t know until the toxicology results are back.
I want you to take a listen to New Jack. This is his tag team partner. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JEROME "NEW JACK" YOUNG, FORMER TAG TEAM PARTNER: Kronus was a real good guy, you know. I mean, he got a son in Philadelphia named Gauge (ph). And, I mean, his whole thing was he wanted to make enough money to take care of his son, and he was always telling me, "New Jack, whatever I do in this business is for my son." He said, "I want to make enough money to make sure that he don`t want for anything ever."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: And to Bryan Alvarez, what now?
ALVAREZ: I want to say one thing about Chris Benoit and the case there that sort of ties all of this together.
GRACE: Quickly.
ALVAREZ: Chris Benoit, he destroyed a lot of stuff right prior to his suicide, notes, diaries, et cetera. He did not destroy the steroids, and I think there was a reason for that.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is very clear in saying that there were no illegal anabolic steroids found in his body.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought it was very telling that the WWE people did not stay on to talk to the rest of the panel."
"Aired July 20, 2007 - 20:00:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
GRACE: And tonight, another young superstar wrestler turns up dead. Believe it or not, wrestling star 38-year-old John Kronus found dead at home in his New Hampshire apartment. Cause of death? The state`s medical examiner refuses to reveal that CoD, waiting on toxicology results. What can be deduced from that? Kronus`s unexplained death on the heels of the death of 40-year-old WWE superstar Chris Benoit and his entire family, found dead in the Atlanta suburbs. Toxicology reports revealed Benoit 10 times the normal level of testosterone, his wife and 7-year-old son drugged at the time of their murders, murders at Benoit`s hands.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yet another wrestling star dead, John Kronus found dead in a New Hampshire apartment Wednesday. The state medical examiner`s office is performing an autopsy on the former world tag team champion, but says results won`t be available for some time, this the second high-profile professional wrestling death in weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You get a check, you know, from (INAUDIBLE) $500- some a month to support him. And Kronus could barely walk, you know? And nobody cared about him, you know? I mean, I`m on disability now because of the physical ailments that I`m feeling, something I`m going through that -- you know, going through (INAUDIBLE) that happened to me over the years, you know, being in this business.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Good evening, I`m Nancy Grace. I want to thank you for being with us tonight.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You`ve got all these wrestlers dying, you know, from a combination of painkillers, prolonged steroid usage, and alcohol, recreational drugs, and nothing has been done.
MARC MERO, FORMER PRO WRESTLER: We`re dying. Please, something`s got to be done.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why are all these wrestlers dying? And we know what they`re dying from, and nothing`s being done to clean up the sport. There is no investigation; there is no congressional oversight; there`s nothing going on. And that to me is more tragic than the deaths themselves.
MERO: If Broadway and Hollywood were dying like we`re dying, something would be done. Remember, 104 wrestlers in 10 years.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: Another wrestler, pro wrestler, just 38 years old, found dead in a New Hampshire apartment. Right now, we don`t know the cause of death. That being kept close to the vest until toxicology results come back. John Kronus, known as Kronus in the ring, dead, age 38.
Bryan Alvarez with Figurefouronline.com, what happened?
BRYAN ALVAREZ, FIGUREFOURONLINE.COM: Well, John Kronus passed away on Wednesday, or at least we heard about it...
GRACE: Isn`t this the first large fighter to do a somersault from the top rope?
ALVAREZ: He probably wasn`t the first, but he was a very athletic guy, and he only really wrestled for about seven years straight, and he had to have two knee surgeries, one on each knee. So he worked a very hard style, and he just underwent the surgery a couple of weeks ago. So we don`t have the results yet because the toxicology reports aren`t back, and I think it`s probably going to be something involving pain medication, from what we`ve been told.
GRACE: What do you mean "something involving pain medication"?
ALVAREZ: He was involved with ECW in the mid-`90s, and there was a major party scene there. A lot of guys got hooked on a lot of different drugs. And as you mentioned, he did flips off the top row, did a lot of high-impact moves, and his body was hurting. And he had just underwent knee surgery, and he was probably prescribed a lot of stuff. So it`s very likely that this will probably be another pain pill death.
GRACE: I want to go out now to special guest, Bruno Sammartino, former wrestling champ, and he`s a living legend. Sir, thank you for being with us..
BRUNO SAMMARTINO, FORMER WRESTLING CHAMPION: My pleasure, Nancy.
GRACE: You`ve held the championship for many, many years. It`s a pleasure to have you with us. As you see what`s going on within the pro wrestling industry, what`s your response?
SAMMARTINO: Well, my response is this, Nancy, that way back, about 15, 20 years ago, there had been a few deaths in wrestling, because I had retired. And when I came back and I saw what drastic changes had been into wrestling, and I saw then that things were really, really nasty. Drugs were rampant in this business, and already a few deaths had come by. And I started speaking out.
I was with McMahon on the "Larry King" show, Geraldo Rivera, all over for two years, I pounded my head against the wall trying to bring attention to what was going on in the sport, because I predicted then that these three deaths would keep growing and growing. Today, they say we`re up to 104. I heard 120. What happened today with this fellow doesn`t surprise me.
And, by the way, I heard what the gentleman said about pain medication. I had callers today tell me that it was very well-known that he was a steroid user and he used a lot of other drugs, including...
GRACE: OxyContin?
SAMMARTINO: Yes, including that. So, you know, I`ve had major, major surgeries, and this gentleman talks about medication for knee surgery. I had very major back surgeries, hip replacement. I was on little or no pain medication at all. I don`t buy that as contributing to anything.
It is rampant drug use. And somebody on the opposite side trying to do damage control, they said that this was in the `80s. I was just looking at a list today, and I came up with about 30 wrestlers that have died from around 1995 to present. So this is very much still going on.
And I will tell you this, that if the folks keep supporting this, this tragedy that is going on, if the political people, congresspeople don`t get involved and do some legitimate investigating in this, this list 10 years from now will be 100 more than it is right now. And when they talk about doing self-cleaning, that they`re going to do all the drug testing on their own, this is the biggest joke of all, because this has been going on.. And some of your biggest drug users in these companies have never been caught or failed a test. A few nobodies supposedly didn`t pass the test, but then, if you look at the big, the big steroid...
GRACE: Well, you know, that`s really interesting, Mr. Sammartino. With me is Bruno Sammartino, a real living legend, held the championship belt for many, many years. The WWE has released Benoit`s April urine test but refuses to release the three before that. I wonder why!
Out to you, Dr. Patricia Saunders. Knowing the health risks that are posed by steroids and repeated painkiller use, why keep doing it? Now we`ve learned of another death, Patricia, a 38-year-old young man.
DR. PATRICIA SAUNDERS, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Because everybody else in the field is doing it, Nancy, and they`re fulfilling these fantasies of having these He-Men superhuman bodies that only anabolic, adrenergic steroids or testosterone can give them. They`re in a state of denial, and they`re pretty desperate folks, in order to put their lives at risk and the lives of their loved ones.
GRACE: Another issue, very quickly, Patricia Saunders, we learned about elevated use of Xanax in the little 7-year-old boy`s system, Benoit`s 7-year-old. Is there any reason to give a 7-year-old that?
SAUNDERS: Absolutely not.
GRACE: You know, talking about the possibility of painkillers and steroids, in Kronus` death -- everyone, yet another professional wrestler found dead -- they`re saying not suspicious circumstances. That rules out murder. Why did he die? We`re waiting on toxicology reports. Now, right there, knowing they`re waiting on toxicology reports suggests they are looking for something in his bloodstream. Here`s John Kronus. We don`t know for sure if pain meds were involved; we don`t know until the toxicology results are back.
I want you to take a listen to New Jack. This is his tag team partner. Take a listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JEROME "NEW JACK" YOUNG, FORMER TAG TEAM PARTNER: Kronus was a real good guy, you know. I mean, he got a son in Philadelphia named Gauge (ph). And, I mean, his whole thing was he wanted to make enough money to take care of his son, and he was always telling me, "New Jack, whatever I do in this business is for my son." He said, "I want to make enough money to make sure that he don`t want for anything ever."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
GRACE: And to Bryan Alvarez, what now?
ALVAREZ: I want to say one thing about Chris Benoit and the case there that sort of ties all of this together.
GRACE: Quickly.
ALVAREZ: Chris Benoit, he destroyed a lot of stuff right prior to his suicide, notes, diaries, et cetera. He did not destroy the steroids, and I think there was a reason for that.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is very clear in saying that there were no illegal anabolic steroids found in his body.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought it was very telling that the WWE people did not stay on to talk to the rest of the panel."
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