Thursday, November 10, 2011

Popular wrestlers and their death

- Curt Hennig, 44, died of acute cocaine intoxication in February 2003, medical records show.       But his father said last year that a lethal combination of steroids and painkillers contributed to his death.


- "The British Bulldog," Davey Boy Smith, 39,died in 2002 in Canada of an enlarged heart with evidence of microscopic scar tissue, possibly from steroid abuse, a coroner said. "Davey paid the price with steroid cocktails and human-growth hormones," says Bruce Hart, a veteran trainer who worked with Smith and was his brother-in-law.




- Richard "Ravishing Rick Rude" Rood, 40, died from an overdose of "mixed medications" in Alpharetta, Ga., in 1999, his autopsy shows. In 1994 he testified that he had used anabolic steroids to build muscle mass and relieve joint pain.



article from http://www.usatoday.com/sports/2004-03-12-wrestling-list_x.htm