Saturday, May 23, 2020

Tragic week in wrestling

It's been tragic filled week in wrestling with three deaths. Former WWE wrestler Shad Gaspard,
411 Wrestling writer Larry Csonka, and Stardom wrestler Hana Kimura passed under different circumstances.

- Shad Gaspard was in WWE with his tag team partner JTG known as Cryme Tyme. After their WWE release both would continue to tag in the indies. Behind the scenes he's a heavily well-liked man toward his co-workers helping them out. He always put family up in front especially his kids.
Shad Gaspard was at the beach with his family. He was part of group along with his son when he got caught underneath a tide. As lifeguards rushed to save the group his last words was telling the guards to save his son before being swept out to sea. His body was washed ashore few days later. Lost is a family man who puts his kids in front of him and would have your back. Support from wrestling community poured with JTG sharing final text from him as well tributes from many wrestlers such as Kofi Kingston, Byron Saxton, and Triple H. A tribute at beach where he lost his life held few nights ago. To help out his family you can donate at GoFund Me (https://www.gofundme.com/f/the-shad-gaspard-family-fund) or purchase a t-shirt (https://store.collarandelbowbrand.com/collections/mens/products/beast).

- 411 Wrestling writer Larry Csonka is one of few guys I read for show reviews. I was shocked when I heard he passed away on Monday. One of his reviews was up on the site the previous day. I didn't know he was dealing with health issues in his life. He passed away from it leaving behind a wife and two daughters who were love of his life. His writings on wrestling not only the fans but the wrestlers. Of the many wrestlers leaving outpouring of support is WWE wrestler Kevin Owens. A GoFundMe page is up to provide for his two young daughters. To contribute here's the link: https://www.gofundme.com/f/larrymania-living-on-in-his-girls

- The shocking death of Stardom wrestler Hana Kimura turn to various forms of angry once details trickled in. Japanese woman wrestler was targeted after her appearance on reality TV show. She was cyberbullied with on social media platforms with assholes telling her to either catch covid-19 or to kill herself. The threats made her post pictures of her doing bodily harm of herself before committing suicide. Seeing few screenshots of the threats made me angry. How can these scumbags live with themselves that their cyberbullying  made her commit suicide? So much being in friendly towards each other during this time. Sad Hana died but angry was lead her to it. Just horrible people...

Not been good year and five months in we are ready to be it over with. My thoughts, condolences, and prayers toward the families and friends of Shad, Larry, and Hana.

1 comment:

  1. I wasn't familiar with any of these people, but I did see an article on Yahoo about Hana's death. Very sad.

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