RIP--Sensational Sherri Martel

[JimH5]

www.wwe.com/inside/news/sherripasses

 

Women's wrestling superstar Sherri Martel died today at age 49. She was one freaky character--and a woman who looked like she could beat the crap out of you.

 

Man, that's a tough business, and it seems to have no gender bias in terms of premature death.

 

RIP you scary psycho. . .and I mean that with all due respect.

[SeriesFinale]

I notice the WWE shied away from naming the cause of death in their press release

 

The McMahons have one thing in common with real sports: they've looked the other way while they made a lot of money on the backs of steroid-popping athletes

[MessiahRp]

I find it strange that Randy Savage has outlived his long time valets (Sherri and Miss Elizabeth) now when he was the one using the roids fairly heavily through the 80s. Of course I also wonder how Hogan and the Ultimate Warrior are still around when countless others have died from abusing their bodies with the same steroids that those two were the poster boys of.

 

Rp

[BraunsBoyfriend]

Don't you mean, "Scary Sherri", as she was referred to during her days with the Macho Man?

[cweber39]

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Ultimate Warrior are still around when countless others have died from abusing their bodies

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I thought there were a lot of different Ultimate Warriors through the years.

[igor67]

If Keith Richards can still be alive anything is possible. Differences in normal body chemistry and other drug habits probably have a lot to do with it as well. Hammering down gobs of booze to go with your steroids isn't the nicest way to keep your liver going. And there maybe a chicken and egg thing going on, but the fact that Randy Savage (long live Bonesaw!) and Hulk kept wrestling as long as they did indicates perhaps less dependence on steroids, or just better fitness overall.

[MessiahRp]

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I thought there were a lot of different Ultimate Warriors through the years.

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LOL no there was only one. The man formerly known as Jim Helwig (he actually legally changed his name to Warrior later).

 

The rumors were fueled by his constant disappearing act. Really what happened was usually the Warrior and Vince haggling over money.

 

He left after SummerSlam '91... Vince claims he fired him because Warrior held him up for a big bonus check, I have read elsewhere that Warrior was offered main event money to drop the WWF title so they could put it on Hogan at WM 7, Warrior didn't want to do a second Hogan match and so they offered him WM main event money to do the match with Savage instead... (money was all Warrior ever cared about) and when their WM checks came Warrior was shorted the much larger amount he was offered so he used his spot in the SummerSlam main event as his only leverage to recover what was owed.

 

Vince put out a one sided, petty attack on the Warrior on DVD a couple years back called The Self Destruction of the Ultimate Warrior in which he only says that Warrior held him up for no reason. Not sure of the 100% validity of any of the points of the above story but the context of both sides makes it seem feasible.

 

In between that time in August and his return at WM 8 in April 1992 he had laid off the roids and weightlifting and lost a ton of mass, as well as cutting his hair shorter and that fueled the rumors.

 

The truth is it was always the same guy and in real life Warrior is a crazy dude who seems to rant incoherently even in his website columns about wrestling and politics.

 

www.ultimatewarrior.com

 

Rp

[gypcasino]

The McMahons have one thing in common with real sports: they've looked the other way while they made a lot of money on the backs of steroid-popping athletes

 

Well, Vince is dead now so I guess he got his in the end.

[temke]

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I thought there were a lot of different Ultimate Warriors through the years.

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i remember hearing the same rumors of the ultimate warrior dying of a steroid OD.

[Teatoe993]

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i remember hearing the same rumors of the ultimate warrior dying of a steroid OD.

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Yeah. I heard that his heart exploded while doing a bench press.

[thablingster]

That is pretty sad, my most vivid memory of Sherri is from when I was a little kid and she was Shawn Michaels' valet.

 

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Well, Vince is dead now so I guess he got his in the end.

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I bet Kane did it, you know he loves to set things on fire.

[temke]

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Yeah. I heard that his heart exploded while doing a bench press.

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sounds like what i heard. i couldnt remember exactly what the rumr was, but that jogged my memory