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Mike Awesome found dead
Topic Started: Feb 19 2007, 04:31 PM (81 Views)
Snowman
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As reported earlier by Paul Nemer, Mike Alfonso, known to wrestling fans as Mike Awesome, was found dead on Saturday night in the Tampa area according to those close to the family. Awesome was 42 years old.

According to The Wrestling Observer, friends were coming to his home in Tampa to pick him up and go out on Saturday night at around 10:30pm ET. When he didn't answer the door, friends went inside his home and found him hanging. As of now, the death is believed to be due to suicide pending results of an autopsy.

Mike Awesome was a top star for FMW in Japan and was known as a high-flying big man during his stay with ECW that saw him capture the ECW World Heavyweight Title in 1999 and 2000. Awesome later made a controversial move by signing with WCW while he was still ECW Champion. Tazz, who had left ECW and signed a deal with the then WWF, was brought back to ECW to beat Awesome for the title. Awesome remained with WCW until its demise in 2001 and made the jump to the WWF soon afterwards as part the Invasion/Alliance storyline. His last big wrestling appearance was at the ECW One Night Stand PPV in 2005. Awesome had been working as a realtor at Coldwell Banker in Tampa at the time of his death.
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Crim
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Well... that bites.
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Stinger
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Yeah, that sucks. I always liked the guy, especially in ECW. RIP.

With a suicide though, I just don't care as much.
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Crim
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Stinger
Feb 19 2007, 05:30 PM
With a suicide though, I just don't care as much.

Same with me.

Mike was one of the main reasons I wacthed ECW. Though, I also enjoyed him wether he was in WCW or WWF aswell.
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Q-BZ

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Sad waste.
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Jules
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I find it hard to ration out how much I 'care' or not based on the information I posses, which is very little, so none of us are in any place to judge Awesome, even though what he did was awful, since we were not in his shoes at the time of the incident.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if suicide in the 40s and 50s becomes the new 'enlarged heart' of this last generation of wrestlers. Since it seems that sick and concussing shots to the head have replaced steroids in the 'stupid things that wrestlers do' category. Just a reminder that God didn't give us all brains so that we could have them bashed in with chairs on a consistent basis.


RIP Mike. :(
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Q-BZ

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^^ Well said. :(
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The Sandman
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The man has a point. Just look at that former defensive back that killed himself. He'd had so many coscussions that his brain was like that of an 80-year old.

Very sad. I liked him in ECW, and the Fat Chick Thriller was hilarious. Still remember when he crushed Rhino after the cameras quit rolling at a TV taping in ECW.
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