Post by PUCKU on Jul 2, 2007 4:23:16 GMT -5
www.maximonline.com/articles/index.aspx?a_id=7617
Maxim Online has put a column on their website which lists various wrestlers (Jake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior, Dusty Rhodes etc.) and has a blurb about the wrestler followed by an odds of whether or not he will be dead by 2008, Why he should be dead, and How he will die. I don't know about others, but I am just disgusted by this in general, but after the horrific events surrounding Chris Benoit, I cannot fathom who would post such a stupid column. I don't normally mind tongue-in-cheek humour, but to make light of wrestlers and dying NOW with everything that has happened I don't find it funny, just incredibly insensitive to everyone affected by the Benoit tragedy. Check out the link and post your take feeling on it.
*EXAMPLE*
The Ultimate Warrior
Age: 48
Odds that he'll die before 2008: 20 to 1
Why he should be dead: For the better part of the late '90s, we actually thought the Warrior (his legal name since 1993) was dead. His disappearance from the ring sparked countless rumors of his demise, but the man once known as Jim "Justice" Hellwig is still alive and delivering rant-filled speeches to directionless college kids all over the country. The clip proves his brain is mostly dead, so his (probably) steroid-riddled body can't be far behind.
How he'll die: Years spent screaming at the top of his lungs and tying off his joints to make his veins pop result in an explosive brain aneurysm during one of The Warrior's tirades.
Maxim Online has put a column on their website which lists various wrestlers (Jake Roberts, Ultimate Warrior, Dusty Rhodes etc.) and has a blurb about the wrestler followed by an odds of whether or not he will be dead by 2008, Why he should be dead, and How he will die. I don't know about others, but I am just disgusted by this in general, but after the horrific events surrounding Chris Benoit, I cannot fathom who would post such a stupid column. I don't normally mind tongue-in-cheek humour, but to make light of wrestlers and dying NOW with everything that has happened I don't find it funny, just incredibly insensitive to everyone affected by the Benoit tragedy. Check out the link and post your take feeling on it.
*EXAMPLE*
The Ultimate Warrior
Age: 48
Odds that he'll die before 2008: 20 to 1
Why he should be dead: For the better part of the late '90s, we actually thought the Warrior (his legal name since 1993) was dead. His disappearance from the ring sparked countless rumors of his demise, but the man once known as Jim "Justice" Hellwig is still alive and delivering rant-filled speeches to directionless college kids all over the country. The clip proves his brain is mostly dead, so his (probably) steroid-riddled body can't be far behind.
How he'll die: Years spent screaming at the top of his lungs and tying off his joints to make his veins pop result in an explosive brain aneurysm during one of The Warrior's tirades.
