World Wrestling Deaths

Another wrestler passed away yesterday. Andrew Martin, known as “Test” to World Wrestling Entertainment fans, died at the age of 33 years old. Although the cause of death is not yet known, steroids and drug abuse have played a major role in a seemingly never-ending string of wrestling deaths.

The premature deaths of Rick Rude, Curt Hennig, Road Warrior Hawk, Hercules Hernandez, Brian Pillman, Davey Boy Smith, Eddie Guerrero, Brian Adams, among many others have resulted in Celebrity Death Pool participants including the names of wrestlers in their lists. This season, the following death poolers have selected wrestlers:

Laura Suttell – Hulk Hogan, Jesse Ventura
Jackie Baumann – The Iron Sheik
Stacey Orfeo – Hulk Hogan
Dan Ward – Jake “the Snake” Roberts
Jodie Zolnowski – King Kong Bundy

Wrestlers seem to account for at least one death a year. We will see if Martin is the start a trend or merely the lone death among wrestlers this season.