Forgotten Heroes of the Ring...

Sorry for not posting for a while, i have been working on a small project. Forgotten Heroes of the Ring is a collection of autographed promo shots featuring some of the great wrestlers from the last century. It's a limited 100 edition run sponsored to coincide with the release of the forgotten heroes series of action figures in February.
Here are some views from within the book:

The book is Hardcover, 98 pages. It will be available for £11.99 from the main Forgotten Heroes website, but you can reserve a copy by emailing your details to me here at conroyvanwinkle@hotmail.co.uk

Dead transexuals. Issue 1

Camilla Decastro was a Brazilian pre-op transsexual adult movie star and model. She had a regular spot on a Brazilian television show, Superpop. Camilla committed suicide when she leapt from her 8th-story apartment. Apparently drugs were involved in the circumstances of her death. She had announced her engagement to her German boyfriend one month before (June 26).

Surely these kinds of alternative celebrities are more interesting than the people we hear about all the time? Whilst they are still alive and haven't lept to their deaths, why don't we see them in heat and sneak magazine or at film premieres? The world is so shit.

Dead Wrestlers

I have a fetish for dead wrestlers. I don't know why but as far back as i can remember i have always been fascinated by professional wrestlers dying. I only ever use to be into wrestling when i was a kid in the late 80's early 90's. These were the days of Hulk Hogan, The Ultimate Warrior, The Legion of doom etc and i was strictly into WWF and i defiantly thought it was real. At this time i was a skinny little kid in England and these humongous wrestlers from America seemed like something from a another planet. Everything from America seems better than what you have when you are a UK kid, especially during the 80's/90's before the Internet ,when all you had to get your USA info was sky TV and your mad uncle. So these fully ripped cartoon character wrestlers with mullets running around in their pants beating each other up was like the most fascinating thing you had ever seen.

When i get told one of these super heroes has died, to this day it still has a strange effect on me and i don't even give a fuck about wrestling anymore (I'm strictly UFC now). I don't know what it is but i just need to know everything about how that fucker died, what were the circumstances and if possible, show me a video. Because this goes on in America you also often get the added bonus of a conspiracy theory thrown in for extra excitement.

I have been doing some research into wrestler deaths and first of all, let me just say, i didn't even know the Texas Tornado only had one foot. I didn't know Ravishing Rick Rude was dead and i certainly didn't realise there was a conspiracy theory suggesting that satanists killed Chris Benoit and made it look like a suicide.

Wrestler deaths of any kind are fascinating, weather it is a murder, a ring accident (which i find particularly intriguing) or a health issue. Anyway if you look at all the wrestlers who have passed away, you can see that a disproportionately large number of them have died as result of some sort of heart failure. I just find it fascinating that these men live this lifestyle. Piling on so much muscle, eating all sorts of fucked up diets and using drugs to mutate their bodies. The rewards are high for being a pro wrestler, but they live with this knowledge that they are fucking themselves up every which way and putting their lives at risk. The psychological pressure of that alone must surely take it's toll.

Anyway like most things which intrigue us i don't think i can fully explain why i am so fascinated with dead wrestlers but here are some links i have found:

List of dead wrestlers with pictures (i love the fact that when you move the mouse over the wrestler the cause of death pops up. Nice touch).

Wrestlings dirty secret (Article on health issues faced by wrestlers)

Top 10 wrestler deaths (Have to say, this would not be my top 10)

Chirs Benoit conspiracy

Chris Benoit conspiracy part 2

Wikipedia wrestler death page

Just type in 'wrestling accidents' on youtube and you will find all sorts of videos of wrestlers breaking there necks and stuff in the ring.
Sorry about the music in this video.


But you wont find these Lucha Libre ones, which for some reason seem a bit more creepy


Deaths in Pro Wrestling