Wrestler Crash Holly Found Dead

411Mania, WWE.com, WrestlingObserver ^ | 6 November 2003

[CounterCounterCulture]

Crash Holly Found Dead

Posted By Widro on 11.06.03

Michael Lockwood dead at 34

Michael Lockwood, aka Crash Holly and Mad Mikey, was found dead today in Florida. He was 34. According to Dave Meltzer, he was found dead in Steven Richards' house.

WWE.com had this statement:

Michael Lockwood passes away

World Wrestling Entertainment is saddened by the loss of Michael Lockwood, known professionally as Crash Holly. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Michael's friends and family.

credit: wwe.com, wrestlingobserver.com

[CounterCounterCulture]

Just damn, yet another young wresting death

[CounterCounterCulture]

Yet another wrestling death.

Recent passings include Stu Hart and Road Warrior Hawk. Now Crash Holly.

[billbears]

Wow, he was the younger of the two Hollys wasn't he? I know Hard core is going to be in the match on the next PPV coming up but I had wondered what happened to Crash. Hadn't seen him in awhile

[ambrose]

These wrestlers don't seem to last very long...

[CounterCounterCulture]

Crash was released a few months ago from the WWE.

[CounterCounterCulture]

WRESTLING DEATHS THIS YEAR

Crash Holly – November 6, 2003 (age 34)
Hawk (Michael Hegstrand) – October 19, 2003 (46)
Stu Hart -  October 16, 2003 (88)
Fred Blassie – June 2, 2003 (85)
Miss Elizabeth (Hulette) – May 1, 2003 (42)
Curt Hennig – February 10, 2003 (44)
The Sheik – January 18, 2003 

Those are the one I can remember. There may be others.

[xzins]

Steroids are exacting a toll on the younger ones.

But will we stop paying to see this? I doubt it.

[Sonny M]

Its a sad thing that whenever there is a wrestling ping, I know somone died.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

The Shiek died this year...as in iron shiek???I had not heard that Road Warrior Hawk died either. I remember watching him to a bench press show...Ivan Koloff intervened and kicked his arse while he wwas trying to lift.

[CounterCounterCulture]

No, not the Iron Sheik...the original Sheik

Here's the thread on Road Warrior Hawk ... Michael Hegstrand, "Hawk" of The Wrestling's Road Warriors, dead at 46

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Thanks and thanks for the ping!

[NewRomeTacitus]

HUGE smack to the chest
"Tell 'em, Hawk!"

"Wellllllll, since we've been back we've seen a lot of things we don't like. We don't like how you ain't got ayone here to compete against us. Tell 'em, Paul!
Then Precious Paul Ellering would deliver a rant that would make anything anyone else said after that seem sensical. That was very good for commercials.

[NewRomeTacitus]

"Michael Lockwood, aka Crash Holly and Mad Mikey, was found dead today in Florida. He was 34. According to Dave Meltzer, he was found dead in Steven Richards' house."

Weird because Lockwood was last working out of TNA and other mid-America independent promotions while his erstwhile buddy Stevie-Night Heat was on the WWE circuit.
I hope that Richards won't face the hassle's "Lex Luger" is still in for when friends die in one's household. Larry Phohl's prospects for a comeback died with Elizabeth's pharmaceutically-enhanced demise while in his care.

In this case Richards was probably just being a bud loaning "Crash" a place to crash. Not that he wouldn't try to profit from a scandal...(heel angle).

[rintense]

Road Warrior Hawk is dead?!?!?!?! Man, I loved the Road Warriors!!!!

[AppyPappy]

This may not have been steroids. At least not the direct cause.

You know it's getting bad when I don't know the wrestlers. This wasn't the guy who used a racing gimmick in the 90's was it?

[AppyPappy]

He gave his life to the Lord and the Lord called him home.

[Hatteras]

He was Bob Holly's "little brother" or cousin or something and always had a comical edge to his schtick. Always fighting for the "Hardcore" belt.

[Hatteras]

Curt Hennig died back in February of this year.

Also, it's been awhile (actually a few years) but the Junkyard Dog is on the list and years ago Adrian Adonis hit a moose and died...

[Skip Ripley]

He was booked as Bob "Hardcore" Holly's cousin. Bob Holly debuted as "Sparky Plugg" in the mid 90's.

Apparently this kid was quite a partier and his out of the ring habits may have played a role in his release from the WWE. Reports online indicate he may hve choked on vomit.
(insert Spinal Tap joke about dusting for vomit to prove its' origin)

I would have thought that Scott "alka" Hall or Tammy "sunny" Sytch would have been the next on the list of wrestling deaths.

[xzins]

Appy, you are correct that this could have been some as yet unrevealed congenital problem, or some unknown injury.

However, and we both know it, the huge muscle definition and bulk that's taking place in that sport defies any other explanation.

I'm trying to figure out if the sport can survive a ban on steroids, backing away from the bulked-up, falsely muscled men. What if WWE decreed "no more roids?" Do you think anyone would follow?