oops!
Posted on 08/13/2007 12:07:55 PM PDT by CounterCounterCulture
By GREG OLIVER - Producer, SLAM! Wrestling
According to WWE.com, Bryan Adams, who worked as Demolition Crush and was half of the KroniK tag team, has been found dead. He was 43.
WWE.com said no other details were available.
Adams was a boxer in the U.S. Air Force, stationed in Japan, when Antonio Inoki discovered him and talked me into going into professional wrestling. When his time in the service was up, he trained in the New Japan dojo for a year.
In the United States, Adams debuted in the Pacific Northwest in 1986, which was one of the few remaining territories left. He was named The American Ninja under a mask, and teamed with "The Grappler" Len Denton as The Wrecking Crew for a time. The duo held the Pacific Northwest Tag Team titles, feuding with Steve Doll and Rex King. Later in 1990, Adams was Pacific Northwest heavyweight champ. He lost the title to Scott Norton.
In 2006, Norton talked about Adams. "I always had a certain amount of respect for him, because he always thought everything through," Norton said. "He'd make the smallest decision, and he's sitting there, you ask him a question, and give him about two minutes. He'd think about every scenario, how this could go good, how it could go bad, Then he'd answer you. But he'd use his head. A lot of guys don't do that."
In the WWF in 1990, Adams was thrust into the Demolition tag team with Axe (Bill Eadie) and Smash (Barry Darsow). When the team dissolved, Crush returned to Oregon for a stint, then had a run as a "surfer-type" singles babyface in the WWF.
After leaving the WWF in 1997, Adams resurfaced in WCW and joined the New World Order faction. He was never more than a mid-card wrestlers for the promotion, until the tag team KroniK was formed when Adams was paired with Bryan Clark. The duo would hold WCW's tag team titles on two occasions.
The titles were a compliment to their abilities, said Clark in a 2005 interview with New Path Productions. "It meant a lot to us. I wish we'd have gotten the push we deserved instead of being held back so that we could have remained champions."
In an interview with the same website, Adams talked about Clark. "Bryan is a great partner, we're a soul team. We knew what each other's next move was without a word between us. That's a real tag team."
KroniK was brought into the WWF after the purchase of WCW, a part of the Alliance storyline. The team would feud with Undertaker and Kane.
That was the last prominent run for Clark. He bounced around the Japanese and American scene, and injured his back in January 2003. He had been working as a bodyguard to Randy "Macho Man" Savage.
Anne Murray could sing.
I liked her bird song.
:-)
Is she a bitch?
From the South Park movie, the song called “Blame Canada” - about how Canadians are behind the corruption of our youth. ;)
oops!
Not to worry - if you haven’t seen the movie, there’s no way you’d have known that! :)
I haven't seen the movie, and I'm missing a lot of allusions to it. I think it is only American of me to go see it.
I should warn you: it is INCREDIBLY offensive. If it does not offend you in some way, there is something seriously wrong with you.
That said, it’s truly hilarious.
:-)
http://www.411mania.com/wrestling/news/58369/Update-on-the-Death-of-Brian-Adams.htm
Thanks for the wrestling bump!
Didn’t Canned Heat have the “most deaths the quickest”?
I looked ‘em up, only one of them died in the bands heyday, but 3 of the original 4 are appear to be playing with the heavenly band.
Canned Heat was the first “rock” concert that I went to. I was in middle school, so I’m thinking it must have been 1969 or 1970, Loyola College in Baltimore.
I’m afraid that’s true. And it will probably happen sooner or later.
FOX gave it a passing glance this morning. Anyone know if Vince acknowledged it last night? I opted for Hell’s Kitchen instead.
He was a good guy. I’m sure the guy who complains about the mullet is just plain ugly as hell. He only wishes people looked up to him. We’ll miss you Brian.
I watched the beginning of RAW last night specifically to see if they would acknowledge Adams' passing. There was no mention of it at all. I'm sure Vinnie Mac doesn't want to call any attention to yet another wrestler dying so young.
Why am I not surprised?
Sometimes I wish Vince would just shut it down.
Former pro wrestler Brian "Crush" Adams died last month after accidentally ingesting a lethal mixture of prescribed medications, the medical examiner's office said Friday.
The 44-year-old Tampa resident died Aug. 13 from mixing a strong painkiller with muscle relaxants and two different types of sedatives, said Dr. Leszek Chrostowski from the Hillsborough County medical examiner's office.
Chrostowski said he found "therapeutic levels" of each of the drugs in his system, but the mixture slowed his respiratory system enough to kill him.
There were no anabolic steroids in Adams' body, a report from the office said.
The drugs that killed Adams included buprenorphine, an opiate-based painkiller that Chrostowski said is often used like methadone in the treatment of painkiller addiction; carisoprodol, a muscle relaxant; and sedatives chlordiazepoxide and alprazolam.
What a shame. Thanks for letting us know.
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