DA Baracus Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 22 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: All that partying with John Belushi after WM2 has rotted his brain Give him a break, he's tired after those gigs with Metallica and doing 400 day years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ludo*1 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Terry Funk is hugely underappreciated. Truly up there as one of the top wrestlers ever. And then became a true hard-core legend in his later years. WWE packaging him as Chainsaw Charlie was a pity. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieStevenson Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AFCDannyFTH Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Absolutely mental. 36 years old FFS. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoon Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 At a loss for words. Him & Brodie within 3 years of each other, heartbreaking. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave1875 Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Close to being cleared as well, horrendous news 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_diamond Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 That's just awful! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeArab Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 WTF? That’s horrific. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hoose Rice Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Thats shan as f**k. Absolutely gobsmacked. RIP Bray 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FifeArab Posted August 24, 2023 Share Posted August 24, 2023 Up at 6 ish for day shift but can’t sleep just now, so shocked. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RossBFaeDundee Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Can't really comprehend news like that for a while. Absolute tragedy, a massive gut punch to all of wrestling. Was struggling to come to terms with Terry Funk passing as it was. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieStevenson Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 damn 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoon Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 2 minutes ago, JamieStevenson said: damn f**k 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sherrif John Bunnell Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 That news is a kick to the stomach. I didn't always appreacite the creative direction he was put in, but the guy was a hell of a presence who always got his character over. Rest in peace. big man. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 It just never, ever fails to stop shocking you. Honestly. I'm at a complete and utter loss for words. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bert Raccoon Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Genuinely in shock at this. Love or loathe his character work, he always came across as a thoroughly decent human being. RIP big chap 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 That’s a real shocker. Absolutely no age at all. RIP big guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gianfranco Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 Only 36 ffs. I probably enjoyed his run with Daniel Bryan the most but he was a great character. Life is short people. Enjoy yourselves. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGoon Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 SmackDown to basically be a full on tribute show tonight, as it should. Not much notice but they’ll knock it out the park. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djchapsticks Posted August 25, 2023 Share Posted August 25, 2023 (edited) I think when all is said and done and the dust settles on his tragic death, folk in years from now are going to look at Bray's body of work in the same way they do with legends of the business. He was that good from a story telling perspective. I always loved and was intrigued by Waylon Mercy as a wee guy and even more so as an adult... the terrifying nice guy and that got cut short by injury. So it stands to reason that Wyatt who picked the bones of that character and turned it into the swamp dwelling cult leader is one of my absolute favourite wrestling characters ever. He was truly a one-off, a guy who had whatever 'It' was in absolute spades and then some and a mind for storytelling that was really second to none. There was always criticism and a lot of it merited. He didn't need a title... his character was so overpowered that it made whoever he worked with automatically look weak... he didn't have any proper creative focus on his character and the latter stuff especially was rambling. But there's absolutely no denying that the guy was 100% box office. One of the top guys in the world whose mere absence and reappearances generated buzz like no other except perhaps CM Punk or prime Y2J. Folk will truly appreciate what he was and what they had now that he's not here. The Wyatts vs The Shield through 2016 was one of the only things keeping me tuned into WWE at a time where overall, the product was fucking dire and Bray was the key factor in that. A character with so much potential, so many layers. It's tragic that you feel he never got the chance to tell the Bray Wyatt story that he wanted to on his return, that pales in comparison though to the devastation of leaving behind four children and a fiancé who will only ever tell them stories of their daddy as he was gone in his mid-30s. Honestly fucking awful. You'd think having been a fan of wrestling for over 30 years, you'd be somewhat desensitised to the tragic death of people long before their time - it's happened often enough - but you never truly are. Bray and Brodie are two of the genuinely sorest ones I've felt since Eddie Guerrero. Especially when you hear how genuinely good a human being he was and that's not anyone blowing smoke - enough folk like Taker, Amanda Huber, Strowman, Cena, HHH etc spoke glowingly of his character whilst living that you know nobody is just paying lip service to the dead. His legacy, in ring at least, will be absolutely talked about for years, decades to come. He was far ahead of his time but that's scant consolation to anyone right now. Edited August 25, 2023 by djchapsticks 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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