Pretty upsetting. I watch with my 17 year old son, and he found out and came down to tell me. I don't know what to say...it's kind of part of being a wrestling fan unfortunately. But I've kind of been telling myself it's a different era, and a different promotion, and it's not like the days of these guys working 320 nights a year and being on the road 24/7 and needing to be roided up at all times. You want to believe those days of the lifestyle killing guys like flies is diminished.
But it's always going to be there to some extent, given just the sheer size of most of these men, and the physical toll on their bodies. I haven't seen the latest enough to know exactly what caused his lung problem, maybe it wasn't in any way related to wrestling, but I probably wanted to believe we wouldn't go through one of these, and that's unrealistic.
He was really peaking when he left the show, and we always had a bit of a soft spot for him being from our neck of the woods (as are Butcher and Blade and Shawn Spears). It's really hard to see him go like that.