The Wrestler Kanyon found dead

• Enforcer

  

  Just read on 411 Wrestling, Kanyon was Found dead of an Overdose , They are ruling it a Suicide . He was 40 years old
• End of Line

  

  Damn.............
• Society

  This is a shocker.
• BR1986FB

  Not really a shocker with all of the drugs and early deaths in the business.
• devil1197

  Who?
• BR1986FB

  devil1197 wrote: Who?

  Chris Kanyon. He was a popular worker in WCW for awhile.
• devil1197

  I remember him now after googling his name.
• Enforcer

  

  Wasnt he know as Mortis for a while?
• Heretic

  

  Enforcer wrote: Wasnt he know as Mortis for a while?

  Yes. He started out as a jobber, then became Mortis for a while and then became Kanyon.
• Little Danny

  

  If I recall he was a foil for DDP for a while. I was half expecting both he and DDP to return to TNA since they seem to like picking up the WCW retreads.
• BR1986FB

  Little Danny wrote: If I recall he was a foil for DDP for a while. I was half expecting both he and DDP to return to TNA since they seem to like picking up the WCW retreads.

  I Googled Page and was surprised to see that he is now a yoga guru and had actually sued Jay-Z over the "diamond cutter" symbol that he (DDP) has trademarked.
• End of Line

  

  ^^^^^I totally forgot about that lawsuit.
• Enforcer

  

  Yeah the lawsuit was a few years back , never did hear how it turned out?
• Big Red Monster

  A couple years ago I can remember he came out and announced he was gay. He also suffered from Bipolar Disorder, I hope that had nothing to do with this.
  
  I really liked the Mortis character and thought WCW could have done alot more with it.
  
  http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/former-wwe-wrestler-chris-kanyon-found-dead.html
• BR1986FB

  Big Red Monster wrote: A couple years ago I can remember he came out and announced he was gay. He also suffered from Bipolar Disorder, I hope that had nothing to do with this.
  
  I really liked the Mortis character and thought WCW could have done alot more with it.
  
  http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/former-wwe-wrestler-chris-kanyon-found-dead.html

  Read that link you posted. That's rich if they fired him for being gay considering McMahon had Pat Patterson working for him forever. :rolleyes:
• Big Red Monster

  That is the same thought I had.
• Chesapeake

  

  BR1986FB wrote:

  Big Red Monster wrote: A couple years ago I can remember he came out and announced he was gay. He also suffered from Bipolar Disorder, I hope that had nothing to do with this.
  
  I really liked the Mortis character and thought WCW could have done alot more with it.
  
  http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/former-wwe-wrestler-chris-kanyon-found-dead.html

  Read that link you posted. That's rich if they fired him for being gay considering McMahon had Pat Patterson working for him forever. :rolleyes:

  Vince played it down but it was the reason they fired him to avoid conflict with the rest of roster.
  
  I think there were several superstars making threats that they would leave the company.
  
  Pat Patterson wasn't making advances toward other guys backstage like Kanyon was.
• Chesapeake

  

  The same thing happened to Orlando Jordan.
• BR1986FB

  Chesapeake wrote: Pat Patterson wasn't making advances toward other guys backstage like Kanyon was.

  You might want to check that. Patterson had his "boys." If they had a certain "look", Patterson wanted them.
  
  Patterson was all about one of the guys who got trained in the class before me. When RAW was in Cleveland, that guy played a cop (he actually was one and a worker) who got choke slammed by the Big Show.
• darbypitcher22

  

  wow, suprising....
• Ytowngirlinfla

  

  I remember him on Howard Stern show talking about how he was openly gay. Pretty good interview.
• Jughead

  

  Sad, he was one of the true innovators of wrestling in his WCW days.
• Heretic

  

  Big Red Monster wrote: A couple years ago I can remember he came out and announced he was gay. He also suffered from Bipolar Disorder, I hope that had nothing to do with this.
  
  I really liked the Mortis character and thought WCW could have done alot more with it.
  
  http://www.wrestling-edge.com/wwe-news/former-wwe-wrestler-chris-kanyon-found-dead.html

  A newsbit I read after he killed himself stated that due to his bipolar, he had apparently had issues strong enough to be considered a suicide risk beforehand. So I would guess that being bipolar played a big role in his death. It's a real shame...on 411mania.com, they have a wrestling news bit about what different wrestling people Tweeted about his death and it seems a lot of people in the business really liked him and his passion for the industry. Gregory Helms had a funny anecdote stating that after getting released from WWE, he went to Vince and asked him to give the "YERRRR FIIIRRREEEDDDDD!!!!!" treatment.
• RelsonGracieBJJ

  

  Wow.. Imagine that. Another ILLEGAL drug related death. LOL. Who says drugs aren't harmful.