8 Professional Wrestling deaths in 2016

Modified Apr 25, 2019 12:40 GMT

2016 took away some of our most beloved wrestling legends

#4 Axl Rotten

This ECW legend's memory lives on forever

Hours before he was found dead in a McDonald's bathroom, Axl Rotten sent out a tweet that said – ‘The way I do things may not be the way you do things but you will find out there is only one way. My way.’ He was found dead from a heroin overdose.

Axl Rotten and his brother Ian found prominence wrestling for a tag team known as the Bad Breed but found even greater prominence once they translated their real life animosity into a feud of their own. Their program lasted for many months and led to them reuniting once again once it had culminated.

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Towards the end of his life, Rotten suffered a spinal injury and was confined to a wheelchair. It forced him to retire from the indies and live in a rehab facility in Salisbury.

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