Shane Douglas on HOW Kerry Von Erich Lost His FOOT

Shane Douglas on HOW Kerry Von Erich Lost His FOOT
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FU to you all! ECW Legend ”The Franchise” Shane Douglas once again dons his Dean mortarboard and breaks out the trusty ”Board of Education” to beat some wrestling sense into you... verbally speaking... every Tuesday, Shane Douglas will take a deep dive into a different subject, event or performer with his trademark intelligence, expert insight and take-no-prisoners, spin-no-bullsh*t attitude.
Without Shane Douglas, there would have been no ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
It was Douglas who, on Aug. 27, 1994, won a tournament to become the new NWA Heavyweight Champion, and then threw the title down and proclaimed the death of the National Wrestling Alliance and the birth of the ECW World Heavyweight Championship.
No other competitor on the ECW roster could have pulled off such a flagrant act of defiance with the poise of the man who declared himself ”The Franchise.” Indeed, it was Douglas’ unflappable confidence, poison tongue and hair-trigger temper that made him both a captivating personality and a sports-entertainment outlier better suited for the uncensored world of Extreme Championship Wrestling.
The Franchise did not start out this way, however. Trained alongside Mick Foley by Dominic DeNucci, Douglas skateboarded into WCW as one-half of the fun-loving Dynamic Dudes alongside John ”Johnny Ace” Laurinaitis in 1989. Looking like Zack Morris with his bleached blond mullet and neon high-tops, the upstart popped over to WWE in the early ’90s and then back to WCW where he developed rapidly during a championship partnership with Ricky ”The Dragon” Steamboat.
Douglas’ breakout as a singles star came in 1993 when he abandoned his white bread good guy act as ECW’s newest villain. Dispatching his hardcore opponents with a rough, technical style - Douglas always favored belly-to-belly suplexes over barbwire bats - the Pittsburgh native became the first champion of the rebranded Extreme Championship Wrestling, and the leader of The Triple Threat. An obvious challenge to his nemesis Ric Flair and his Four Horsemen, the group’s rotating cast of characters included Bam Bam Bigelow, Chris Candido and “Primetime” Brian Lee at different times.
A brief trip to WWE in 1995 became the career lowlight for Douglas as the Dean Douglas persona (based on the fact that he was formerly a school teacher) forced upon him failed to catch on with WWE fans who saw it as a retread of The Genius. When he returned to ECW, he had an even bigger chip on his shoulder. Now with his “head cheerleader” Francine by his side, The Franchise captured both the ECW Television and ECW World Heavyweight Titles while besting Chris Jericho, Bam Bam Bigelow, Sabu and many more.
After losing the ECW World Heavyweight Title to Tazz at the Guilty as Charged pay-per-view in 1999, Douglas returned to WCW for a strong two-year run as The Franchise. He won both the United States Title and the WCW Tag Team Titles (alongside Buff Bagwell) and captained competitors like Dean Malenko and Perry Saturn in an impressive faction known as Revolution.
With extra stops in TNA as a manager and wrestler, Extreme Revolution and a mainstay of the independent scene to this day, Shane Douglas has been involved with pro wrestling at every level for 40 years.
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[@ER1CK12]

I broke my foot once throwing away the trash. Didn’t need surgery but I prematurely walked on it and I still feel the pain. The fact that he wrestled like that is incredible. RIP Kerry.

[@hulkhoganstights6596]

My god your story is incredible

[@mrs.witchyperfect9846]

Kerry and Curt Hennig had GREAT matches. I love the one where Kerry's nose started bleeding and Curt gets this look on his face like what the heck and I guess whispers to Kerry if he was okay and Kerry said something back to him. But the moral of the story is that he got Curt to break character for a couple of seconds! Curt really admired Kerry since they were both second generations and gave each other great matches.

[@johncook9392]

Curt Hennig and Kerry Von Erich are 2 of the best of all time!

[@mrperfectisperfect0328]

@@johncook9392 Hey John come check me out

[@GameTime-yj6qv]

Shane always has very thoughtful responses and this is no exception. As a kid I had no idea part of Kerry's foot was missing. Its a testament to his toughness and how great of an athlete he was. I always felt had he stayed cleaned and stayed in the WWF into 1992, that he could have gone into the World Title picture. The Von Erichs are such a wrestling tragedy. Poor Kevin, the only surviving Von Erich sibling, has been through so much.

[@batmasterson1715]

When the Tornado came to the WWF I always did wonder why he wasn't more dynamic in the ring without knowledge of his foot.

[@QuartzMatrixed]

Good God. I cant imagine the feeling of the foot peg going through the leg/ankle and snapping bone.... that is insane that he tried to walk and it was the catalyst to him losing everything.

[@keithpearson7059]

I had one of my ( custom made ) dirt bike foot pegs go into my left calf when I was 16 , started 11th grade on crutches , ( I still have the scar .) Thankfully I recovered from that injury but not some others 😢😢

[@pandavelli8176]

@@keithpearson7059 I wrecked an old Honda 300 and as it rolled down the hill the handlebar apparently pierced the inside of my thigh and barely missed my femoral artery. I was already knocked out from the first flip, I just woke up with a big almost perfectly round hole in my leg lol. I have a massive scar and a big dent in my leg where the tissue was missing. It still hurts my muscle and knee sometimes. 4 wheelers can be dangerous.

[@davidcarper5411]

Yamaha vmax ate his foot

[@mamayl8592]

Tragic. Kerry could have been a megastar. He had it all.

[@Brook11223]

The mistake with Kerry is that he prematurely tried to walk getting out of the bed which he shouldn't have because he should've allowed the ankle to heal properly before trying to walk.

[@RoyStantz]

Kerry's foot was only lost not because of the bullshit Von Erich mythology that he got out of bed to find something to eat, but because Fritz insisted because attendance for WCCW was down that Kerry needed to work a match against the advice of the doctors - so Kerry was shot up with painkillers to do a short match with Brian Adias, and the damage sustained doing that led to Kerry's foot being amputated. Yeah, what a wonderful person Fritz was.

[@imtweetydiva29]

I wonder pressure from daddy 's expectations made him do it.

[@RoyStantz]

@@imtweetydiva29 Yes.

[@italvito]

More like, Kerry initially had successful foot surgery but under pressure from Fritz, Kerry returned to in ring action prematurely where he did irreversible damage to the foot that it needed to be amputated@@imtweetydiva29

[@italvito]

After that accident Kerry returned to the ring for a short time and then took more time off after.

[@brettriverboat9920]

You couldn't tell he was missing his foot, poor Kerry, what an athlete

[@barrybanks8679]

That could’ve been a good gimmick. A one foot wrestler that’s actually a pretty good wrestler as well.

[@DanielGarcia-us7tf]

The Iron Claw film takes place during the era of World Class Championship Wrestling. This is the territory of Fritz Von Erich and his sons. This is the era of Harley Race, Ric Flair, Bruiser Brody, Jerry Lawler, Kamala, The Missing Link and The Fabulous Freebirds. Rest in Peace Texas Tornado. The Iron Claw film shows the hardships and tragedies of the Von Erich family.

[@victoriamccord1557]

Well when he was the Texas Tornado in WWE, and if you look closely at his wrestling boots, the right wrestling boots seem thicker than the left wrestling boot. Then a couple months down the line he started wearing those fringes on his boots that kind of camouflage. The fact that one boot being the prosthetic, was actually thicker than the left boot.

[@J30witdaswitchyy]

@@barrybanks8679I think they lying😂😂😂😂

[@adamsifford6228]

He didn't want no one to know and he suffered from pain, and people didn't except things back then, and he didn't want any sympomny from anyone

[@mox19380]

appreciate the franchise's perspective. not exploitive or salacious just informational. i'd always heard that the true damage was him trying to come back to early to wrestle that resulted in the further damage to the ankle that required the prosthetic. i was never a big fan of KVE. since i saw wwf first, when kerry got there it felt like just another jacked up athlete with limited ring skills. but i admired the hell out of him for what he could do given his injuries and physical condition

[@artsyo4286]

Kerry was my introduction to Rush.

[@kagemaru259]

Imagine the heights Kerry would reached had he not had his accident and his demons with drugs.

[@pl5624]

It wasn't a quad as pictures of his crashed bike are out there...he clipped a police car wearing nothing but tights.

[@magazineretriever9036]

Looking back on Kerry Von Erich's walk to the ring, you can actually see his somewhat unusual gait. He dips a bit to one side when he walks.

[@multi150nyc]

Yup I remember his gait. It was noticeable in the ring as he made his entrance and acknowledged the crowd from all directions.

[@TNTORNADO]

Why did he say he's done with motorcycles and motorcycles are silly, in an interview from the hospital after the surgery.... if it was a quad

[@celieboo]

I ruptured both achilles tendons playing basketball in a rec league, first the right and then the left about a year to the day of the first injury. I purposely chose traditional surgery and casting over treatment with a boot because I knew that I was stubborn and would try to walk to early. A traditional cast made that impoasible. The recovery from an achilles rupture is labor intensive and stretching out your shortebed tendon is excruciating pain. Learning how to walk again (o had to do it twice), was hard as hell. And I had both feet. After going through that, I can not imagine the incredible mental and physical strength it took for Kerry to do professional wrestling without a foot and a poorly functioning prosthetic.

[@JefferyAshmore]

I tore mine and calf muscles another 12 weeks apart did boot thing and regret it ever since. I have ehlers danlos tore alot of muscles and nerves. Should of had surgery.

[@WilliamSmith-zg6vp]

That split second reflection about his brother in 2020 gave me a 😢. Sorry, man i think ur shoots even outdo your in ring career ur a great storyteller

[@francissobotka8725]

Kerry should of been wwf champion .He was the real deal even half stepping around.

[@BuccWylde]

Well, Flair did agree to drop the NWA heavyweight title to him in Dallas at Fritz's wrestling promotion WCCW. It was outdoors and drew a huge crowd, but he was world champ for a few weeks.

[@mcgannahanskyjellyfetti6854]

I was thinking that Shane found Kerry's foot in one of the Target isles...

[@coyboybc]

Such a shame that this whole family had to go through so much

[@jamesplaysgames3574]

I want to know how and when Shane realized that Deep Purple's Perfect Stranger was a perfect entrance theme.

[@mosalacommodore6993]

I lost my foot two years ago. I only just learned to walk again a month ago. I have no idea how kerry was able to wrestle with this injury. Ive always felt some sort of connection to him, even before i lost my leg.

[@rustywagner30]

People also have ghost pains with missing limbs fingers what not

[@VyceryonNet]

…Wait, Shane didn’t deny the speculation, so Kerry basically cost himself his foot by being stupid? What the hell, 1) Why would you try to walk on a foot that’s obviously not even close to healed, to shatter just under your own weight, and 2) what promotion was this/why was a major star, able to be ANYWHERE in the backstage area of a wrestling show? Granted it’s however many decades later, but pregnant women, stars or managers aren’t allowed backstage until they give birth, as being backstage you risk getting knocked over by boys being boys or whatever, was someone who was flirting with amputation really a good idea to allow backstage, much less the locker room?

[@Allen7]

Ooooh damn, i didnt had a clue..

[@david29497]

I never would have known Kerry had his foot cut off.

[@itheuserfirst3186]

I had no idea that he was facing jail time due to his addiction. It would have been a huge scandal for the family if he went to prison. I can see why it might have been the final straw for him. At that point, he had a ruined marriage, a ruined career, a missing foot, a severe drug addiction, two dead brothers, and he was facing jail time. Ugh. What a tragedy. I do wonder how much time he was facing.

[@eduhred5341]

Actually 4 dead brothers. You probably forgot about Chris and they had one die at a very young when he was a kid.

[@romeo8334]

I heard his brother say he got up to cook a hamburger before his foot healed up , Kevin that's what he said

[@BusterGutts]

You’re close. My family is in the wrestling business and he was in a motel room and had left a bag of cheeseburgers on the dresser. His addiction was cheeseburgers. He got up to walk over to get the bag and severely injured his ankle which had to be amputated. Everything else I see in comments are just rumors.

[@mikemartin5073]

I very nearly did the same thing and am very lucky that I didn't lose the foot

[@davidpatriot1082]

33 years old...

[@wagsoman]

if that story is true about kerry von erich injuring his ankle that's truly sad. basically he got injured because he was worried about law enforcement coming on his private property. he could have avoided the whol situation by continuing to drive the ATV up the hill

[@phillipobaker]

It had nothing to do with the foot peg. He put his foot out instinctively before impacting the cop car.

[@AlaborJinta]

doesnt say how he lost it...

[@suninrobrobinsun3039]

That pain is unbearable, some don’t have a clue ✅

[@gamerfourlife64]

Wait he had no foot an still could go like that in the ring thats amazing talent right there

[@joeriveracomedy]

Technically, Kerry won every battle royal he entered.

[@johnnybeefum]

HE'S HERE ALL WEEK LADIES & GENTLEMAN

[@donjohn2695]

Kerry won the 1991 royal rumble and the 1992 royal rumble it was just never acknowledged

[@markdejonge937]

flair won the 92 rumble cause the wwe title was on the line@@donjohn2695

[@elp3035]

I'm a Prosthetist assistant. And the fact that he could wrestle with a px from that era is insane.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

I think he’s got it wrong. I think he missed part of it, not the whole foot. This same channel had an interview this week that said “he lost it in Japan”. Now it’s Texas. Then the story was he walked across his hospital room to get a cheeseburger and that’s how it got messed up. I like these guys but so many just make stuff up. I’ve been in recovery ten years for opiates. I’ve been working with addicts ever since. Shane swears he was on like 200 milligrams of OxyContin a day and “just locked myself in a room and kicked the habit” Since that statement I haven’t believed a word out of his mouth. 200 milligrams or more of OxyContin a day even with a super high tolerance would kill you before you had time to get help and you ain’t kicking in a room alone like some movie scene. I was on almost 20 10mg Percocet a day just to not be sick and it took ten years to get to that level. A few years ago I had surgery and took two 10mg Percocet. Within an hour I was shallow breathing and probably on my way out. One wasn’t working to my liking so I did what I used to do and upped it. Not smart. Sorry to bore you with a long reply but as the kids say the math isn’t mathing lol. Prosthetics weren’t that great in the 80’s

[@gurnblanston5000]

​@@tobysgamingworld1550I saw the match where his boot came off and he went underneath the ring. Can't recall his opponent or where it occurred. Early KZbin days. It was removed at the mid-shin. Anytime the heel is crushed, 98% of the time the Dr's recommend amputation as there have been few replacements. It's coming, but the procedure needs expanding to every state.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

@@gurnblanston5000 I don’t know. I’ve heard my entire life it was part of his foot which makes sense given where prosthetics were available back then. Whole foot? Just running the ropes would be impossible

[@gurnblanston5000]

@@tobysgamingworld1550 He had memory foam padding I'd guess. Foot and lower shin bones were removed.

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

@@gurnblanston5000 in 87-89? Memory foam? They’re saying the entire foot meaning a nub slipped into a boot? I’m sorry it just doesn’t add up. Not how he was running and climbing

[@jimtheyid]

Never knew this ,The Texas Tornado was insanely good .

[@tobysgamingworld1550]

He missed part of his foot. Prosthetics weren’t that great in the 80’s to where he could bounce around with no foot. The story has been different every time it’s been told.

[@jefflayne9448]

It's interesting that Shane indicates Kerry lost his foot riding a Quad and not a motorcycle. I've never heard this before. Wonder if there's any truth to this or if Shane just has his facts mixed up.

[@1manarmy850]

I heard motorcycle

[@donniemorton162]

Kerry is and always be my favorite all time

[@CptGoode]

The movie is Mid at best they left chris von eric out of the story they really skipped threw alot without time stickers and who ever played ric flair was pure trash mjf is not even really featured in the film is Lance von eric nor do they really tell the story of wccw its just more of a fast paced film from Kevin's pov of life with his family which is crazy seeing he had little to nothing to do with the film I gave the film a 6/10 after the screening

[@MrAac1984]

I 100% agree with you! I was so disappointed with the movie! They just tried to squeeze in the rainbow and unicorns. I think Kevin Von Erich was a little more involved or the director had Kevin’s feelings in his thoughts. If I would have wrote the movie all that in ring stuff wouldn’t be in the film. It would be the relationship of the Von Erich boys with Fritz. The partying and all that stuff would be in the film. I think they showed maybe 1 5 min scene at a party. You are generous with your score I’m T 3/10

[@TheSophisticatedSavage]

I watched him as a kid He was the Ultimate Warrior except he could wrestle Look Size Strength

[@bearmcquade2846]

Grow up fort worth Texas. Love the family ❤

[@DIESEL0759]

Had Kerry lived, he would have been a Hogan-level star. WWF/E would have rolled him out as a huge star, "overcoming adversity" kind of thing. Zach Gowen didn't have the talent to live up to the hype enough for WWE to do anything with him. Kerry had the look AND the talent. It's a shame he had so much pain, both physically and emotionally.

[@Dad-Gad]

You do know that WWF fired him right ?

[@DIESEL0759]

@@Dad-Gad ...and? What does one have to do with the other? Shane Douglas was fired, too. So was Zach Gowen. Do you have a point somewhere? Or are you offering a little factoid that isn't relevant to anything else, but you wanted to boast how you have worked backstage in WWF for more than 80 years, booking it every day for the last 90 years, been tight with Vince McMahon, being the guy he always went to with questions and suggestions and know every single inner working of wrestling from 1847?

[@bearmcquade2846]

Dallas Texas love the Von Erich family❤

[@DavidDamron-kh8kp]

I wanna see movie

[@ROCCO-TV]

I like soup

[@downhomefam]

Back in 2018 I had some insomnia issues so I was given a new sleep medicine and it caused me to have bad dreams. One night while sleepwalking in a area no bigger than a blue tote I managed to twist and break my ankle and fibula. 1st operation was a failure due to a bone being surprising crushed ,2nd operation the ankle wouldn't heal, I could walk on it but would swell to look like my foot was going to explode, 3 operation ankle fusion that didn't fuse also massive complications 5 day coma. By the 4th operation I had mentally had enough and basically came to the realization the foot ankle and part of my lower leg had to go. In 2021 I became a lower leg amputee. I totally understand where Kerry was coming from when he said ,without the ankle to work properly it does cause a huge impact on shock absorption.

[@homercorrea7940]

Doesn't Shane Douglas look and sounds like comedian-actor Tom Arnold?

[@markbruschi6391]

He lost his hand too but fortunately he got another at a second hand store. There is no second foot store.

[@ThisIsAled]

Could listen to Shane talk all day. I never saw much of him as a performer but one of the best to listen talk about the business.

[@xTBrown13x]

Kerry was one of the greatest athletes to ever step foot (lol) in the squared circle

[@Jonathanos12]

My leg broke below the knee, my bones came out of my leg and some is missing. I was made to walk and put weight on it asap but for the first week i couldnt move and i had a catheter. I was awake while a catheter was put in and taken out. That was awful. I also had my entire face shattered and have 8 titanium plates in my face and severe brain damage in the same accident. They gave me lots of fentanyl. After the hospital i was not allowed pain meds anymore and im a little surprised. My friends can hurt their back and get a prescription but im not allowed anything.

[@cheryl2962]

That's probably when his drug problem started. You get pain medicine and you can get hooked on them. Loved watching Kerry!

[@mrchopsticks3]

He says as much at 3:25.

[@davidmreyes77]

The only way you could tell there was something off about his foot is to go back and watch those WWF matches and his right boot was always a little thicker than the left boot. I really noticed it during his televised debut against Buddy Rose on Saturday Nights Main Event from 1990.

[@lpn8585]

I sprained my ankle real bad twice in my teens and prematurely walked on it now at 38 I have arthritis in there.

[@beardlifeman]

Great podcast per usual what movie is coming out?

[@ashtonhaggitt216]

The Iron Claw. Movie about the Von Erichs family. Looks pretty damn good.

[@jimbowlan5804]

Iron claw with Zack effon

[@jovangarcia1876]

What is the movie called? And is about Kerry or is it about his family. And he was very talented

[@TheRealDannAlexander]

Iron claw is the name of it. I think it’s out in December But I do know it’s about the family.

[@vaughnfry8410]

Does this kid interview wrestlers all day long?

[@davec.3129]

Wow. That is incredible

[@adrianprieto2195]

Eyeballed You since the ECW days✊🏼

[@Jordonarkyn]

If you listen to this without watching the video. I’d swear Seth Rogan was talking lol

[@travisneighbors3691]

Bam Bam almost told the story, or a variant of it that went something along the lines of Kerry was running from a bad drug deal and he dumped the bike.

[@chrischar9428]

F BIGELOW

[@isaacencarnacion5514]

Blew my mind when I found out he was The Texas Tornado without the foot. I had seen some matches prior to his WWF run but didn’t know about the accident until years later.

[@cultofgeeks]

I'm sort of new to the channel but I would like to know about Shane filling in for Shawn Michaels and teaming with Marty Jannetty as the Rockers in Summer of 1990 when Shawn's knee was hurt

[@bluntamainia444]

That’s a good topic

[@donjohn2695]

News to me about that Shawn's knee injury was a work and why would Shane fill in anyway?

[@cultofgeeks]

No his knee injury wasn't a work, that's why at the 1990 SummerSlam when they took on Power & Glory that they jumped Shawn at the start of the match and Shawn never got involved bc he was too injured to wrestle. You can kind of tell that he's favoring his knee a bit during their entrance. And Shane only filled in at house shows, he never filled in during TV tapings.

[@cultofgeeks]

Dave Meltzer mentions it in the August 18, 1990 edition of the wrestling observer as well.

[@vinnievenus3570]

Interesting. Marty was mostly easy going. Like Shane. Shawn wasn’t easy going. Shane and Marty would make a good team. In my opinion. I’ll google it

[@thefreestylefrEaK]

David said Kerry was shirtless riding a motorcycle on a public road doing 60 mph and was going to pass a cop car (toying with the cop since he knew him) when it made a left turn in front of him and he dove over the cop car but his right foot got caught and mangled in the process.

[@rickmather7062]

How much of the foot exactly was gone?

[@vernongrant3596]

How much of Kerry's foot was actually missing?

[@victoriamccord1557]

below the knee. If you look closely at his right leg, you can see his boot was larger than his left boot. When a foot is amputated, the doctors remove right below the knee to have better movement with a prosthetic.

[@vernongrant3596]

@@victoriamccord1557 shows what a super athlete he was to move so well with a prosthetic. Thanks for the information.

[@dantemiles4809]

The story I got was that he was in the hospital he was medicated not realizing how bad his foot was and tried to go to bathroom and damaged his foot more

[@gobo6175]

Think Kevin said something like that in the WWE doc on wccw

[@chrischar9428]

Cover for dad rushing him back

[@wilfred8326]

I heard he walked across a room to get a sandwich 🥪 or cheeseburger 🍔... The other rumor was his foot was almost torn off 😳 in a cycle accident, Kerry was on a motorcycle 🏍 and he somehow hit a 🚔, this ankle/foot was shattered torn AROUND, it was repaired w/micro-surgery but w/ David dead (RIP), Mike not Measuring up 😢, and fans not wanting a Fake Von Erich (Lance), Kevin was doing overtime and Kerry was rushed back faster than needed. Reportedly his foot was drugged up and taped BUT that wasn't enough to protect the cartilage and tendons from damage 😮....

[@donjohn2695]

He was told not to walk on it and take it easy but Kerry being reckless continued to party and just made his injury to his foot worse

[@wilfred8326]

@donjohn2695 100% believable as is being put back into the ring too early....

[@hammadali545]

Need a better intro

[@lordcolinb]

😊

[@itheuserfirst3186]

Interesting that no one else seems to know that it was a four wheeler he was riding on the property, and not a motorcycle. Still, so many details left out. Did he really destroy his foot on a dare in a locker room? Why was a cop car there and howdid the peg pierce his foot?

[@lamontbills2842]

I remember that I just didn't know he lost his foot 👣 I thought flair had broke his ankle is the cage match he was my favorite von Erich he wrestled better than anybody with two feet I was hurt still to dis day rip

[@davidharden7575]

Blessings to you for being so conscientious to him that you allowed him to cover up every time. That took a lot of awareness and not many people in the world cares about others to be so gracious. Only a certain kind of person is like that.

[@cjempire1188]

Whoever called police over something petty I hope they understand the ripple effects of Their actions..

[@danevertt3210]

Why is he so gassy in all of these new interviews?? It’s like he’s in a pepto commercial

[@MrAce-lm8es]

Kerry really WAS "The Modern Day Warrior" to wrestle with a broken foot.

[@Lonnyboss70]

Shane i wanted to know have you gotten a call to be in the new wrestle code video game?

[@ChannelEleven59]

What I am about to say is not to condemn anyone that has committed suicide. I have friends that have taken that way out. This is for anyone considering suicide. The pains of this life can be overcome. It will be difficult. It may not ever completely go away while we are alive. Yes it will hurt and it will seem like there is no other way. However, the eternal pain and suffering that we will endure in hell (which is where I firmly believe we will go if we commit suicide) is infinitely worse and never ending. We will be begging for our earthly problems of depression, addiction, prison, and other pains. Please don't take that way out. I want us all to be able to rejoice in heaven one day. I love all of you reading this.

[@shaneilogo2100]

Which foot? How much of it was amputated?

[@johndelena_plus1goofballs]

mid shin.

[@victoriamccord1557]

right leg

[@markbeebe125]

Boy I'd love to be in that theater watching my all-time favorite story in the history of the business, and taking it in with arguably my favorite wrestler in the history of the business. I was lucky enough to grow up in the Mid-Atlantic territory, started watching their studio wrestling as an 8-year-old in 1978. Got to see a whole lot of Ric flair versus Ricky Steamboat. Matches that are most likely lost to history but if not will certainly never see the light of day. Coincidentally we happen to move to Upstate New York in 1984 just as hulkamania wrestlemania and Vince's expansion were all happening. And I was right in the heart of their original Territory. Then luckily in 1994 I had been away in college and had made a couple friends that were Big Time wrestling fans, one who went on to a long career in media that actually yielded him a lot of good connections in both promotions and wrestling that led to a whole lot of front row seats for us during the Monday night wars......and another who actually made a minor career in the business. I believe he started off wrestling in NWA Southwest and I lost track of him over the years but he never did hit the big time. One good thing about hanging out with these guys besides having somebody to split PPV costs with back in the early 90s, was that they were into the tape trading scene. And I got to see some cool stuff that most people didn't, like herb Abrams uwf, funk and cactus and the death matches in japan, and my favorite of them all Eastern championship wrestling and Shane being involved in one of the most pivotal angles in the history of the business if you ask me. Throwing that NWA belt down, while sacrilegious in a sense, and kudos to Paul for coming up with it, was a huge turning point and an amazing organic way to start a promotion that still resonates to this day with people. And then luckily because I was in New york, and living in college so I had cable, I got channels from downstate that showed ECW during that incredible first run in 94 and 95 and wow did I become a franchise fan after that aft. Not a lot of people have all three of the big things that you need to succeed the business, but Shane did. An acumen for it, an understanding of the psychology etc. The physical tools and the execution to be good in the ring. And of course the last but not least, being good on the stick. And for that reason, because he was good at all three and because of how pivotal he was in the launching of such an important promotion as well as it's further success throughout the years, I put Shane up there as, like I said, probably one of my top three at least, if not my all-time favorite. I was friends with the Destroyer, Dick Beyer. Another guy who was good at all three facets and like Shane vs was hugely important in the initial ramp up of Japanese wrestling working closely with baba but also being part of the single most watched event in the history of television. His match with Rikidozan just before his death in 63, had something like 70 million people watching it. Making it bigger than any of the super bowls and bigger than the last episode of mash..... So admittedly it's hard for me to put anybody ahead of my friend Dick. I guess maybe if I could go to that theater and share that popcorn, who knows? Shane would probably take over that number one spot lol. Actually I don't live that far from Pittsburgh in the greater scheme of things, why don't you look me up Troy.

[@vinnievenus3570]

You put a 44 to your chest, that ain’t a cry for help. Your serious about leaving. Oh? Really? I like Shane. Something about Shane I like. Tonight I walk with my brothers. Said Kerry

[@mr.c4p]

glad it had nothing to do with mel phillips

[@barrybanks8679]

A one foot wrestler could’ve been a good gimmick.

[@hitmangfx7162]

Totally unrelated to the current topic: I continue to be amazed how big of a deal the Stone Roses are, considering how little music they've released. I LIKE them, but I'm shocked how big of an impression the band has left. I think if not for the song they had in Guitar Hero III, most Americans would not have even heard of them. As for Kerry, I thought he looked relatively immobile in WWF as the Texas Tornado. Very methodical, very deliberate, but nothing that required a sense of speed. The claw and the discus punch were indeed explosive, but I barely remember much else about him.

[@johnnybeefum]

"Fool's Gold" was being played in the background for one of the topical cable news shows but what do they have to do with the video?

[@hitmangfx7162]

@@johnnybeefum There's a Stone Roses poster in the background.

[@Matt-zp1jn]

It was called the “Tornado Punch”, not the “discus punch”.

[@hitmangfx7162]

@@Matt-zp1jn You may sit down now. You have typed your internet commnet and succeeded in conributing nothing to society.

[@McDickMunch]

I heard it said Kerry heard his dead brothers calling him. Thats chilling. Poor guy.

[@DavidLawrenceGarcia]

No foot? Maybe the little piggies ran off with his foot .. maybe create a new technique called stump foot slam

[@dwightsoon4764]

Shane is a classic

[@McDickMunch]

Shane Douglas should be in the HOF... Wm is in philly this year induct him.

[@jonathanduplantis1403]

You could see the awkwardness of Kerry, especially near the end. Stoned