Along with being a former European, Light Heavyweight, and Tag Team Champion, Crash Holly will be mostly remembered as being the one who started the "24/7" rule after defeating Test in February of 2000. The next year, at the age of 19, Buddy Holly and The Crickets signed with Decca Records. Do check the Promotions tab if you cannot find it in the Primary Inbox. He achieved moderate success in the WWE, winning the WCW United States Championship and the WWE Tag Team Championship with DDP for a brief 12-day stint. Details of the bands highly anticipated launch of The MSG Sphere at The Venetian are finally being made official. She was just beautiful. Like us on Facebook. In the early hours on June 18, 2013, Hastings died in a single-vehicle automobile crash in his Mercedes C250 Coup. His toxicology report was positive for marijuana and amphetamines. An autopsy was performed last Thursday, but the coroner's office needs to receive toxicology reports before confirming a cause . Then there's Chyna, who legitimatized the WWE women's division, but fell out of the company's good graces (to put it lightly) in recent years. In 1993, going deeper into depression due to a number of factors, he committed suicide at the age of 33. Lou Diamond Phillips played Ritchie Valens (originally Valenzuela) in the 1987 hit movie La Bamba. Gary Busey played Holly in the 1978 movie The Buddy Holly Story., Don McLean, who was inspired by Hollys music, memorialized that day as The Day the Music Died in his 1971 song American Pie.. [14][15] WWF Talent Coordinator Bruce Prichard sent Lockwood to Mexico, to prepare him for the style of the WWF's lucha libre show, WWF Super Astros. [22] He frequently defended the championship against non-wrestlers, including referees and road agents, like Gerald Brisco and Pat Patterson. Though Kanyon battled with depression and bipolar disorder throughout his life ending in a 2010 suicide, the WWE hasn't exactly been proactive in honoring his life. In Memory: Professional Wrestlers Who Died Under 40 Michael Lockwood was best known in the WWE as the younger cousin, Crash Holly, to Hardcore Holly. She tried to fly home to Nashville with Hughes, who was also the planes pilot, the next day but heavy fog prohibited them from taking off. In the WWE, he teamed with "Zip" (better known as Dr. Tom Pritchard) as the Body Donnas. Be sure to Follow Crave Wrestling on Twitter and "Like" Crave Wrestling on Facebook. Crash Erin O'Grady Green Ghost Johnny Pearson Mad Mikey Roles: Singles Wrestler Tag Team Wrestler Beginning of in-ring career: 1989 The second came in 2009 and, just a few short months later, he was found dead as a result of a lethal mix of painkillers, muscle relaxers, and anti-anxiety medication. Their greatest success in the WWE was capturing the WWE Tag Team Championship in a tournament finals match against the Godwinns. The moment Patsy Cline's plane crash killed her was recorded on her wristwatch which stopped at 6:20 PM, on March 5, 1963. Crash Holly found dead at 34 | Slam Wrestling The presence of drugs and alcohol were found in his bloodstream, but his death certificate noted morbid obesity was a main cause of death, as well as type 2 diabetes heart damage. His parents, Lawrence Holley and Ella Pauline Drake, even wrote their local paper in support of rock and roll. For his achievements inside the ring, they inducted him into the 'Hardcore Hall of Fame.'. The stage name Patsy Cline came from her first marriage to a man named Gerald Cline and her middle name, Patterson. This video details the death of professional wrestler Crash Holly!