Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow dead at 45

[zeptron]

Sorry if this has already been posted

WWE.com has learned that former WWE Superstar Scott "Bam Bam" Bigelow has passed away in Florida.

Kevin Doll, the Public Information Director for the Pasco County Sheriff's Office confirmed that Bigelow was found dead early this morning in his home in Hudson, Fla.

"We can confirm that Scott Bigelow was found in his home this morning. At this time the cause of death is unknown," Doll told WWE.com.

Doll also confirmed that the Pasco-Pinellas Counties medical examiner has taken the body and an autopsy will be performed.

Bigelow, 45, worked for WWE, ECW and WCW extensively throughout his 20-year sports-entertainment career. A former ECW Champion, ECW Television Champion and WCW Tag Team Champion, he is perhaps best known for his rivalry with Lawrence Taylor that culminated in the main event of WrestleMania XI in 1995.

Stay tuned to WWE.com as more on Bigelow's passing becomes available

 

[SuperFerret]

Wow.

RIP Bam Bam.

 

[Roughneck]

NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I can never Watch Major Payne with Damon Wayans again...............Bam Bam, though you weren't really doing much lately....you will be missed.

 

[WorthyStevens]

Wha.......a....a....?

 

[BRUTAL]

Rip

Bam Bam

 

[ComicChick]

R.I.P.

 

[Fran]

Damn, that sucks

R.I.P.

 

[Reptile]

RIP Bam Bam

 

[Badger]

Bam Bam RIP

 

[Showtime]

Wow he was only 45? Alot of these wrestlers are dying very young, the connection could be steroids or other drugs. Maybe the toll on the body?

 

[lazur]

Not that the death of anyone is "funny", but I always find it funny that they state cause of death unknown and that people actually believe it COULD be something other than the massive amounts of steroids and other enhancing drugs these human pin cushions have squeezed into their bodies over the span of their short lives.

Is anyone really surprised when a junky wrestler, gasp, dies at such a young age? C'mon, really.

 

[Showtime]

Yikes.

 

[jaguarr]

Not that the death of anyone is "funny", but I always find it funny that they state cause of death unknown and that people actually believe it COULD be something other than the massive amounts of steroids and other enhancing drugs these human pin cushions have squeezed into their bodies over the span of their short lives.

Is anyone really surprised when a junky wrestler, gasp, dies at such a young age? C'mon, really.

Not to mention the wear and tear on their bodies and the fact that a lot of these guys have chemical and alcohol dependency issues on top of their juice abuse.

jag

 

[Mr Sparkle]

Not to mention the wear and tear on their bodies and the fact that a lot of these guys have chemical and alcohol dependency issues on top of their juice abuse.

jag

you know, I'm aware he is not a wrestler but I often wonder exactly what is keeping Keith Richards alive.

 

[jaguarr]

you know, I'm aware he is not a wrestler but I often wonder exactly what is keeping Keith Richards alive.

The Devil. It's true. He's got Keith's soul lock, stock and barrel. Same for Mick. How else could you explain two of the world's ugliest men ever being regarded as sex symbols? At all. Seriously.

jag

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

William S. Burroughs didn't quit the smack till.....well he did it for a long time.
And Hunter S. Thompson never stopped funnelling drugs and booze into himself and was pretty old.
Perhaps brains and cool preserve them, 2 things about which professional wrestlers have only heard in whispers around campfires.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

plus...you know, Timothy Leary died at 86 years of age.

 

[unstoppable]

that sucks


RIP

 

[jaguarr]

plus...you know, Timothy Leary died at 86 years of age.

He wasn't shooting anabolics, snorting mountains of coke, drinking pints upon pints of Jim Beam and taking a steel chair to the face, either.

jag

 

[Wilhelm-Scream]

Well everyone will feel bad if it turns out it was S.W.D.S..

 

[Mr Sparkle]

He wasn't shooting anabolics, snorting mountains of coke, drinking pints upon pints of Jim Beam and taking a steel chair to the face, either.

jag

says you!

 

[jaguarr]

says you!

I'd like YOU to take a steel chair to the face!

jag

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Not that the death of anyone is "funny", but I always find it funny that they state cause of death unknown and that people actually believe it COULD be something other than the massive amounts of steroids and other enhancing drugs these human pin cushions have squeezed into their bodies over the span of their short lives.

Is anyone really surprised when a junky wrestler, gasp, dies at such a young age? C'mon, really.

Bammer was addicted to Oxycodone for a long time due to the wear and tear on his back. He sort of fell off the face of the planet for the past five years, and some people had been saying that he had kicked the habit and was trying to get clean. Guess it didn't work out.

So, in a way, I'm not surprised, but I also had this marky notion as of late that Bam Bam was trying to get his act together and make a comeback, in some form or another. I should've known better when it was reported a year ago that none of his friends could find out where he was, and that he'd basically disappeared after a motorcycle accident that almost killed his girlfriend. I'm assuming that he was pretty heavy in to drugs after that, and this is how he ended up. So, I'm sad because Bam Bam was one of the best, most agile "big" workers around, and his career is summed up best by another poster on a (rather carny) forum; "He was always a good hand". There...my two cents on Bam Bam Bigelow and the circumstances of his death. I'm gonna go hunt down his match with Taz from Living Dangerously '98 now.

 

[Mr Sparkle]

I'd like YOU to take a steel chair to the face!

jag

this isn't about me

 

[Noir]

Maybe he was to fat?