Wrestling is a dark business. Mike (Awesome) Alfonso committed suicide in 2007, leaving behind a wife and two kids, he was 42.
He had it all, size, talent and agility. Unlike wrestlers today, he came up through the hardcore circuit. Becoming a star as The Gladiator in Japan's Frontier Martial Arts Wrestling before becoming Mike Awesome and dominating ECW. Then he was signed by Eric Bischoff into WCW, he was supposed to be the draw that would finally put the last nail in WWF's coffin. His finishing move (The Awesome Bomb) a moving version of The Undertaker's Last Ride was dangerous. In a tag team match wrestling Booker T, he fucked it up. It nearly turned the FIVE TIME, FIVE TIME, FIVE TIME WWE CHAMPION into a quadriplegic. He never got a push again, getting buried both in WCW then the WWE. After the screw up, his tag team partner (Scott Steiner) entered the ring - he looked like he wanted to kill him then and there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l07U3Ac8pe0