He was an incredibly charismatic performer. Not the best in the ring, but when he spoke it gripped you like no other. Most of all he was creative. He came up with so many of his own ideas and they were always fascinating and interesting. He played a dark cult leader figure for most of his career, but played around with it and came up with so many interesting twists on it.

Its a devastating loss for the community. And three years ago one of his two original partners in the "Wyatt Family" passed suddenly under very similar circumstances. We also recently lost the legend Terry Funk. It can be hard to be a wrestling fan sometimes because it seems like tragicly losing wrestlers way before their time happens way too frequently. At least there havent been too many drug related deaths over the past few years, so that has improved. But the losses do keep coming.