He got in his final Black Sabbath show in their hometown of Birmingham, England. 

Hulk Hogan - 71

According to the Internet, Hulk Hogan at 71. It's like my entire childhood is dying this week!

Damn. Rough week.

Dang

The 80's babies are going through some stuff this week. 

Wish I still had my N64. I would play some WCW/NWO revenge and go for the heavyweight title with Hogan

Just saw this.  Shocked.  He was on Joe Rogan not that long ago talking about all his surgeries (back, knees, shoulder).  Seemed in relatively good health, otherwise.

Damn x2!

gut wrote:

Just saw this.  Shocked.  He was on Joe Rogan not that long ago talking about all his surgeries (back, knees, shoulder).  Seemed in relatively good health, otherwise.

There have been rumors for weeks he was on his deathbed that his wife denied and said he was just recovering from surgery. 

sportchampps wrote:

There have been rumors for weeks he was on his deathbed that his wife denied and said he was just recovering from surgery. 

Hadn't seen that.  Reportedly cardiac arrest, so could have been sudden or failing.

The Ozzy one  is particularly sad for me. That guy was great. He had his demons. But you couldn't help but respect his honesty about them. He always seemed so grateful to achieve what he did in life. I saw him interviewed on Howard Stern once talking about his reverence for Paul McCartney because the Beatles are what lit the fire in him about music. It was not pretentious or typical. It was a working class guy from Birmingham, England talking about why music was important to him. 

He was one of a kind.

Seems like pro wrestlers are ticking time bombs. Too bad BR isn’t around anymore, he would probably know more about it. 

Chuck Mangione - 84

friendfromlowry wrote:

Seems like pro wrestlers are ticking time bombs. Too bad BR isn’t around anymore, he would probably know more about it. 

Really, the fact Hogan made it into his 70s (and that, of all people, Ric Flair is still alive) is kind of an outlier for wrestlers of that era. I think the combination of steroids and all the coke and other party drugs so many of them were on made a lot of those guys, as you said, ticking time bombs. Just seems that so many of the ones I recall watching back in the late 80s and early 90s died in their 40s and 50s and a lot of those deaths could basically be chalked up to their lifestyles.