10 WCW Stars You Totally Forgot Existed

7. Chase Tatum

After beginning a career as a personal trainer, Chase Tatum came into contact with a client from WCW who suggested he go for a tryout with the company. As a teenage bodybuilding prodigy and a former Mr. Georgia, Tatum was ripe for pro-wrestling. Yet his stay in the industry was brief. Upon completing his training at the Power Plant, Tatum began to appear on WCW TV in 1999, serving as enhancement talent whilst adapting to the new profession. Soon after, he was drafted into Master P's massively unpopular No Limit Soldiers faction. Tatum enjoyed a brief singles run, but within two years of making his debut, chronic back pain started to affect the former bodybuilder, and in 2000 he bowed out of the industry. The move wasn't a disaster for Tatum; his connections with Master P allowed him to serve as the rapper's PA and road manager for his group Outkast. He even found a role in the movie Who's Your Caddy? with the band's Big Boi. Yet his brief stint in the ring took its toll. Despite spending only two years between the ropes, Tatum became dependent on painkillers to alleviate the issues caused by his troubled spine. The end of the story is depressingly familiar; in 2008, Tatum was found dead in his home following an apparent overdose.
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