19 Wrestlers From Raw's Debut Year Who Are No Longer With Us

By Lee Price /

7. Crush

Crush never quite reached the heights that some inside the WWE seemed to hope he would. After an inauspicious start as the third member of Demolition, Crush resurfaced with a gimmick as an easy-going Hawaiian that the company were clearly looking to position as one of their top babyfaces. Despite featuring heavily during that first year of Raw, including a heel turn that eventually saw him do battle with Randy Savage, Crush never quite caught on with the fans. He was later jailed and resurfaced under a biker gimmick before forming KroniK in WCW with Bryan Clark. A spinal injury eventually led Crush, whose real name was Brian Adams, to quit wrestling and for a time he worked as a bodyguard for Randy Savage. Unfortunately he was found unconscious in bed by his wife in 2007 and later died as a result of ingesting a lethal cocktail of prescription medication at the age of 43.