10 ECW Stars Who Died Too Young

8. 'Pitbull No.2' Anthony Durante

Gary Wolfe (Pitbull No.1) and Anthony Durante (Pitbull No.2), two prospects of Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory training school, began teaming together in the late 1980s and actually featured on WWE TV, losing to the likes of The Hart Foundation and The Brainbusters in squash matches.

Although they were merely job guys in the WWF, they enjoyed considerable more success in ECW, capturing the promotion's Tag Team Titles in 1995. They had well-received feuds with the likes of The Eliminators and the team of Raven and Steven Richards before Wolfe broke his neck and was put out of action for a considerable amount of time.

Durante then entered a feud with the man who put his partner on the sidelines, Shane Douglas, which culminated at ECW's first pay-per-view, Barely Legal, in 1997. Durante would leave ECW later in the year and work for a number of independent leagues before retiring in 2000 due to injury.

He, along with his girlfriend Dianna Hulsey, were found dead of an overdose of homemade Oxycontin on September 25, 2003. They left behind two small children, a 21-month-old boy and an 8-month-old girl, who were apparently left alone in the house with the bodies of their parents for days after their deaths.