Trained by Shawn Michaels, Lance Cade was one of WWE's very finest prospects when he emerged on to the WWE scene in 2003. That potential was never really fully realised, he had a solid look and was reliable in the ring, but beyond tag teams with Mark Jindrak and Trevor Murdoch he was pretty much filler talent. There was a final attempt to get Cade over by pairing him with Chris Jericho, but he was eventually released after suffering a seizure on a plane and needing medical help. Jim Ross described this incident as Cade making a "major league mistake while utilising bad judgment" Cade died aged just 29 in August 2010. He had been in rehab earlier that year but died that summer due to accidental intoxication from mixed drugs. WWE failed to pay their respects beyond a brief wwe.com statement. The reason they didn't want to make a big deal of it on Raw was obvious, the death of a young man under 30 does not look good for business. He wasn't under contract at the time but had been a WWE guy for almost a decade.
