10 Wrestler Deaths WWE Ignored

2. Umaga

Umaga Backlash 2006
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Umaga was featured in one of the biggest matches in WrestleMania history at the 23rd iteration of the show, but his death apparently wasn’t worth 23 seconds of screen time for WWE to address.

Most of the wrestlers on this list had been away from WWE in a full-time capacity for some time when they died; it was less than six months after Edward Fatu was released from the company that he passed away. You would think that would have got him some sort of mention on-air, because fans clearly remembered him, but he only made it on their website. It was absurd.

Umaga was never a main-eventer in his own right, but he battled most of the top stars in big programs. He fought John Cena in a Last Man Standing match at Royal Rumble 2007, and took on Batista at WrestleMania XXIV. But issues with drugs saw him leave the company in 2009, and that addiction later caused his death. Fans were outraged that Fatu didn’t get any sort of memorial, but the company just didn’t want anyone asking questions as to how he died, so they chose to ignore it entirely.

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