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    http://www.f4wonline.com/content/view/9617/

     

    MISAWA PASSES AWAY AFTER BACKDROP IN HIROSHIMA MATCH

     

    Mitsuharu Misawa, one of the greatest pro wrestlers of all-time, was declared dead at 10:10 p.m. Saturday night at a hospital in Hiroshima after being dropped on his head in a tag team title match.

     

    Misawa would have turned 47 on June 18th.

     

    Misawa & Go Shiozaki were challening Bison Smith & Akitoshi Saito for the GHC tag team championship in Hiroshima and Misawa was dropped on his head at about 8:45 p.m. and knocked unconscious.

     

    According to eye witness reports, Saito gave Misawa a "routine" back suplex that was described as a "7" in danger on a scale of one-to-ten. He did not get up. It was chaos in the ring as they attempted to revive him using CPR and the crowd was hushed for a while, and began a "Misawa" chant. He turned purple in the ring and was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance.

     

    His heart stopped beating in the ring. The cause of death may have been a heart attack.

     

    The wrestlers were told on the bus that he had passed away.

     

    While it is being reported that he passed away at the hospital, he may have actually passed away in the ring.

     

    Misawa was the Japanese high school national wrestling champion at 187 pounds in 1980, and was recruited by Giant Baba into All Japan Pro Wrestling. He gained his first taste of stardom in 1984 when he was chosen to be the second Tiger Mask. After unmasking in 1990, he became an even bigger star after a series of singles matches with Jumbo Tsuruta.

     

    He was Japan's biggest pro wrestling star of the 90s, and one could make a strong case for him as the top wrestler of the decade. He was the Wrestler of the Year in 1995, 1997 and 1999.

     

    After the death of Shohei "Giant" Baba, Misawa wrestled a little over one more year for All Japan Pro Wrestling, while working as company president. After consistently butting heads with owner Motoko Baba, the widow of Shohei Baba, he and 90% of the All Japan roster quit the company to form Pro Wrestling NOAH.

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    It's way too early to seriously predict Oscar nominations but I will say that Ledger's Joker is probably the best villain in a movie based on a popular comic book. Really, it's no contest. The only one who's in the same ballpark IMHO is Alfred Molina in Spiderman 2

     

    Bring me the son of Jor-El.

     

    Other than that, I pretty much agree.

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    Albums of the nineties:

     

    1. In The Aeroplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel

    2. 69 Love Songs - The Magnetic Fields

    3. The Chemical Wedding - Bruce Dickinson

    4. The Charm Of The Highway Strip - The Magnetic Fields

    5. Gentlemen - The Afghan Whigs

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    I've never really understood why animals doing something means it's okay for people to do it too. If someone person was discovered to be a cannibal who ate their kids, do you really think anyone is gonna argue "No, it's okay, some animals do that!"

     

    Who has said this? This "news" just further invalidates the argument that homosexuality is unnatural. The Bible is and will always be quite clear that sodomy is morally wrong—and that working on Sunday (or is it Saturday? Let's make it both to be safe) is punishable by death, a rape victim must be forced to marry her rapist, and pi is exactly three.

     

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