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Living with Grief: The Story of the Von Erichs & WCCW

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 December 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

John Pollock explores the tragic story of the Von Erich family along with the rise and fall of World Class Championship Wrestling.

Music:

Yevhen Onoychenko from Pixabay

Creating Background Music and Effects from Pixabay

Clips Courtesy:

- WWE Network

- Rusty Baker (Fritz Von Erich's last interview before his death)

- Hard Copy (1991)

- Heroes of World Class: The Story of the Von Erichs and Rise and Fall of WCCW (2006)

- Local Dallas area news 1984-1993

- http://wrestlingfilms.blogspot.com/


References:

- Wrestling Observer Newsletter (March 1, 1993)

- Wrestling Observer Newsletter (July 24, 2006)

- Heroes of World Class: The Story of the Von Erichs and Rise and Fall of WCCW

- Play-by-Play: Tales from a Sportscasting Insider (Bill Mercer)

- Before the Iron Claw: The Origins of Fritz Von Erich (SLAM! Wrestling)

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Carrie Von Eric, and this is my brother Kevin. You can get a hot-looking

0:07.2

Vineric t-shirt like this. Each shirt has Carrie Mike or myself printed on the front.

0:12.3

Or you can get one of these shirts that says

0:15.0

taken by force from Carrie Kevin or Mike Boneric.

0:18.6

Call now in order my t-shirt.

0:20.9

No by mine.

0:22.0

No by mine as a As the long awaited release of the Iron Claw occurs, a new generation is going to learn of the

0:36.9

Von Eric family's story, tragedy, and fate.

0:40.3

For others, it's revisiting one of wrestling's darkest tales that even Hollywood had to downplay and temper the level of grief and casualties.

0:47.6

To explore the Adkisson von Eric family is to undertake an exercise in the dangerous cocktail of fame, fortune, drugs, ambition,

0:56.0

disappointment, pressure, and death.

0:58.0

It's hard to sugarcoat a story that saw five of six brothers dead before the age of 35 and the sole survivor in Kevin

1:04.3

who miraculously has lived as full of a life as possible surrounded by his family

1:08.4

perhaps compensating for the lives his brothers failed to enjoy.

1:11.6

David Van Errik was in Japan on a truly tour with an American wrestling show.

1:16.0

He was found lying across his bed early this morning.

1:19.0

Searchers found the body at 23 year old Mike von Errik this morning, near Louisville Lake.

1:23.0

Chris went into the woods behind his family ranch

1:26.0

and just like his brother Mike,

1:28.0

he took his life.

1:29.0

Shocking news for wrestling fans this morning.

1:32.0

Pro- wrestler Cherry von Errik has apparently taken his own life.

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