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NEWS - Ex-WWE Star Darren Drozdov Passes Away Aged 54. Surprising MITB Main Event Revealed! LA Knight Set For Big Push?!

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🗓️ 1 July 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Ex-WWE Star Darren Drozdov Passes Away Aged 54.

Surprising MITB Main Event Revealed!

Update On Drew McIntyre And WWE!

LA Knight Set For Big Push?!


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0:00.0

On today's wrestling news, Darren Drosdov unfortunately passes away. We've got a surprising match set

0:05.6

to headline money in the bank. We've also got an update on Drew McIntyre at Money in the Bank

0:10.4

and is Ellie Knight set for a big push? Are you ready? Are you ready for the news time?

0:16.6

His name is Phil Chambers on the road in London for Money in the Bank, which is happening

0:21.8

tonight that we're going to. But first up, the wrestling news. And unfortunately we start on a

0:26.7

sad note, as Darren Drosdov has passed away age 54. Now this news broke right before Smackdown

0:34.1

last night. The families put out a statement about it saying that he passed away due to natural

0:39.2

causes. They want on to thank WWE for continuing to support Darren for the final 24 years of his

0:45.1

life after suffering a life threatening injury in a match with Dealer Brown back in 1999,

0:51.6

which left him paralyzed. Now he was obviously confined to a wheelchair but he always seemed to have

0:56.0

really good spirits and he regained some feeling in his upper body towards the end of his life.

1:00.5

But his spirit never faded despite truly grim circumstances and that's something his family

1:05.9

remembers reminisced about when sharing the sad news. They extended deepest appreciation to

1:12.2

everyone for all the well wishes that are already pouring in and said they'd like Drosdov to be

1:17.0

remembered positively for his warmth, love and laughter. Now he had an unfortunately short one in

1:23.6

WWE debuted in 1998 with a puking gimmick which you can see in a very famous scene from beyond

1:29.8

the mat of Vince McMahon yelling at him trying to get him to puke in his office as he could puke

1:35.0

on command apparently. And that's where the gimmick came from, obviously. He also had a stint

1:39.9

in the legion of doom which ended in that famous segment of Hawk being pushed off the tight and

1:44.2

trying at the end. What culture obviously sends all our condolences to Darren's family and

1:50.8

friends and I just wanted to end with a little paragraph from the statement that the family put out

1:55.6

because it's just really nice. It just says that everyone who knew Darren was a better person

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