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NEWS - WCW/TNA Star Daffney Unger Dies Aged 46. WWE Offering Mental Health Counselling To Talent. Britt Baker Signs AEW Contract Extension! Surprise Entrant Confirmed For AEW Women's Casino Battle Royale?!

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🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


WCW/TNA Star Daffney Unger Dies Aged 46.

WWE Offering Mental Health Counselling To Talent.

Britt Baker Signs AEW Contract Extension!

Surprise Entrant Confirmed For AEW Women's Casino Battle Royale?!


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0:00.0

Imagine sweeping through green fields, floating five feet above ground, sun on your face as you slide by on track to your destination.

0:12.0

Not a car in the world, as you simply lean back. And before you know it, you're there.

0:20.0

This is how travel should feel, and on our trains, it does.

0:25.0

Avanti West Coast, feel good travel.

0:41.0

Morning, everybody. On today's wrestling news, we're going to talk about a bunch of different things relating to AWU, including all out 2021 and Brit Baker.

0:48.0

But first of all, we have to go over the tragic passing of Shannon Sprule 46 years old, better known as Daphne Unger, particularly if you were a WCW fan, run about the turn of the century.

1:01.0

So this story broke yesterday. It was Daphne's friend Lexi, five of slamming ladies on Instagram, who posted the following update.

1:09.0

We are very sad to have to announce the passing of Shannon Sprule aka Daphne Unger. We are posting this at the request of her family.

1:16.0

Please respect their privacy at this trying time. I will miss you, my logical sister from another mister.

1:22.0

Now, concern started spreading through social media on Wednesday. Daphne unfortunately uploaded a very troubling video on Instagram live.

1:31.0

We're not going to cover the content of that here, but there was an effort to reach her TMZ reported on the matter and everything else.

1:38.0

Unfortunately, on Thursday, we then got this news that she had indeed passed away. So she's best known in her wrestling for her time in WCW.

1:46.0

She signed there in 1999. She was there until February, 2001 when she was let go as a consequence of budget cuts before the sale to WWE.

1:54.0

But she was this character that really stood out in not a vintage era of WCW. She leapt off the page of her character.

2:01.0

She was lined with crowbar and David Slayer. It was kind of like a golf like gimmick. She was cruiserweight champion for a while,

2:06.0

which she accidentally won in the memorable angle, where she was kind of covering and the referee counted the free and everything else.

2:13.0

But after WCW, she went on to TNH, worked a few other places as well. I haven't really been active in wrestling over the past few years or anything like that.

2:21.0

But it's just such a sad story. She's 46 years old. That's no age at all. And when you see the outpouring of love from the wrestling community at a whole,

2:29.0

I'm going to read one here from Mick Fully in particular, because I think it stands out. I'm so very sorry to learn of Daphne's passing a terrible loss for her family, friends and wrestling.

2:39.0

She was far ahead of her time in our business. Rest in peace, Daphne. If you're hurting and thinking of doing harm to yourself,

2:45.0

know that help is available 800-273-8255, which is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

2:53.0

So yeah, man, there's not much more to add on top of that other than Fox Priors hopes, strength, everything else that the friends and family need.

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