Post by thepat24 on Feb 19, 2007 19:32:31 GMT -5
From a post by Shane Douglas on his fan site:
Mike Alfonso, known to wrestling fans as Mike Awesome, was found dead on Saturday night in the Tampa area according to those close to the family. Awesome was 42 years old.
Friends were coming to his home in Tampa to pick him up and go out on Saturday night at around 10:30pm ET. When he didn't answer the door, friends went inside his home and found him hanging. As of now, the death is believed to be due to suicide pending results of an autopsy.
Mike Awesome was a top star for FMW in Japan and was known as a high-flying big man during his stay with ECW that saw him capture the ECW World Heavyweight Title in 1999 and 2000. Awesome later made a controversial move by signing with WCW while he was still ECW Champion. Tazz, who had left ECW and signed a deal with the then WWF, was brought back to ECW to beat Awesome for the title. Awesome remained with WCW until its demise in 2001 and made the jump to the WWF soon afterwards as part the Invasion/Alliance storyline. His last big wrestling appearance was at the ECW One Night Stand PPV in 2005. Awesome had been working as a realtor at Coldwell Banker in Tampa at the time of his death.
R.I.P. MIKE AWESOME (1965 - 2007) YOU WILL BE MISSED
Mike Alfonso, known to wrestling fans as Mike Awesome, was found dead on Saturday night in the Tampa area according to those close to the family. Awesome was 42 years old.
Friends were coming to his home in Tampa to pick him up and go out on Saturday night at around 10:30pm ET. When he didn't answer the door, friends went inside his home and found him hanging. As of now, the death is believed to be due to suicide pending results of an autopsy.
Mike Awesome was a top star for FMW in Japan and was known as a high-flying big man during his stay with ECW that saw him capture the ECW World Heavyweight Title in 1999 and 2000. Awesome later made a controversial move by signing with WCW while he was still ECW Champion. Tazz, who had left ECW and signed a deal with the then WWF, was brought back to ECW to beat Awesome for the title. Awesome remained with WCW until its demise in 2001 and made the jump to the WWF soon afterwards as part the Invasion/Alliance storyline. His last big wrestling appearance was at the ECW One Night Stand PPV in 2005. Awesome had been working as a realtor at Coldwell Banker in Tampa at the time of his death.
R.I.P. MIKE AWESOME (1965 - 2007) YOU WILL BE MISSED