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After he was fired in mid-1987, he made a brief return to the AWA and would make appearances in small promotions until his death in a car accident in 1988. His career was a subject of an episode of the fourth season of Viceland 's documentary series, the Dark Side of the Ring , that aired in 2023.
Jul 11, 2020 · Adrian Adonis, who performed on two Wrestlemania cards, was just 34 years old when he and two other pro wrestlers died in a car crash.
Jul 12, 2023 · Mike Kelly, the sole survivor of the car accident that killed Adrian Adonis, explains what happened on Dark Side of the Ring.
Jul 4, 2016 · What exactly happened to Adonis to go from performing for a record breaking attendance of 93,173 people at WWF’s Wrestlemania III in 1987, to meeting his premature death crammed in a minivan with a pack of blue collar Canadian wrestlers in 1988?
A real life street fighter turned flamboyant wrestling heel, Adrian Adonis’ life was cut short in an horrific accident that has been shrouded in mystery for the past thirty years.
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Jul 5, 1988 · Police identified the dead wrestlers as Keith Franke, 35, of Bakersfield, Calif., who wrestled under the name 'Adorable Adrian Adonis'; Dave McKigney, 56, of Aurora, Ontario, better known as...
Jul 13, 2023 · Three Others Were in the Car Crash That Killed Adonis – Only One Survived After his time in the WWF, Adrian Adonis returned to the AWA, but he was overweight and clearly in bad shape. After a match between the two, Greg Gagne tried to talk Adonis into getting his life back together and Adonis seemed to listen.
Bret thinks it is possible that if Adrian wasn’t in the accident, we could have seen Bret vs Adrian at WrestleMania five years later. That would have been around WrestleMania X-XI or so.
Nov 4, 2017 · A Comeback Cut Short: The Car Accident that Claimed Adrian Adonis. By 1988, Adonis’ career was sinking fast. Adonis interviewed at the Pontiac Silverdome before his big match with Piper at WrestleMania III in front of 90,000+ fans. photo: wwe.com. The WWF had let him go shortly after WrestleMania III and Adonis’ return to the AWA was short lived.
Jul 12, 2023 · “The Tragic Fall of Adrian Adonis” makes no bones about the struggles Adonis endured and created for himself and others, but it is nonetheless a truly tragic story that saw him and fellow wrestlers Pat Kelly and Dave McKigney die in a car crash while on tour in Newfoundland.
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