I started writing this column earlier this week about how many mistakes I think WWE has been making, but I completely erased that column in light of what has happened this week. It wouldn’t be proper or respectful to talk about both in the same column.

I was going to writing on the many WWE problems, and how WWE should go about fixing them. I have just heard the news that Ray Traylor has passed away.

I…I just can’t believe it, another great star, great athlete, and above all a really great person is gone. I must have read the news line five or six times before it finally sunk in. I am a caring person, and Ray Traylor is a guy I grew up idolizing and one of the wrestlers I always wanted to meet. Every time one of these great wrestlers go it just rips me up inside.

Ray Traylor and Jim Barnett are both gone in one week.

I kept begging and praying that it won’t be as bad as the last year, we all won’t have to go through the pain of losing our friends, family, hero, and the people we love. I really hope and pray the families of these great men that have died this week make through this hard time ok.

I’m usually the kind of person that says what I feel, and never stops talking about the things I feel should and need to be said. But right now all I’m feeling is deep sadness.

I keep thinking of the kind of lifestyle this men lived to provide for their families, how the guys still do it today, like I said before whether I like or hate someone as a performer I have nothing but respect for the sacrifices they make to take care of their families, they do a lot more than the common man.

Then I think about me, my family, my sacrifices, and what they mean to me. How they could be here one second, and gone the next. It’s sad, but it takes death to make us realize how important those we love really are, and how precious life really is.

I just wish all the deaths would stop coming so like they do, hell if I had it my way they wouldn’t come at all. But these things happen and it’s a way of life, but at least they are all in a much better place then the world all of us have to wake up to tomorrow.

I really don’t have a whole lot more to say right now.

This has just been a sad week for wrestling.

Go in peace Ray and Jim.


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