10 Wrestler Deaths Ignored By WWE
WWE don't acknowledge every wrestler's passing
8. Lance Cade
Of all the students that Shawn Michaels had a hand in training at his Texas Wrestling Academy school, Lance Cade was the one tipped to be the biggest star.
Tall, jacked and with classic cowboy good looks, Cade had all the physical qualities WWE looks for and he was one hell of an athlete to boot.
He never quite became the name that many had predicted, however, though he enjoyed some success in a tag title-winning team with Trevor Murdoch.
Lance’s WWE career came to an end while he was in a prominent position as Chris Jericho’s muscle during Y2J’s feud with Shawn Michaels, after he had a drug-induced seizure on an aeroplane (which necessitated an emergency landing and medical assistance).
He then worked in Japan and on the indies and made a brief return to WWE’s developmental (but was never called up to the main roster), before passing away on August 13, 2010, as a result of heart failure. He was just 29.
Cade didn’t get a mention outside of the requisite website press release. Worse still, Linda McMahon (then running for a seat in the US Senate) told a reporter she ‘might have met him once’ when questioned about his death, a callous response and – quite frankly – an outright lie told to avoid an uncomfortable conversation.
