10 Wrestler Deaths Ignored By WWE
WWE don't acknowledge every wrestler's passing
2. Jack Tunney
To a certain subset of WWE fans, Jack Tunney was a notable ever-present during their childhood.
WWE’s on-screen President was the man credited with suspensions, vacating titles, naming number-one contenders and all sorts of other administrative business between the mid-1980s and mid-90s.
As well as his television character, Tunney worked as a promoter for WWE’s Canadian shows and helped the promotion achieve much success in the Great White North.
Tunney was let go by WWE in 1995, with ‘cost cutting’ cited as the reason. A longstanding rumour, however, suggests that Tunney had racked up large gambling debts and was embezzling company funds to pay them off.
Whatever the reason, his exit was murky and he disappeared from the business, never speaking about wrestling, WWE or Vince McMahon publicly again.
When Tunney passed away from a heart attack at the age of 69 on January 24, 2004, his death wasn’t announced on WWE’s website or on its television programmes.
Nobody from WWE (besides his successor and former friend Carl Demarco) attended Tunney’s funeral and his name has barely been uttered in the two decades since, which is certainly peculiar given what a looming presence he was during one of the company’s hottest periods.
