Chris Candido has wrestled in every North American organization that mattered. His first nationwide exposure was ten years ago when he and his girlfriend Tammy "Sunny" Sytch were the Bodydonnas in the World Wrestling Federation. I could never quite get the point of their gimmick, they were athletes who took care of their bodies, and did it without looking like muscle-freaks. And for whatever reason they were bad guys because of it. During the fledgling years of AOL Sunny became the most downloaded woman on the internet, and that was before the WWF went into a more adult direction.As their story progressed the WWF's writers had Sunny leave Skip for Billy Gunn. If one looks at the history of wrestling in general it's never ended well when real-life couples have fictional break-ups. The statistics overwhelmingly show that the fiction becomes reality more often than not. (The recent whoring around that Amy "Lita" Dumas did behind Matt Hardy's back is the most recent example.) In Chris and Tammy's case they beat the odds and stayed together.
They went through some tough times and battled some demons that nearly killed them both. Tammy Sytch had gotten the unfortunate reputation as a Crack Whore and in this case it wasn't a mere insult. She even appeared in a cheap, sleazy soft-porn film with wrestling's original Crack Whore Missy Hyatt and a few other women.
Chris himself had gotten addicted to drugs but he and Tammy again beat the odds by cleaning themselves up. Candido lately was a part of NWA-TNA and wrestled on their Lockdown Pay-per-View last Sunday. Two minutes into his match he shattered his ankle.
He had emergency surgery to repair it. Monday he was going through excruciating pain and vomiting. Not that puke ever smells great but this sample's scent was odd enough to worry people.
Doctors initially held back on giving Chris painkillers due to his former drug use but finally showed a little mercy. Chris made it to the Impact tv tapings on Tuesday (the show is on Friday afternoons on FSN) and no doubt was looking forward to healing his ankle as fast as possible and returning to the ring.
But Thursday night a blood clot ended all that forever. At 33. Owen Hart was 33 when he fell from the Kemper Arena. I'm almost 33 and in no hurry to have a blood clot, with little or no symptom, kill me. Too many wrestlers die before they're 40 and usually people aren't surprised. It's such a fuckin' shame when it wasn't their fault.
