What is the cause of Texas Tornado Kerry Von Erichs death?
It late 1982, Kerry was arrested in San Antonio for having cocaine in his suitcase at the airport. No charges were ever filed against him. Kerry’s drug problem clearly began very early on and nothing was done to stop him from destroying himself. Interviews with many former wrestlers and most notably Jim Cornett all said that other wrestlers didn’t want to go to Fritz and tell him to get control of Kerry. They were concerned that they would not be able to wrestle in the promotion. In 1986, Kerry was involved in a serious motorcycle accident which knocked him out of wrestling for almost two years. When he returned, it was clear that his foot was not normal because the boot he wore was much larger. Kerry would obviously return to the ring and continue to wrestle until his death in 1993. Kerry’s addiction to pain killers seems to have developed after the motorcycle accident since he was having to deal with the pain of wrestling on a leg without a foot. It had to be extremely painful and I
