Farwell, Eddie Fatu

For my WWE followers, I have bad news. Eddie Fatu, aka Umaga, was died yesterday after he recently suffered a heart attack. He was only 36. Fatu's portrayal of Umaga brought about one of the deadliest and most brutal monsters the WWE had ever seen. Fatu first came to the WWE in 2002 was Jamal, a member of the stable known as Three Minute Warning. After about a year, he was released, but came back in 2006 as Umaga, adaptly nicknamed the Samoan Bulldozer. He was truely wild animal in the ring, bringing a rare combination of speed and power to the ring that most people never seen from a heavyweight. Umaga made a few WWE Championship runs and won the WWE Intercontinental Championship twice. Not to mention he made a career out of facing top names like Batista, Bobby Lashley, CM Punk, Jeff Hardy, John Cena, Kane, Ric Flair, and Triple H (all those men have held the WWE, World Heavyweight, and/or ECW Championships). Sadly, his career was tainted by two failed steroid tests, the last one got him fired from the WWE this summer. After the passing of Andrew "Test" Martin earlier this year, I was hoping we had seen the end of wreslters dying young for a long time, but I was so wrong. Farwell, Eddie Fatu. You were certainly one of my favorite heels.