A nine year-old pro wrestling fan dies

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Nine year-old Damori Miles died on Tuesday after jumping off the roof of his apartment wearing a homemade parachute. "He tried to do a swan dive like Jeff Hardy [mistakenly listed as "Jeff Harding"] does on Smackdown," explained best friend Shakar Murrell. "(WWE Smackdown vs. Raw 2009) was his favorite game. He played it all the time. That was what he was trying to do."

This is nowhere near the fault of the WWE or Jeff Hardy, while I don't really like the swanton bomb move, I would hope they don't feel the need to have Hardy use the Twist of Fate as his finisher for a while, Pro Wrestling has its faults but it can't be held accountable for every tragedy like this that happens

The Swanton Bomb actually looks very impressive live, Jeff did one at the house show I went to , the crowd went nuts for it!

It's blatantly not the WWE's fault, Jeff never uses a parachute. At least the kid had the sense to try and use one, if not the technical know-how on how parachutes work.

dumb

ass


thats all i'm gonna say.

Can't see them banning the move, I remember a good few years ago some kid killed his brother with a tombstone and they didn't ban that. Swanton is a pretty good move I think, I always loved it when The Sandman did his version of it.

As for kids doing the moves, yeah it is stupid, but I'm sure we've all done it. Hell I remember Dr. Oznog telling me he once broke his collar bone doing a swanton in his back garden, I used to do moves off the top of my garden shed, but I suppose it takes a real idiot to jump off the roof of a block of flats.

I think it's stupid that people try and blame wrestling for their own kid's stupidity. It's common sense that you don't try and do something like that, especially not from a big height.

i was reading more about it online there blaming the game over his death as well

thegunman84 wrote:

I remember a good few years ago some kid killed his brother with a tombstone

i remember that to but didnt they just not use it for while till the heat died down

hmmm maybe they did, although I don't recall that happening. They surely wouldn't have switched to taker using a chokeslam, he only ever beats jobbers with that these days. Last Ride maybe?

yeah he just used the last ride for a long time

can i ask.

how the hell can someone even do a swanton whilst attactched to a home made parachute

logic escapes me where someone could do a front flip from a roof whilst tied to a sheet id pressume. How was it ever meant to work :S

I blame the bloody paratroopers

Maybe that's why it went wrong and they died then Sexton. Probably realised halfway through that they wouldn't be able to flip all the way over, and ended up landing on his head.

parachute


still dont get it. surely matresses or into a pool would be more plausable

Hardcastle, he is jumping off a roof, why try and make sense of whats going through his head

hardy doesnt use a parachute though

Touche

Point conceded