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"Out Pro Wrestler" Chris Kanyon
Passes Away Chris Klucsaritis,
who wrestled for the WCW and WWE as Chris Kanyon, passed away Friday night from an overdose of pills at his apartment
in the Sunnyside section of Queens, NY. He was 40. According to WrestlingObserver.com, Klucsaritis' death is believed to be a suicide. He had been open about suffering
from a bipolar disorder and had talked and threatened suicide many times in the past according to those who are close with
him. He debuted in 1992,
and wrestled the bulk of his career for WCW, that was later bought out by the WWE. He started with Mark Starr as part
of a tag team "Men at Work," and later developed the Mortis gimmick. His highest profile role, including holding
the WCW tag team titles, came with Diamond Dallas Page and Bam Bam Bigelow as the Jersey Triad. During that period,
he also worked in Hollywood on movie sets during a boom period for pro wrestling when the movie industry was interested in
films, including on "Ready to Rumble" and a made-for-TV movie on Jesse Ventura. He attempted to get back into the major leagues doing a gimmick
as the first openly gay pro wrestler, later admitting to be gay in real life. He tried to garner publicity claiming
WWE fired him for being gay, but the publicity went nowhere. TNA was also not interested in the gimmick. He had
wrestled sparingly in recent years, had announced a retirement, but still on occasion wrestled. Chris Klucsaritis published two myspace pages. One was a personal / business page and the other was a Gay Activist page. Many friends and family have been visiting his myspace.com profile pages and paying repect. You will find them at: http://www.myspace.com/chriskanyon and http://www.myspace.com/gaykanyon
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