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Impetus<\/a>: WWE legend Jimmy \u201cSuperfly\u201d Snuka found guilty for third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for the death of an ex-girlfriend back in 1983.<\/span><\/p>\n My knee-jerk reaction to this story was the fact that a case that was 32 years old was restarted, ultimately leading to the arrest of Snuka.\u00a0\u00a032 years<\/em>.\u00a0 That\u2019s insane.\u00a0 I\u2019m 33 years old, meaning that this incident occurred when I was just a year old.\u00a0 While I\u2019m still sucking my thumb and crawling around on the floor, Jimmy Snuka might have allegedly been assaulting women when he wasn\u2019t fake-assaulting men in leopard-print underwear tights.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m obviously no expert in the legal system, but isn\u2019t there supposed to be a statute of limitation or something?\u00a0 Like, some things can fall so far back in the past, that they get to a point where they actually can\u2019t be fired back up?\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m saying I didn\u2019t want to see Superfly get arrested, quite the contrary, regardless of where they are in my memories, criminal activity should be rectified; but I just was puzzled that something over three decades old, was still fair game to reopen investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Either way, I find it disheartening to hear this news.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy for anyone to say that they were big fans of Superfly right now, because he\u2019s (fairly) prominent news, but the truth is that as far as my interest in professional wrestling goes, there is a special place for Jimmy Snuka for me.<\/span><\/p>\n Chalk it up to one of those weird moments of elephant-memory clarity, but without any ambiguity, I do remember that the first ever professional wrestling match I ever saw was a Superfly match.\u00a0 It was Superfly versus Black Bart.\u00a0 It was on\u00a0All-American Wrestling<\/em>, on a Sunday afternoon, after my family and I had come back home from Catholic church.\u00a0 Being my first match ever, I didn\u2019t realize that the formula back then was\u00a0Superstar versus jobber<\/em>, and I had no idea which one was the Superstar, and which one was the jobber.\u00a0 Naturally, such became clearer when Superfly hit the big splash and won the match.<\/span><\/p>\n I remembered watching Wrestlemania VII, when Superfly took on the Undertaker.\u00a0 Obviously, knowing the time of when this took place, it\u2019s easy to figure out that the Undertaker was going to win this one very easily, which he did, but it\u2019s also in this particular match that the infamous\u00a0Undertaker Streak<\/em>\u00a0began, where he would then proceed to go twenty more Wrestlemanias without losing, before finally losing to Brock Lesnar a year ago.\u00a0 My memories of this particular match was that the WWF cameramen found Macauley Culkin in the crowd, looking scared out of his piss, same as most impressional children were back in 1990.\u00a0 And that Superfly was wearing boots, which was something he did not do for the better part of the previous decade.\u00a0 He got squashed, to no surprise, getting in a grand total of maybe two headbutts in as his only offense of the match.<\/span><\/p>\n The point is, Superfly was a large part of those formative years of wrestling watching; I\u2019m not going to pretend like I was the greatest Superfly fan on the planet, but I certainly do remember his presence, and as I got older, and sought out histories and stories of the past, did I learn more about Jimmy Snuka, like his insane jumping off the top of a cage against Don Muraco, in video clips that are mostly always shown in black and white.\u00a0 Or that if you really dug deep into the lineage of ECW, it\u2019s revealed that Jimmy Snuka was the very first ECW World Heavyweight champion; back when ECW stood for Eastern Championship Wrestling, before Shane Douglas took it\u00a0Extreme.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Little did I ever stop to think about the man behind the character, nor did I really believe that a guy that was pretty much a face portrayal throughout his entire career, was capable of such horrific things.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ll be the first to admit that it\u2019s surprising to see that Mr. Good Guy Superfly had in him, but upon thinking about it, as well as a long history of having read autobiographies of wrestlers from the 80s, it\u2019s not really that surprising that drugs, alcohol, wrestling groupies, would lead to these kind of unfortunate events.<\/span><\/p>\n I guess what I\u2019m really getting at is that the actions of Superfly are really surprising, disappointing, and most certainly unfortunate.\u00a0 Not that it\u2019s anything to brag about, but with this revelation, I can say that I\u2019ve met now, two wrestlers, who turned out to be murderers (I met Chris Benoit in 2006, years before he murdered his wife and son before killing himself<\/em>).<\/span><\/p>\n The worst part about that statistic is that I really haven\u2019t met that many wrestlers.<\/span><\/p>\n The picture above was back in like 2007 or something, when Superfly, along with a few other wrestlers from the 80s and 90s appeared at an event which featured a Christian wrestling federation, with a Stryper concert in between matches.\u00a0 I remember running into Superfly outside of Atlanta\u2019s Center Stage, and how friendly and affable he was, and willing and accommodating to take a picture with a child of the 80s.\u00a0 Naturally, I was more excited to have met a legend of reminiscence, but completely oblivious to the demons he was harboring in the closet.\u00a0 And now, it\u2019s kind of a tainted picture. \ud83d\ude41<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Impetus: WWE legend Jimmy \u201cSuperfly\u201d Snuka found guilty for third-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter for the death of an ex-girlfriend back in 1983. My knee-jerk reaction to this story was the fact that a case that was 32 years old was restarted, ultimately leading to the arrest of Snuka.\u00a0\u00a032 years.\u00a0 That\u2019s insane.\u00a0 I\u2019m 33 years … Continue reading Who would have guessed a pro-wrestler of the 80’s had violent tendencies<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,129,15,99,54],"class_list":["post-40880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-nostalgia","tag-og","tag-reminiscing","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40882,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40880\/revisions\/40882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}