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This is the seventh installment of the “Wrestling With Sin” series. As always with these pieces…I do not personally condone or condemn the parties involved. I am just simply writing about incidents both confirmed and alleged that have occurred behind the scenes in pro wrestling. These events have a much more darker, seedier aspect to them. They involve things such as rape, affairs, suicide and murder.
The first incident revolves around indie and journeyman wrestler named Sean Casey. Casey wrestled in several southern and Mid Western independent groups as well as enhancement talent for both WCW and the WWE. Sean Casey was trained in part by the late, great Brian Pillman. When he wasn’t wrestling, Sean Casey ran an adult oriented company called, “Naughty Bodies.”
The company was supposed to offer exotic dances and massages for adult themed events like bachelor parties. The police conducted an undercover sting and discovered many of the dancers under the employ of Naughty Bodies were soliciting sex for money. Casey was arrested and eventually sentenced in 2014 of misrepresenting what his company really was. Casey plead guilty to one count of committing wire fraud. According to court documents, Casey accepted credit cards for prostitution services but fraudulently told the credit card companies it was for DJs, clowns and photo shoots. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison as well as serve 3 years of supervised release. He was also ordered to forfeit $32,000 that was seized from his home in Ohio.
The Great Sasuke was at one time, one of the most dynamic high flyers in Japanese wrestling history. He has also had one of the most controversial lives away from the squared circle. He ruined a working agreement between his Michinoku Pro promotion and the WWF after telling the Japanese media that he wouldn’t defend the WWF light heavyweight title ( A belt he was scheduled to win) in the U.S.
Sasuke was arrested after attacking a man on the Japanese subway for taking his picture with a cell phone. The man wasn’t a wrestling fan, he just thought he was snapping a pic of a crazy man randomly wearing a mask on a train. The charges were later dropped after Sasuke apologized.
The Great Sasuke was elected to the Iwate Prefectural Assembly in 2003. (A branch of the Japanese government) In his run in the Assembly, Sasuke refused to remove his mask despite requests to do so. He also spent an entire legislation speaking about UFO’s and Martians and how to handle them. His greatest offense, however, came when the Assembly found him guilty of using campaign funds to pay himself, fellow wrestlers and front office workers in his Michinoku Pro promotion.
It doesn’t end there, because aside from the corruption allegations, assaults and UFO speeches….he was also accused of starring in a pornographic movie. He denies the claim as the “performer” in question was wearing a Sasuke mask during the sex acts.
‘The Nightmare’ Ken Wayne is the son of wrestler/promoter Buddy Wayne. Despite a career that spanned close to 30 years…his biggest claim to fame was teaming with Danny Davis as the Nightmares/Galaxians in the 1980’s. Dan Davis has since gone on to open Ohio Valley Wrestling which has been a developmental group for both the WWE and TNA.
Ken retired from active competition in 2005 and opened up his own wrestling school in Arkansas. As of this writing, Ken Wayne was arrested and charged with child exploitation in the state of Mississippi. No other word on what Wayne is accused of, but if convicted…can face up to 40 years in prison.
Despite his great achievements inside the ring and on the amateur and Olympic levels…Kurt Angle has had his fair share of troubles with the law. (He has been arrested 4 times for driving under the influence.) Sadly, that wasn’t Kurt’s biggest misstep. In 2009, Angle was arrested for stalking his then girlfriend and former TNA star Trenesha Biggers aka Rhaka Khan.
According to reports, Biggers filed a restraining order against Angle after a physical dispute. Kurt was circling the parking lot of a Starbucks that Biggers was frequenting. The police were called and when the stopped Angle, the police also found syringes and bottles of Human Growth Hormones in his vehicle. He was also driving with a suspended license. It needs to be noted that the judge hearing the case dropped the most of the charges against Angle and dropped the stalking charge after he and Trenesha Biggers agreed to stay away from each other.
Finally, I wrap this edition of Wrestling with Sin with a story told by Barry Darsow (Demolition Smash/Krusher Khruschev)about Black Jack Mulligan and the late Andre the Giant. According to Darsow, Mulligan and Andre spent an evening of heavy drinking at a bar. They returned to their hotel room which they were sharing and Mulligan…in an angry druken state…felt the need to challenge Andre.
Mulligan in his condition felt that if he could beat up Andre…he would be considered the toughest man in wrestling. So out of nowhere, Mulligan punched Andre in the face as hard as he could. Andre…drunk himself…questioned why his friend Mulligan would do that. Mulligan then threw a second punch in which Andre proceeded to grab Mulligan and fling out of the hotel window. Mulligan was holding on to the outside balcony for dear life. Andre then grabbed Mulligan and brought him back into the room where they continued drinking.