Hi Sean,

First off - I want to say thanks for all the hard work you do on the DOI. I really enjoyed your take on Luna Vachon. I printed it out and read it on the train home from work and it was so special to hear about your personal dealings with Luna over the years. I met her once at WWF Fan Fest back in 94 in association with WrestleMania X and she was such a sweetheart.

I'm writing however for a different reason. That being the death of JC Bailey.

Much like you I don't watch too much wrestling these days. It's not the same as it was when I was growing up in the 90s. I actually spend more time reading wrestling sites than I do watching. It's one of those weird things where I sort of care enough to know what's going on but not enough to watch.

I try to never get emotionally involved in what wrestling journalists have to say but one "journalist" really got under my skin recently. That being Bob Magee.

I'm well aware of what certain people have to say about him - that he is in his 60's, lives at home with his mother, stalks wrestlers at hotels, intimidates children, etc. I never really cared about that stuff because it's his life and if that's what he's chosen to do with his life, while it is quite sad, it's what it is.

The thing that disturbs me about Bob is he writes a weekly column crying and complaining about Linda McMahon's decision to ban blood and chairshots to the head on WWE programming and at the same time complaining that WWE needs to clean up the business.

Information is already out that JC Bailey was suffering from dozens, perhaps hundreds of concussions from taking needless abuse to the head. How does Bob feel about that? He promotes the shows these deathmatches take place on! (apparently they let him and his brother in for free...so even though this garbage is his favorite pass time, he can't be bothered to pay for it)

So lets get this straight: He wants the wrestling business cleaned up. It's all Linda McMahon's fault that wrestlers are dying. But yet she has the audacity to ban chairshots to the head and blading?

That's right - because in Bob Magee's world, censorship is more important than death.

Now that JC Bailey is dead, what is his reaction? "Well it could have happened to any wrestler"

Right.

What I'm trying to say is wrestling fans can't have it both ways. You can't say you want the business cleaned up but at the same time promote deathmatch tournaments that take place in front of 50 fans on a farm, sit there with your homemeade press pass with a large smile on your face as you watch grown men scramble eachother's brains. People like Bob Magee support, promote and endorse shows like CZW's Death Match tournaments, complain when anyone tries to stop the shows from happening...then when a wrestler dies it's everyone's fault but his.

JC Bailey is only the first. It's no secret the level of pills one has to pop to get through a Death Match. People like Bob Magee will gladly look the other way from the abuse and pretend to want a clean wrestling business.

So here's my message to Bob and others like him - put up or shut up. If you're truly concerned over JC Bailey's death, don't make up excuses. Understand that it is 2010 and we have learned so much about concussions from chairshots to the head. If you're like Bob and enjoy seeing brains get scrambled - get help. You can't have it both ways.

As to not single out CZW here I also understand TNA still uses chairshots to the head as Bob was raving about seeing Team 3D and Balls/Axl bash eachother's brains in last month. In his words it was a "true ECW feeling." Maybe we can set Bob up with Dumbass Dixie, at least we know they have something in common - no brains.

Thanks Sean for taking the time to read this. Feel free to post this on the site if you would like. I think it might do a good job opening people's eyes to the double standards that wrestling fans have. I hope JC Bailey has found the peace he was looking for and I wish someone could have helped him instead of cheering as he was on a crusade to kill himself.

Sincerely,

Elizabeth Bayron

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