Lance Cade dead at 29

[vertigo]

Taken from wrestleview.com

Mike Johnson of PWInsider has confirmed that former WWE star Lance Cade (Lance McNaught) has passed away at age 29. No further details are known at this time.

Cade had been battling addictions to sleeping pills and painkillers on and off, including an incident back in October 2008 on an airplance where he took too many painkillers and went into seizure and the flight had to be diverted in order to save his life. He was released from WWE after the incident.

One year later in October 2009, WWE signed him back to another deal and he spend some time in Florida Championship Wrestling. This past April, Cade was again released from WWE and was never used on television during his time back with the company. He had worked some independent and Japanese dates since his WWE release. Cade leaves behind two daughters in his passing.

We will continue to follow this story as it develops.

Update (12:23 p.m. ET): Multiple sources now indicating Cade passed away due to heart failure.

[psz]

... Just..... Wow....


I always figured he'd be one of the Next Generation Of Superstars... Battling it out with Punk and Orton and Co. ....

[Rick Garrard]

WWE doesn't fire you in the middle of a big push without just cause. And in his case, it was the addiction with sleeping pills and painkillers. WWE did what they had to do to give him his "wake up call" but apparently he never went to rehab to beat it. And instead his heart gave out like so many before and unfortunately so many after that will still not learn from his situation with dependency. Such a shame to see such a decent hand leave the world at such a very young age when he should be main eventing a WWE show instead.