I met Kerry at a shopping mall after he started with the WWE (then the WWF) a few months before he died. We shook hands after I recognized him and told him I didn’t want an autograph. I feel he respected that and we chatted a few minutes.
Damn, U should have gotten the Autograph! That’s 3 bills just on a piece of paper! I have his Wwf promo pic signed and it’s prob double that! I wish I could find another Kerry Autograph! Love him, Pillman, Owen, Piper and Bravo a lot! Miss them all actually but those few are special to me..Bulldog, Perfect and Rude too
It’s horrendous. As a straight man I can tell you without being ashamed, Kerry was beautiful. Head full of hair, body of an Adonis, just couldn’t get over the disease of addiction. Been clean 8 years myself. It’s not like cancer where you can’t have a choice in beating it. It’s a different disease. It’s a disease we open ourselves up to and pursue. But we gotta seek help.
You can’t find an interview from this era where Kevin and Kerry are as articulate. They must have been very sober and unusually clear headed. They communicate a good message. No family should have to endure what they went through. God bless them, you, all of us.
You're right they did appear to be sober and clear minded. I don't understand what they went through but I lost a brother to a drug overdose. We saw it coming but what can you do?
Your foot is a shock absorber. So imagine not having it. 😣 Every little step the shock goes rt up your back. Wrestling on that foot musta just been non stop pain. And think Kevin had something like 6 or 7 knee surgeries. Pain killers is what fkd those boys up
Honestly, they did. If Vince had not signed Kerry I believe the landscape of wrestling would have been different and we would have been watching WCW to this day. Or maybe NWA.
He was not on point all the brothers were doing cocaine, heroin, meth, weed speed and alcohol. Kerry was on cocaine the night he was doing 90 miles an hour on his motor Cycle and rammed a police car and severed his foot and here they are telling people to not do drugs. They never learned in there so called follow God's laws which his law is to live by your own words.
AMEN!!! And as any true Christian knows, GOD is the ONLY one with the AUTHORITY to sit in judgement- - it is NOT given unto us to judge. And . . . LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE !!!
Wow thanks for uploading this. Now I really don't wanna jump on here & question religion, but isn't it pretty clear that suicide is a sin? I'm not saying they should be on the 700 Club saying Mike is going to Hell or anything like that, just maybe don't mention his journey to the afterlife & keep it about the struggles he had before he took his own life & endorse suicide prevention. What's really sad about watching this is the fact that up to that point the family had already endured so much tragedy with the deaths of Jackie, David & Mike, but in less than 5 years they would lose both Chris & Kerry to suicide as well.
1:23 "we told the people, hey we know you love our brother but if you wanna see our brother again accept Jesus into your heart because you will see David and you will see Mike again" bizarre
It is so sad that Chris isn't even on that Von Erichs family album and he is sitting right there! No voice in interview, no pic on book. Just a pathetic way to treat a child.
Chris wasn’t a wrestler! He did very minimal and to be fair, Kev, Kerry and David were the main Von Erich’s! Mike and Chris were just side attractions to give them some camera time.
@@d-mo733 uh...actuaally he did wrestle. The point is that it costs nothing to put him on the group cover. He is a bonafide Von Erich. Now if it said the Von Erich wrestling family album...well wait back to my first sentence, he was gonna be obviously!
@@Skulllywag True...not sure how it changes the point though. They stayed Von Erichs, but left one out. If he wasn't promoted as Chris Von Erich then what you pointed out would make sense. So yeah he was BONAFIDE...as in part of the family trade name.
To many times of boys using drugs declared by other wrestlers really strong stuff. I my thinking their father should have quit wrestling business and concentrated on fixing his family. I feel very sorry for his wife. May they all rest in peace. Amen
@@jefferyashmore6477 everybody says they were cokeheads. Kerry was known to partake. But honestly I was a coke addict. And never was I sloppy 😂 Painkillers was their downfall for sure
Sad how they were sitting there, talking about its hard being a Christian in the buisness, while so many of the others were doing drugs and alcohol. They were the worst ones doing it at the time! Kerry couldnt even stay straight long enough to go and do this interview on the biggest Christian channel out there back then. He was higher than a kite here!
I’m not a religious guy but in the Christian bible don’t it say killing your self is a sin and you’ll go to hell does that mean 3 of the brothers are in hell biting ?
@@johnwest5458 what about if u killed 20 baby’s then touched those corpses then as u kill yourself u ask for forgiveness can that also ? Be forgiven just a question not tryna force u ina corner
@@KevinCastro_mma if you ask for forgiveness and it's sincere from your heart then God will forgive you but only God would know if he was sincere but to answer your question yes it will be forgiven
There are kids born in South East Asia that remembered their previous lives and people they interacted with not having been Christians and they didn't go to hell for an eternity so those claims are likely BS.
Yeah. They are mocking God by kayfabing their faith and flat out making stuff up. Also it's pretty hilarious that Kerry says without their faith, Mike and David's death would have torn the family apart when it was his suicide that tore that family apart once and for all. Lesson here is, don't mock God for attention.
he didnt mock God? he was implying that without the Love of God and guidance of God, they wouldn’t have been able to deal w the deaths of their family. To which I totally agree with, many tragedies that happen to me I completely rely on God to guide me and i let it all out to him. This helps me move past problems and get stronger. I dont understand why you said what you said
Why is Chris even their if your not gonna ask the guy how he’s doing or something crazy watching someone talk up Jesus but then does drugs and kills himself kery y
Vince McMahon wanted to keep him as a "spare" in case Warrior ever got too big for his britches (which he did). Alas, even McMahon couldn't foresee Kerry von Erich killing himself. 😭
I met Kerry at a shopping mall after he started with the WWE (then the WWF) a few months before he died. We shook hands after I recognized him and told him I didn’t want an autograph. I feel he respected that and we chatted a few minutes.
Please post positive proof pronto
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Damn, U should have gotten the Autograph! That’s 3 bills just on a piece of paper! I have his Wwf promo pic signed and it’s prob double that! I wish I could find another Kerry Autograph! Love him, Pillman, Owen, Piper and Bravo a lot! Miss them all actually but those few are special to me..Bulldog, Perfect and Rude too
@@josephambrose2852 don't be a Douche
Rest in peace too all the Von Erichs 😢
Kevin is the last one alive.
@@robbridges5020 thank god
@@robbridges5020yea ik i remember em from 2018 or something like that
Never saw this before, thanks for sharing!
Rest in Peace David Mike Chris &Kerry as well as Doris and Fritz
I've dealt with very similar tragedies in my families life and knowing what my mom went through, Doris is the one that my heart went out to.
Man, Kerry looked like a Greek Golden God! Unreal.
It’s horrendous. As a straight man I can tell you without being ashamed, Kerry was beautiful. Head full of hair, body of an Adonis, just couldn’t get over the disease of addiction. Been clean 8 years myself. It’s not like cancer where you can’t have a choice in beating it. It’s a different disease. It’s a disease we open ourselves up to and pursue. But we gotta seek help.
@@tobysgamingworld1550 he didn't have a leg
Just so sad that even at this point the tragedies weren’t over
You can’t find an interview from this era where Kevin and Kerry are as articulate. They must have been very sober and unusually clear headed. They communicate a good message. No family should have to endure what they went through. God bless them, you, all of us.
You're right they did appear to be sober and clear minded. I don't understand what they went through but I lost a brother to a drug overdose. We saw it coming but what can you do?
Wow great interview. Makes me want to cry
Absolutely heartwrenching 😫
Only 1 Von Erich is left from all of them on stage.😳
and it's not the little boy either. RIP to all the Von Erichs & God Bless Kevin in Hawaii
Kevin is back in Texas now.
I think Kerry and the others were genuine about their spiritual beliefs, they just were not always able to live like it.
Your foot is a shock absorber. So imagine not having it. 😣 Every little step the shock goes rt up your back. Wrestling on that foot musta just been non stop pain. And think Kevin had something like 6 or 7 knee surgeries. Pain killers is what fkd those boys up
Like us all.
Poor quiet Chris, he needs his own documentary
Why??
@@rict5878 what??
i agree
Meh, it'd be pretty boring.
Fritz so proud - and shocked - that Kerry said something so brilliant lol at 5:25
The Kennedy’s and the VonErich’s. Both families have suffered more tragedy than any family deserves.
And the Harts
And self inflicted
AND BOTH CAUSED THERE OWN LIFE PROBLEMS. KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT BEFORE YOU EXPRESS FAKE PRAISE.
@@trentaccid2177 And you're causing problems typing in all caps, what a keyboard warrior.
@@chrischar9428A muthafuggin' MEN!!!
Rest In Peace
🙏🤍🕊
The von erichs were a real inspiration to me ...they werent perfect hey neither am i or my life
They ruled Texas!
Honestly, they did. If Vince had not signed Kerry I believe the landscape of wrestling would have been different and we would have been watching WCW to this day. Or maybe NWA.
Actually if they never died. I can be 99% sure that WCCW would still be going run by David as a hillbilly Vinnie Mac
Kerry was on point in this interview.
He was not on point all the brothers were doing cocaine, heroin, meth, weed speed and alcohol. Kerry was on cocaine the night he was doing 90 miles an hour on his motor Cycle and rammed a police car and severed his foot and here they are telling people to not do drugs. They never learned in there so called follow God's laws which his law is to live by your own words.
2:24 Kevin obviously speaking for himself about sticking it out with life seeing as Chris would commit suicide 3 years later & Kerry 5 years later
Suicide is not unforgivable.
This is hard to watch knowing what would unfold for everybody not long afterwards.
Poor Chris... Loved kerry so much that he wanted to look like him, but he was sooo small...
Kerry was so
beautiful 🥹.
With all my heart I believe his brother was healed but he had brain damage. It was so sad. This whole family just breaks my heart.
🙏🏾
Sad for this whole family
All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. Nobody is without sin. That doesn’t mean the Von Erich’s are not in heaven!
AMEN!!! And as any true Christian knows, GOD is the ONLY one with the AUTHORITY to sit in judgement- - it is NOT given unto us to judge. And . . . LET HE WHO IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE !!!
Suicide doesn't get you to Heaven. Try reading your bible. Several times.
Wow thanks for uploading this. Now I really don't wanna jump on here & question religion, but isn't it pretty clear that suicide is a sin? I'm not saying they should be on the 700 Club saying Mike is going to Hell or anything like that, just maybe don't mention his journey to the afterlife & keep it about the struggles he had before he took his own life & endorse suicide prevention. What's really sad about watching this is the fact that up to that point the family had already endured so much tragedy with the deaths of Jackie, David & Mike, but in less than 5 years they would lose both Chris & Kerry to suicide as well.
Zac erfon did great job playing Kevin in the iron claw
1:23 "we told the people, hey we know you love our brother but if you wanna see our brother again accept Jesus into your heart because you will see David and you will see Mike again" bizarre
Nothing bizarre about it. If you have the Lord Jesus Christ in your heart you have eternal life.
@@42lookc The bizarre part it trying insinuate that suicide is a path to Heaven.
@@patbrooks9823 I didn't get that impression at all.
Whats so bizarre about that?
The 700 Club? They'll invite anyone who makes a reference to God. Suprised they didn't have Hulk Hogan on for a "Big Man Upstairs" reference.
Amazing that these men where men of faith but took their lives. Makes you wonder. The 700 club not too sure about that organization.
I always liked Kevin's feuds back in the WCCW...Kevin was the oldest only by the tragedy of Jack Jr. being electrocuted as a child.
It is so sad that Chris isn't even on that Von Erichs family album and he is sitting right there! No voice in interview, no pic on book. Just a pathetic way to treat a child.
Chris wasn’t a wrestler! He did very minimal and to be fair, Kev, Kerry and David were the main Von Erich’s! Mike and Chris were just side attractions to give them some camera time.
@@d-mo733 uh...actuaally he did wrestle. The point is that it costs nothing to put him on the group cover. He is a bonafide Von Erich. Now if it said the Von Erich wrestling family album...well wait back to my first sentence, he was gonna be obviously!
@@humphreybogart6663 Actually, none of them were "bonafide" Von Erichs. They were bonafide Adkissons playing the role of a Nazi wrestlers children.
@@Skulllywag True...not sure how it changes the point though. They stayed Von Erichs, but left one out. If he wasn't promoted as Chris Von Erich then what you pointed out would make sense. So yeah he was BONAFIDE...as in part of the family trade name.
wow good catch, sitting there I hope he got to talk at some point.
2:23 kinda weird Kevin saying "we're with our brother again" instead of brothers
Gee-I don't think the Von Erich's were real "Christian" behind the scenes.🤔
No sin is greater than the other
To be fair look at Pat Robertson the anti Christian who thinks being rich is what Jesus wanted from us and mocking the poor
To many times of boys using drugs declared by other wrestlers really strong stuff. I my thinking their father should have quit wrestling business and concentrated on fixing his family. I feel very sorry for his wife. May they all rest in peace. Amen
@@jefferyashmore6477 everybody says they were cokeheads. Kerry was known to partake. But honestly I was a coke addict. And never was I sloppy 😂
Painkillers was their downfall for sure
You know nothing
Whatever it takes...
Sad how they were sitting there, talking about its hard being a Christian in the buisness, while so many of the others were doing drugs and alcohol. They were the worst ones doing it at the time! Kerry couldnt even stay straight long enough to go and do this interview on the biggest Christian channel out there back then. He was higher than a kite here!
Kevin ain't talking, but there was more going on with that family than just alcohol and drug abuse. Some SERIOUS mental issues.
Kerry wasn't as high as usual here. He's actually pretty coherent
How high waa kev here ?😊
I’m not a religious guy but in the Christian bible don’t it say killing your self is a sin and you’ll go to hell does that mean 3 of the brothers are in hell biting ?
The only unforgivable sin is rejecting the holy Spirit.. everything else can be forgiven
@@johnwest5458 what about if u killed 20 baby’s then touched those corpses then as u kill yourself u ask for forgiveness can that also ? Be forgiven just a question not tryna force u ina corner
@@KevinCastro_mma if you ask for forgiveness and it's sincere from your heart then God will forgive you but only God would know if he was sincere but to answer your question yes it will be forgiven
There are kids born in South East Asia that remembered their previous lives and people they interacted with not having been Christians and they didn't go to hell for an eternity so those claims are likely BS.
I guess this family never got the memo regardig suicide and Heaven. LOL!
lying for the show. druggies with a mission i guess..
There mother was trying. She's the one with the faith. I'm sure they believed too but not at her level. We are all at different levels of faith
Yeah. They are mocking God by kayfabing their faith and flat out making stuff up. Also it's pretty hilarious that Kerry says without their faith, Mike and David's death would have torn the family apart when it was his suicide that tore that family apart once and for all. Lesson here is, don't mock God for attention.
he didnt mock God? he was implying that without the Love of God and guidance of God, they wouldn’t have been able to deal w the deaths of their family. To which I totally agree with, many tragedies that happen to me I completely rely on God to guide me and i let it all out to him. This helps me move past problems and get stronger. I dont understand why you said what you said
The Von Ericks were our home town heroes and hope God let's people in that took their own life
WRONG.
Why is Chris even their if your not gonna ask the guy how he’s doing or something crazy watching someone talk up Jesus but then does drugs and kills himself kery y
Kerry was one of the best of all time
Vince McMahon wanted to keep him as a "spare" in case Warrior ever got too big for his britches (which he did).
Alas, even McMahon couldn't foresee Kerry von Erich killing himself.
😭