JIMMY SNUKA’S DARK HIDDEN PAST: WHAT VINCE MCMAHON & THE WWE DIDN’T WANT YOU TO KNOW!

WERE GONNA JUST LEAVE THE JOKES ALONE IN THIS POST, AS WE SHOULD. And instead share with you this amazing yet extremely informative well written article by An Author named Irvin Muchnick, and this guy goes in hard with facts and details about Mr. Snuka that Vince and Linda McMahon and a lot of people probably didn’t want you to know about, the Now Frail but Former Fiji Phenom!

Everything from Alleged Drug Abuse to Evidence that he Beat his Former Girlfriend with a Blunt object, to Vince McMahon saving his azz! This guy Irvin Muchnick breaks it down totally for all you Wrestling Fans! The following is a small sampling of awesome excerpts and a link to This Whole Amazing Article, which I’m sure you all will click!

You will not be disappointed!

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SUPERFLY SNUKA AND THE DEATH OF A GROUPIE

by Irvin Muchnick

For Vince McMahon, the Hundred Million Dollar Man, wrestler Jimmy (Superfly) Snuka made for a challenging tag-team partner. The World Wrestling Federation’s second-most-popular star in the early eighties, Snuka was an illiterate immigrant from Fiji, prone to bouts with the law that threatened his green card, and a drug abuser who often missed bookings. During a Middle East tour in the summer of 1985, fellow wrestlers say, customs officials in Kuwait caught him with controlled substances taped to his body, and he was allowed to leave the country only after some fancy footwork.

But Snuka’s near-Midnight Express experience in the Persian Gulf was child’s play compared to what happened on May 10, 1983. That night, after finishing his last match at the WWF TV taping at the Lehigh County Agricultural Hall in Allentown, Pennsylvania, he returned to Room 427 of the George Washington Motor Lodge in nearby Whitehall to find his girlfriend of nearly a year, Nancy Argentino, gasping for air.

Two hours later, this 23-year-old wrestling fan – who’d worked as a dentist’s assistant in Brooklyn and dropped out of Brooklyn Community College to travel with Snuka – was pronounced dead at Allentown Sacred Heart Medical Center of “undetermined craniocerebral injuries.”

“Upon viewing the body and speaking to the pathologist, I immediately suspected foul play and so notified the district attorney,” Lehigh County Coroner Wayne Snyder told me on a recent trip to Allentown.

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Former wrestling great Buddy Rogers, who’d been hired by McMahon to serve as Snuka’s TV “manager” and to get him to important matches on time, said he stopped driving with the Superfly after he brazenly snorted coke when they were in the car together.

“Jimmy could be a sweet person, but on that stuff he was totally uncontrollable,” said Rogers, who was also Snuka’s neighbor on Coles Mill Road in Haddonfield, New Jersey. Snuka’s wife, with whom he had four children, befriended Rodgers’ wife. “Jimmy used to beat the sh** out of that woman,” Rogers said. “She would show up at our house, bruised and battered. But she couldn’t leave him – he had her hooked on the same junk he was using.”

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Finally, there was the incident involving Snuka and Argentino at a Howard Johnson’s in Salina, N.Y., outside Syracuse, just three months before Allentown. The motel owner, hearing noise from their room, called the police, who found Snuka and Argentino running naked down the hallway. It took eight deputy sheriffs and a police dog to subdue Snuka.

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According to attorney Cushing, Linda McMahon made a remark at one point in their discussions that was at once insightful and chilling. “Look, I’m in the garbage business,” the promoter said. “If you think I’m going to be hurt by the revelation that one of my wrestlers is really a violent individual, you’re mistaken.”…. For more of this incredible inside info , please click this link —Superfly Snuka & The Death of A Groupie