Biff Wellington Dead at 42
Thursday June 28, 2007
I am saddened to report that Shayne Bower, better know to wrestling fans as Biff Wellington has passed away. On June 24, he was found dead by his father after being dead for several days. His most famous trainers that got him in the business were the Hart Family and he got his start in the Hart family's Stampede Wrestling. In 1989, he won the Stampede Tag Team Titles with Chris Benoit. According to onlineworldofwrestling.com, in a 1996 match against Taz in ECW, he suffered a severe eye injury that caused him to become dependent on prescription drugs to keep the nerves in his eye stimulated to prevent it from "dying". He is survived by a daughter, his mother, father and brother. SLAM Sports has written a touching article on him which discusses multiple strokes he has had in the past few years as well as detailing his wrestling career.
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Shayne Bower, or Biff Wellington was also survived by one son, whom he had conceived in December of 1990, but had little to no knowledge about until about 13 months before he died, his son’s name is Dakota Sohm, whom has been keeping in touch with the bower family since his
Initial meeting, and also attended his funeral.
Dakota, or Cody Sohm is approximately 7 months Alexandra’s junior and lives in a rural town in southern alberta near the Crowsnest Pass,where he attends school and will be graduating in may of this year (2009). There is speculation that Alexandra will be attending his graduation ceremony.
I knew Shayne long before his wrestling years. My most vivid memory is of him picking me up off of a dock and throwing me into a lake, about 10 feet down, so I landed flat on my back smacking the water hard. At the time, I had severe burns on my lower back (which he was well aware of), and was in so much pain after hitting the water that I could not breath and almost drowned. Shayne stood on the dock and watched me go under, struggling to breath, with no attempt to help. What shocked me the most, was not that he deliberatley did it in the first place, but that there was not reaction, no emotion from him at all to see someone struggling to survive. Sorry fans, but it does not suprise me that he got into the business of causing people pain.