Former WWE Wrestling Star Chyna Dead At 45

Police said an autopsy will be performed.

The wrestler’s death was not a result of foul play in the eyes of police, but many of her friends and fans are questioning whether or not she may have taken her own life given her age. According to a report from TMZ.com, the death is being investigated as a possible drug overdose. “She had the most most lovely, dorky, fully committed laugh”.

After joining WWE, Chyna changed the way women were viewed in pro wrestling.

She was the first and only woman to win the company’s Intercontinental Championship, defeating Jeff Jarrett in 1999, and won its Women’s Championship in 2001, after beating Ivory. The Fabulous Moolah was a star in her time, but women’s wrestling all but died in WWE after the departure of Alundra Blayze, after she famously dumped the WWE Women’s Title in a garbage can on WCW Monday Nitro. She adopted her ring name Chyna and was billed as the “Ninth Wonder of the World”, André the Giant having been named the eighth. Chyna had been a relationship with Triple H until he entered a relationship and eventual marriage to Stephanie McMahon, the daughter of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. A pioneer whose star shined bright. Substance abuse problems were brought to the forefront of her life in the mid-2000s, and she had been an on-again, off-again public face since. Outside wrestling, Chyna appeared in several adult films from 2004 to 2013 and has posed for Playboy. The sheer breadth and width of the figures commenting on her passing should demonstrate the enormous impact that Chyna had on pro wrestling. She narrated as she prepared and drank a breakfast smoothie, trailing off and occasionally singing into the camera. At one point, while surveying the view from her seaside apartment, she asks, “How lucky am I?”

At 5-foot-10 and a chiseled 180 pounds, Chyna remains a character that has never quite been imitated or duplicated – which speaks volumes to how unique and ahead of her time she truly was. Jorgenson said it was rumored to have occurred after Laurer and Levesque broke up and Levesque became involved with McMahon. In a conversation with The Mirror Thursday, he touched on her chances of being posthumously inducted into next year’s WWE Hall of Fame class. He said he had no further information on the death.

Watching a televised match, she said, she realized: “I could go out and be this big, huge female and entertain people”.

“It is with deep sadness to inform you today that we lost a true icon, a real life superhero”, read her official Twitter account.

Ms. Laurer was born in Rochester, N.Y., and graduated from the University of Tampa in Florida, where she studied Spanish literature.