is Ribera to blame for David Von Erich's death? Here is Wild Bill Irwin talking about David's last day on earth
>"I was the last guy to see David VonErich alive," he said. "You know how you go to Japan and you drink before you get on the plane, then you get on the plane and you drink a little bit more so you fall asleep, then you wake up when you get there, what do you do? You start drinking a little bit more, they take you to dinner, they start doing all that introduction stuff, and then we went out to Ribera's Steakhouse and ate and drank some more, and David's right there with us." At the eatery that became popular with American wrestlers for its large portion sizes, Irwin says that VonErich drank more and downed two full plates of food, only to order a bunch of snacks when he returned to their hotel, going upstairs before returning to get the food. They went toDavid's room, and whenIrwin left, Von Erich was sitting on the edge of the bed, about to call his wife.
...[next morning on the bus]
>"Brody! Brody! Come! Come!" he remembered Higuchi saying frantically as he beckoned Bruiser Brody, who was based out of Texas and close with the Von Erichs. "Brody gets up and goes with him, and all of the other guys, we all look t each other, and everybody gets up and [gestures that they all ran off]. I'm right behind Brody, he's right behind the ref, and we go up to the first floor in the corner suite of that hotel, went in the door—'cause a guy from the hotel opened the door—and [David was] laying exactly where I left him. Where I left him sitting, he was now laid back on the bed, and he was as blue as this thing I'm wearing." Paramedics entered the room and tried to resuscitate him; in the process of moving him, a small amount of steak came out of his mouth. "But we knew he was dead when we saw him."
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