#Mike Von Erich

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“I used to be a brother and now I’m not a brother anymore.”

THE IRON CLAW (2023)

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About to go on a little rant here but you can tell most WWE fans don't watch AEW as so many last night bashed AEW for not promoting "The Iron Claw" as WWE actually had ads during their broadcast of "Smackdown" for the movie now being on Max. Now, I love that WWE is finally promoting the movie as they didn't at all when it was in theaters. However, AEW actually promoted the movie back in December when it was first released. They even had Kevin and his sons Marshall and Ross on there, and the sons actually have had multiple AEW and ROH matches (the most recent in February in a trios match with Dustin Rhodes). AEW also talked about the movie during the commentary for those matches, they showed the trailer multiple times during the ad breaks, mentioned how MJF and Ryan Nemeth were in the movie, the various wrestlers at AEW posted online when they saw the movie, and even when Will Ospreay fully joined AEW a lot of us fans realized and posted across social media how he and Harris Dickinson could pass for brothers, especially how Harris looked as David but also when they were both young starting out in wrestling & acting. Both companies should be promoting the movie as it was amazing and all wrestling fans should watch it. But to say that AEW didn't isn't true at all. Plus, it get some being baffled that AEW didn't show ads this past Wednesday during "Dynamite" about the movie being on Max, which is owned by WBD just like TNT/TBS is, but I actually expect it tonight during "Collision/Rampage" since the movie just only showed up on Max yesterday. Just seems it's being used as another excuse to bash AEW when again now both companies have promoted the movie now.

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The Iron Claw

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Hey

Hey I'm a new iron claw/ Von Erich blog, who's in love with David Von Erich.

I love to write so feel free to send in request, smut or fluff. or wtv y'all want.

k thanks byeeeee.

-Lavender

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This is why I could think after I saw the Iron Claw

*all not both

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'The Iron Claw' character designs

Kevin Von Erich and Kerry Von Erich 💪

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A Von Erich Extravaganza! - Pro Wrestling Illustrated (March 1988)

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A first look at Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White and Harris Dickinson as the Von Erichs in the Iron Claw

I'm very excited as a wrestling fan to see the Von Erich story on the big screen, but like are people ready for just how fucking sad this movie is gonna be?

HEAVEN NEEDED A CHAMPION and brother I am fucking LAPSED.

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Ever since I was a child, people said my family was cursed. Mom tried to protect us with God. Dad tried to protect us with wrestling. He said if we were the toughest, the strongest, nothing could ever hurt us.

I believed him. We all did.

(Bonus: Lance Von Erich)

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To the non wrestling fans that have watched or are going to watch The Iron Claw for the first time, make no mistake about it Fritz Von Erich loved his sons and they all loved him. Kevin Von Erich still speaks positively of his father to this day. Keep in mind he was never the same and never really learned how to cope with the loss of his first born son. Wrestling and success for himself and his family was the only way he could cope. Was he hard on his sons? Absolutely. Did he love his sons? Absolutely. It was just one heartbreaking tragedy after another. I highly recommend you watch Dark Side of the Ring: The Last of the Von Erichs to hear for yourself the real story behind the Von Erich family.

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So after reading more about the Von Erichs and rewatching a lot of their old matches I realized they cut another part of their story but I totally get why as before the movie started in 1979 David's first marriage had just ended and he moved back home. But not only that his baby daughter had also passed from SIDS the year before. His ex-wife likely is still alive and didn't want that depicted in the movie but now I know when I re-watch it I'm going to know that really happened just like how they also cut the youngest brother Chris, David's 2nd wife Trisha, and Kerry's daughters out of the movie too. I do think if this had been a miniseries they would've told it in full so I get why they did this with the movie and how tragic it all is and how good the movie turned out but there also was more of a focus on Kevin. Plus, it changes that scene with David finding out Kevin's going to be a dad. Also have a spoilerly thought too but makes me wonder how Harris would've handled that additional storyline, same with Jeremy playing Kerry as a father too.

For those that saw the movie the ending where Kerry reunited with his brothers in heaven it made me think of how Chris would've been there too as well as David's baby daughter. It would've been even more emotional than it was. 😭

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The Iron Claw

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(Editor me here : it’s currently july and i wanted to say this like doesn’t work anymore, so if you wanna watch the documentary on them, go onto Disney plus and look up Dark side of the ring. It’ll be a season one episode called “last of the Vin Erichs “)

The history of the real life von Erichs!!

I finally decided to get around to making a post about the Von Erich family and the real life story, now a bit of a disclaimer this is in no way shape or form to be meant as disrespectful or offensive towards the family , I’m just wanting to share the history behind them and I’ll also link the documentary that explains more of the Von Erich story.

Trigger warning: mention of Sucide, drug use and death, and Cancer.

So i got really interested in wrestling like a few weeks ago, after i watched the movie ironclaw and watched a documentary on the real life thing.

The movie and documentary is based around the Von Erichs (original name Addkison) there were six brothers i believe

Jack jr (he was named after their dad fritzs who’s real name was Jack)

Kevin

David (he was named after their mom’s brother who was 14 at the time of David birth and he was dying of cancer)

Kerry

Mike

And Chris

Jack died when he was six he was eldest and well that was the first death of many that would follow, in the 80’s the brother kevin, david and kerry followed in there dads footsteps and became wrestlers , they had become the biggest wrestlers in Texas and they even called David the yellow rose of Texas.

These three fought against another group named the fabulous free birds, up until 84 when david was supposed to fight against rick flair for the world championship title in Japan, but that never ended up happening, the morning of the match Bruser broody found David dead in his hotel room. After that they tried replacing David with another “von erich” who frizts (the dad) claimed the other person was a cousin, but everyone found out that wasn’t true. They lost some fans after that.

Next in death was mike and Chris

One in 87 one in 91 both of sucide

Chris wanted to be like his brother’s but that was hard he had Asthma and had to take medicine for it , which caused him to have brittle bone , he ended up braking his shoulder in the ring and got toxic shock syndrome, he survived that but that caused some damage to his brain and he ended up taking his own life.

Last brother was kerry who died in 93 in the 80’s he got into a motorcycle accident and lost his foot not alot of people knew that and he fought with only one foot no one could tell, but he got addicted to pain meds his life ended in sucide as well, in 97 there dad fritz died of brain and lung cancer. After that Kevin the last living brother still alive today retired from

Wrestling and moved to Hawaii with his wife and kids, his mom died in 2015, kevin is the only last surviving original Von erich brother.

His son’s are actually wrestlers to , alot of people specially the mom believed the death were do to a cruse but Kevin doesn’t believe that.

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