{"id":117437,"date":"2022-12-30T16:03:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-30T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=117437"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T23:53:05","slug":"don-west-passes-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2022\/12\/30\/don-west-passes-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime IMPACT Commentator Don West Passes Away at age 59"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to multiple sources, longtime IMPACT Wrestling Color Commentator, Don West has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealMikeTenay\/status\/1608890721138012166<\/p>\n<p>It was via Twitter where longtime partner, play-by-play Mike Tenay announced that West&#8217;s wife informed him of the passing of West after a long battle with brain lymphoma. Back in the summer of 2021, West announced that he was dealing with the disease before stating he was in remission. An a half of year later, he would announce that the disease returned.<\/p>\n<p>West, was a color commentator for IMPACT Wrestling (formerly Total Nonstop Action Wrestling) from 2002-2009, and even managed wrestler Amazing Red to an X-Division Championship in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>West was also known for his role as a salesman, marketer, radio personality and pitchman.<\/p>\n<p>West, leaves behind wife Terri, who\u2019ve been married to since 1992.<\/p>\n<p>West was 59 Years Old.<\/p>\n<p>Last Word on Sports sends our condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Don West.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FITE is deeply saddened about the passing of TNA\/IMPACT legend, Don West. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/spcy7cYKQM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/spcy7cYKQM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TrillerTV (@Triller_TV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Triller_TV\/status\/1608896314464690183?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 30, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"s1\">Stay tuned to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a> for more on this and other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world.\u00a0 Be sure to check out some highlights from West via IMPACT&#8217;s VOD service <a href=\"https:\/\/impactwrestling.com\/impactplus\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Impact Plus<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to multiple sources, longtime IMPACT Wrestling Color Commentator, Don West has passed away. https:\/\/twitter.com\/RealMikeTenay\/status\/1608890721138012166 It was via Twitter where longtime partner, play-by-play Mike Tenay announced that West&#8217;s wife informed him of the passing of West after a long battle with brain lymphoma. Back in the summer of 2021, West announced that he was dealing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2484,"featured_media":117438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,2192,8959],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-impact","category-north-america","category-wrestling","category-tna-wrestling"],"modified_by":"Michael Kovacs, ADMIN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2484"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135290,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117437\/revisions\/135290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}