{"id":61921,"date":"2020-01-19T16:20:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-19T21:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/?p=61921"},"modified":"2020-01-29T17:35:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T22:35:09","slug":"canadian-wrestler-dr-hannibal-steve-gillespie-passes-away-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2020\/01\/19\/canadian-wrestler-dr-hannibal-steve-gillespie-passes-away-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Wrestler &#8220;Dr.Hannibal&#8221; Steve Gillespie Passes Away at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some sad news out of Canada, as former Canadian indie wrestler <strong>&#8220;Dr. Hannibal&#8221; Steve Gillespie<\/strong> has passed away at the age of 56. Steve Gillespie was found unresponsive in his car on January 18, 2020. In a cruel twist of fate, a week prior to his death, his longtime tag partner in Japan, <strong>Dr. Luther<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2020\/01\/08\/canadian-deathmatch-wrestler-dr-luther-debuts-with-aew\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">made his debut with <strong>All Elite Wrestling (AEW)<\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sad news to pass along this evening, I just heard that Steve Gillespie, best known for his time as &quot;Dr. Hannibal&quot; in the FMW promotion (partners with Dr. Luther) passed away today at the age of 56. We at the CAC wish his friends and family our condolances in their time of need. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HRo3s4eH8y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HRo3s4eH8y<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cauliflower Alley Club (@CACReunion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CACReunion\/status\/1218744840776667137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Hailing from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Gillespie was a student of the infamous Hart Dungeon in his home city, debuting with <strong>Stampede Wrestling<\/strong> in the late 1980s. Over the years, he would become a mainstay in Canadian Western indies, working with <strong>Canada NWA<\/strong> and his own promotion, based around his wrestling school in Calgary, <strong>Can-Am Wrestling<\/strong>. Gillespie was also one of <strong>Lance Storm<\/strong> and <strong>Chris Jericho<\/strong>&#8216;s early mentors.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mike Lozanski vs Steve Gillespie\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7mUwEx8Vdw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Gillespie is best remembered for his three year run in Japan with <strong>Frontier Martial-arts Wrestling (FMW)<\/strong>, where he teamed with Dr. Luther. The two became known for their hard-hitting styles that often brought them into Japanese deathmatches.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Sabu Chronicles Vol.3 : FMW Kawasaki May 1993 Part 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sl6vQ0SoFAQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>When WWE came to town during the 90s, he was often used as an enhancement, where he just used his real name. The staff of Last Word on Pro Wrestling sends its sincerest condolences to Steve Gillespie&#8217;s family, friends, fans, and peers.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Q_E66WJGkVY<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/LanceStorm\/status\/1218746149487595526<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to the <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/a>\u00a0for 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some sad news out of Canada, as former Canadian indie wrestler &#8220;Dr. Hannibal&#8221; Steve Gillespie has passed away at the age of 56. Steve Gillespie was found unresponsive in his car on January 18, 2020. In a cruel twist of fate, a week prior to his death, his longtime tag partner in Japan, Dr. Luther, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":61933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[547,6],"tags":[6043,6042,6041],"class_list":["post-61921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-memorium","category-north-america","tag-dr-hannibal","tag-dr-luther","tag-steve-gillespie"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61921","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\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}