Another professional wrestler has died tragically young. Mike ‘Mad Dog’ Bell was found dead by his roommate earlier this week.  Bell had allegedly been clean for 60 days.

Though he never signed a contract with the sports entertainment giant, “Mad Dog” Mike Bell, 37, wrestled on World Wrestling Entertainment’s (formerly World Wrestling Federation) “Monday Night Raw” as a “jobber” – a fighter who takes falls to promote others – and grappled in the early 1990s with legends including “The Undertaker,” Bret Hart and “British Bulldog.”

He also wrestled for a brief time in the defunct Philadelphia promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling, before it was resurrected by WWE.

Mike had been addicted to prescription painkillers and alcohol which was detaild in the biopic movie Bigger, Stronger, Faster.

“You can’t really blame wrestling, but it’s kind of the lifestyle,” Chris Bell said. “You have a couple of painkillers to get to the next match, have a couple drinks night to night and it gets out of hand.”

Chris Bell said the cause of his brother’s death was still unknown but it could be attributed to the “rough life” Mike Bell lived. “He was always wrestling, he was a personal trainer, he was always pushing his body to the max.”

WWE trying very gracefully (albeit failing) to distance itself from another drug related wrestling death.