SlamJamz Central: MATW: The Mystery of Sean Waltman's Disappearance...and why the Online Wrestling community could apparently care less...

Sunday, September 18, 2005

MATW: The Mystery of Sean Waltman's Disappearance...and why the Online Wrestling community could apparently care less...

It is now Sunday, September 18, 2005 at approximately 9 AM.

One Week ago this evening at approximately 6 PM Eastern Time, Sean Waltman left his grandparents' home near Tampa Florida, headed for Orlando to do his job at TNA's UNBREAKABLE PPV. He alledgedly called TNA officials to let them know he was running late but that he was on his way.

He hasn't been seen or heard from since.

Sean Waltman has disappeared from view, and apparently out of the minds of most of the online wrestling sites.

But NOT this one.

SlamJamz has been scouring the planet, trying to find out what happened to Waltman. SOMEBODY HAS TO. Nobody else seems to even give a damn.

The treatment on this story has been absolutely DISGUSTING. Of the major online wrestling sites, only ONE - PWTorch.Com - has tried to make an effort to find out what is going on. PWInsider mentioned it in terms of Sean's career early on, then completely dropped the story. And NOT ONE WORD about this mystery has appeared anywhere except the Torch since Wednesday of last week.

Why is it that 1Wrestling.Com's Bill Apter decides to issue a call for help when it comes to a missing British female wrestler, but NOT when it comes to one of his own countrymen?

Why is Waltman only a passing mention on Wrestling Observer's and Figure Four Weekly's sites? Why is his disappearance NOT EVEN MENTIONED on either 1Wrestling.Com or wrestling Chatterbox? Why has there only been a passing reference on PWInsider?

Some wrestling journalists you all are. I am absolutely OUTRAGED at your lack of concern, and the blindness to what a huge story this may sadly turn out to be.

There are a couple people who have legit excuses for not following up this story, but most of the top journalists in our field do NOT have those excuses.

And more to the point - WHY hasn't Waltman been reported as a missing person with Florida authorities yet? I've been checking the missing person reports for several days, several times a day, and nothing as yet has turned up. According to PWTorch editor Wade Keller in one of his mid week audio updates, Sean's family was worried enough to contact Florida authorities when an unknown body turned up in a river at mid-week to ask if it was Sean. His family is known to be extremely disraught. So WHY haven't they filed a report yet?

More to the point, why hasn't the NEWS MEDIA taken up this story yet? That is one question I can answer very easily. Sean Waltman wasn't an intern with a congressman when he vanished, nor was he a female American teenager out for a night on the town in Aruba. No, Waltman is JUST A PRO WRESTLER. And he's a man to boot. Nice "fair and balanced" coverage, eh, Fox News? What say you, CNN? MSNBC?

So now the question on my mind (and apparently NOT everyone else's) is now what REALLY happened? Did Sean and Jeff Jarrett have an argument about the fact that he was running behind, as Torch editor Wade Keller has speculated? Did he go off to lick his wounds and regroup? If that's the case, why hasn't he called his parents, his grandparents, his kids, and his friends? He has not returned any voice mail messages - of which countless ones have been left by family and friends on his cell phone - that we know of. He has not been in contact with either TNA or WWE officials.

Or has something else befallen Waltman? Did he have an accident where no one else could see it happen? On a busy stretch of highway between Tampa and Orlando, that's not one of the most likely scenarios, but it could have happened. Could he have went off the road and his vehicle now be hidden from view from the highway? Was he even traveling the conventional routes, or did he know a shortcut to Orlando on some backroad where no one else was around? Likewise, could he have been the sudden victim of some sort of foul play? Has he suffered some sort of breakdown, running off and not remembering to tell anyone where he was going? Was there an emergency call from someone that caused him to change plans, ditch the PPV, and head off somewhere to be with someone in need?

Or worse yet in some people minds...have he and Joanie reconciled and gone off somewhere to start their lives over, away from the scrutiny of the media and family?

Any of these scenarios could be possible..and there are countless others as well?

So WHY isn't anyone doing anything to FIND OUT? Why has the jaded wrestling press turned its back on this story? Why hasn't his so-called friend Triple H come out and asked the media and authorities for help in finding Waltman?

You can bet your ASS if it had been Rob Van Dam, or Chris Benoit, or Samoa Joe who had disappeared that they'd be all over it. But not Waltman.

WHY DOESN'T ANYONE SEEM TO CARE?

Sean, if you're out there somewhere licking your wounds and you're reading this (doubtful, I know), PLEASE contact someone - ANYONE - and let them know you're ok. Your friends and family - not to mention your FANS - are extremely WORRIED about you. Don't worry about the consequences of your decision. Please contact someone and let them know what's going on. Worry about the reaction later. Right now, we just want to know you're still alive and well.

I Just want to know if you're alive and well....please let someone know you're ok....


And As Usual, and ESPECIALLY when it concerns Sean Waltman, it's ME Against The World....

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