The Wrestling Family That Took Their Own Lives | The Iron Claw True Story

Thank you for covering my teenage favs, the Von Erichs. I absolutely sat glued every week to the broadcast from the Sportatorium in Dallas to watch the brothers' endless feud with the Freebirds, the Dynamic Duo, Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin, and the great Ric Flair.

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Very good video. I think you did a good job with research and giving a no bias commentary of events.
Some constructive criticism, I think that at times if feel like you’re rushing through your script. It’s well written.
Your voice is great and the subject matter is interesting. Take your time.
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It would really suck to be 5’4 and your older brothers are 6’2 to 6’7

CTE leads to suicide. Especially when brain damage is mixed with drugs.

I blame Bronco Lubidge! Did you see how long it took him to count?
I bet if you won on a "3 Count" it was really a "7 Count"

Yo why you got David down as suicide when he had a problem with his small intestine

Gastroenteritis is basically diarrhea or really badly food poisoning. How the hell did you get his intestine exploding?!

I har toxic shock syndrome. That ravaged my body. Id lost 60 lbs and my ability to walk in less than 3 weeks. It took year's to get my strength back. I wasn't able to build the muscle mass back for years

What has become of society when people are too pussy to even type or say words like 'suicide' and 'rape?' talkin bout self-deletion and puttin a star in the goddamn word. grow a fuckin pair you pussy.

Spoilers.

Excuse me I knew family personally they had dinner with me and my great-grandmother every now and then that man was nice as hell, those kids were turd headed drug addicts just like I turned into. It was the age

FRITZ SACRIFICED ALL OF THEM

Fritz sacrificed David

Is it possible they faked their own deaths?

The last brother being so much smaller is crazy, that’s genetics for ya 6,7 to 5’4

Gastroenteritis does not mean intestines exploding..

I love the narrators voice ❤

Is the what the movie iron claw about

I wonder what the eldest son Jack JR. Would have turned out like if he hadn't died at 6. He may have had a huge impact and dinamical change on the family as a whole. Eldest siblings are usually very potent.

Everybody thought they were strong, but they were actually weak because they killed themselves

I lived near Kerry and Kevin, and you would see them around the area.

Gastroenteritis doesn't mean your intestines have exploded 😂😂

The darkest comedy I've ever heard

Fritz here making joe Jackson look like a father icon

Kerry Von Erich would have been huge in the wrestling world under different circumstances

I think the steroids played a large part

Little zac Efron playing one of the guys 😂 dude is so short

That music is so annoying

Why would someone need to have gone to Germany to play the part of a Nazi? National socialism was a global movement with recruits from most countries

That was an odd thing to say. Just filling time, I suppose?

Terrible family

I so had a crush on these brothers growing up as a kid.

Makes you hopeful the Paul's will follow their lead.

Dont do drugs kids

This sounds just like one of those cold case files, but we are only in the middle of the episode still. In 20 years they might find out epstein didnt kill himself. Just sayin

Wow that’s so sad I couldn’t imagine going through what the mother endured losing her children god bless them all 😢🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Well done 👍

I played pinball alot back then, one day Kerry came into the arcade at north hills mall on crutches, I had trouble focusing on my game with him next to me, he wasn't very outgoing.

very much a tragic demise for the family - though it's great to see the name being carried forward in MLW

5 of 6 kids died too young.

1: Accidental Drowning/Electrocution
1: Underlying health problem or accidental drug overdose.
3: Suicide by Gunshot

Drugs (Meth/Cocaine), Steroids, Alcohol, Opioids.
All taken to prevent the bad look of injuries or just to numb the pain that eventually caused them to end it…because they could never tell their father they weren’t wrestlers. 2 of the dead just weren’t wrestlers!!! It’s a very sad picture 🥺😢

They lived in a Fake Fantasy World so I’d guess they thought Death wasn’t real either. Death has a way of fixing Stupid.😂

The father wanted the best out of his kids but fail at what’s best for your kids is

The movie is Mid at best they left chris von eric out of the story they really skipped threw alot without time stickers and who ever played ric flair was pure trash mjf is not even really featured in the film is Lance von eric nor do they really tell the story of wccw its just more of a fast paced film from Kevin's pov of life with his family which is crazy seeing he had little to nothing to do with the film I gave the film a 6/10 after the screening

You just gave away the plot of the movie with your damn title and thumbnail!!! 🤬😤😤😤

Dude… I feel terrible for Kevin..

Such a sad life, I’ll bet father was a brutal man- tough man. Lived life through his sons,unfortunately.

Crazy sad can’t wait for the movie