The death of Eki “Eddie” Fatu, a two-time Intercontinental Champion and cousin of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, has put Senate hopeful Linda McMahon fighting a different kind of bout.

Eki was a wrestler with a history of substance abuse and died of an apparent heart attack at the young age of 36.

From Stamfordadvocate.com:

McMahon’s critics say that Friday’s death of Eki “Eddie” Fatu, a two-time Intercontinental Champion commonly known as “Umaga” and the cousin of actor/wrestler Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, is a further indictment of WWE’s lax drug policy and general disregard for the welfare of its entertainers, a number of whom have gone down similar paths of self-destruction.

“The sheer number of deaths raises serious questions about whether or not Linda McMahon, as CEO, has done all she can to stop them,” said Jim Barnett, campaign manager for former Rep. Rob Simmons, who has developed an intense rivalry with McMahon to represent the GOP in next year’s Senate race against Chris Dodd. “I think most CEOs, if they saw their employees and former employees dropping dead in their 30s and 40s at this astonishing rate would be compelled morally and ethically, if not legally, to get to the bottom of it.”

Robert Zimmerman of the WWE remarked that Eki was asked by the WWE to go into rehab and his contract was terminated in June upon his refusal to do so.

Irvin Muchnick, who has written several books on the culture of pro wrestling, said that the 2007 suicide of WWE star Chris Benoit and murder of his wife and son, as well as the 2005 heart failure of Eddie Guerrero Llanes are cocktails of death that are promoted by the wrestling industry.

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