Chris Candito

Known for ActingBorn 1972-03-21Died 2005-04-28Spring Lake Heights, New Jersey, USA

Christopher B. Candito was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name Chris Candido. Candido is a one time world champion, having held the NWA World Heavyweight Championship once. In addition, he held several championships in professional wrestling promotions such as Extreme Championship Wrestling, World Championship Wrestling, and The World Wrestling Federation. Candido had two runs with Xtreme Pro Wrestling. The first was in 2000, and he won the XPW World Heavyweight Championship before leaving for WCW. The second run was from late 2002 until the company's final show in 2003. Also Candido and Tammy Sytch wrestled in Puerto Rico for the World Wrestling Council in 2003 feuding with Eddie Primo Colon and in addition held the WWC World Television title. (Andy Douglas and Chase Stevens) defeated Elix Skipper and Petey Williams and Mikey Batts in a six-man tag team match. At the Destination X (2005) preshow, Candido and Andy Douglas defeated Lex Lovett and Buck Quartermain. On the March 18 episode of Impact, Candido and The Naturals faced Dustin Rhodes and America's Most Wanted in a losing effort. Candido competed in his final match at Lockdown (2005) when Candido and Lance Hoyt faced Apolo and Sonny Siaki in a losing effort during the match Candido broke his leg when Siaki landed on it after a flying dropkick early in the match. The injury would lead to Candido dying of acute pneumonia on April 28, 2005. His last performance was taped to air later in the week, he was featured on an episode of TNA Impact! after his death, wheelchair bound, where he helped The Naturals win the NWA World Tag Team Championship. At TNA LockDown on April 24, 2005, Candido fractured both his tibia and fibula and dislocated his ankle during a steel cage match with Lance Hoyt against Apolo and Sonny Siaki. He underwent surgery the next day to have titanium plates and screws inserted into his leg. He was at the following Impact! tapings managing The Naturals to defeat America's Most Wanted to win the NWA World Tag Team Championship. On April 28, 2005, Candido felt ill and his condition worsened during the day. He collapsed in the evening and was rushed to the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He was diagnosed with pneumonia. Doctors drained his lungs, but Candido died soon afterwards. He was 33 years old. His brother Johnny, reported that Candido died due to a blood clot, a complication from surgery. In a 2016 interview Johnny Candido would reveal that Chris did not die from a blood clot, but rather acute pneumonia. This death had a profound effect on fellow wrestlers such as CM Punk, who in 2014 voiced his concern of a post-elbow surgery clot similar to that of Candido. TNA subsequently held the Chris Candido Memorial Tag Team Tournament in his honor in late 2005. In 2009, he was inducted into the Hardcore Hall of Fame. Candido's Hardcore Hall of Fame banner in the former ECW Arena.Read more

Movies & web series

TNA: The 50 Greatest Moments

Phenomenal: The Best of AJ Styles

WCW Slamboree 2000

ECW November to Remember 1999

ECW CyberSlam 1998

WCW Spring Stampede 2000

ECW Heat Wave 1998

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 3

ECW - Unreleased Vol. 2

XPW: Baptized in Blood

ECW It Ain't Seinfeld

ECW Living Dangerously 1998

WWE In Your House 9: International Incident

WWE SummerSlam 1996

WWE In Your House 7: Good Friends, Better Enemies

WWE Survivor Series 1995

Barbed Wire City: The Unauthorized Story of Extreme Championship Wrestling

The Ladder Match 2: Crash & Burn

TNA Destination X 2005

TNA Lockdown 2005

XPW: The Revolution Will Be Televised!

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1997

ECW CyberSlam 1997

ECW Barely Legal 1997

ECW As Good As It Gets

WWE Sunny

WCW Thunder

TNA iMPACT!

ECW CyberSlam 1999

WWE WrestleMania XII

ECW Wrestlepalooza 1998

ECW November To Remember 1998

ECW House Party 1998

Raw

WWF Wrestling Challenge

WWE SummerSlam 1995

WWE: Mick Foley's Greatest Hits & Misses - A Life in Wrestling

WWE Royal Rumble 1996

SMW Night of The Legends

ECW November to Remember 1997

ECW Crossing the Line Again 1997

ECW November to Remember 1996

ECW Hardcore Heaven 1999

ECW Holiday Hell 1996

Life In The Fast Lane

Legends Never Die

NEW Renegades Rampage

MLW Reloaded