Is it true that David Von Erichs body was left in his Tokyo hotel room for two weeks after he died?
No. This story, believe it or not, was told by none other than former WCCW World champ Black Bart in an RF Video shoot interview released in summer 2007. (A somewhat different version is told by Bill Irwin, who was actually there, in another shoot released in 2008.) Supposedly, David’s body was left in the room to decompose with the air conditioning turned off and the odor spreading to other rooms for two weeks “until Fritz got there” (according to Bart), or for three days, allegedly because it was a Japanese holiday and the coroner was unavailable (according to Irwin). Aside from the fact that David’s body is known to have been buried on February 15, 1984 (five days after his death), it should go without saying that no hotel, law enforcement agency or health department in the civilized world would ever allow such a thing to happen. Even the “three-day” story defies common sense, as there would be no viable reason to leave a decaying corpse in the hotel room any longer than it took for
