It never gets easy when you hear of the passing of a professional wrestler.
It seemed like we had a good run where the breaking news of a death didn't make it to the front page of wrestling sites.
I got another one of those shocks this morning when I read that Test was found dead at his apartment complex in Tampa, Florida.
I'm not going to claim that Test was one of my favourite wrestlers - he wasn't.
What I will say is his death is another one of those moments that proves what a terrible business it is when you scrub away all the glitz and glamour on its surface.
Andrew Martin - the person -was jacked up to the gills. His professional name 'Test' was even a reference to 'Testosterone' so you sort of get my drift in regards to what he needed to be in order to achieve a place in the business.
He was only four years older than me. And that's what is even more shocking.
When the Benoit deaths occurred, a number of the current stars came out to defend pro wrestling saying that the long list of deaths were from people who wrestled during a different period of pro wrestling. They claimed that the older generation had it a lot tougher which led them to doing things they shouldn't have to get by.
Andrew Martin was in that generation who claim they live better lives than those that came before them. He even posted a blog in defence of the industry at a time when he was angling to get his job back with WWE.
There were DUI's and other problems in the latter years of Martin's life. I'm shocked at hearing the news of his death, but should I really have been considering I had read about some of the troubles he had gotten into recently?
There will always be wake-up calls, it's a shame that those who have the power to help aren't stirred by them.
And so the cycle will be repeated when we roll out the next name to enter the death list.
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