Reported by Jay Flannagan of WrestleView.com
On Saturday, October 21, 2006 at 2:22 PM EST

Earlier this week WWE.com put up a statement that Cpl. Kirchner had died on Sunday of natural causes.

That story has turned out to be false as Cpl. Kirchner (real name Mike Kirchner) did an interview with SLAM! Wrestling talking about the fact that the story was false.

PWInsider.com then posted the following statement from Kirchner's mother:

My name is Jean Kirchner and I'm Cpl. Kirchner's mother.

While I thank you for your condolences, they aren't necessary because Mike (a.k.a. Cpl. Kirchner) is alive and well.

Who Thomas Spears is, I haven't a clue, and my condolences to his family. He was never the "Corp" and I assume this is some kind of mix-up in the WWE database since the information came from them.

I called them as soon as my brother-in-law told me about the article and they removed it.

All I can tell you is that I wrote the book and my son is, thankfully, alive and well.

Jean Kirchner
a.k.a. G.M. O'Callaghan

WWE.com has since pulled the story from their website. On behalf of everyone at WrestleView.com we would like to apologize for the error and for any grief this may have caused his family, friends and fans.