Former pro-wrestler Brian Adams - known to his fans as Crush - was found dead by his wife at their home in North Tampa around 11:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Adams was part of a wrestling circuit that included Brian Blair, who now serves as a Hillsborough County Commissioner, and WWE star Vito LoGrasso, who calls himself "the toughest man to ever wear a dress." LoGrasso said in an interview Monday that he loves many things about his sport: the time at the gym, the time in the ring, the time with the friends he's made along the way. One of those friends was Crush, who was part of the W.W.F., now called the W.W.E.

"He had a very illustrious career and he was a good man and a good person - you know, very caring," LoGrasso remembered.

Crush stood 6'-8" and weighed 300 pounds.  But, LoGrasso was quick to add that he did not give his competitor an easy time.

"One of the toughest guys I ever faced and I know I always gave him a handful of problems," he said, adding that when he heard his fellow former wrestler had died, he felt a kind of blow one doesn't encounter inside the W.W.E. ring.

"Shock, just disbelief, I couldn't believe it when somebody said that to me," LoGrasso recalled.  "It just seems like you're always losing a brother - the world of wrestling, it's like a brotherhood and it just seems like it's a dying breed."

Many from that "brotherhood," live in the Tampa Bay area like Adams did.  Among them is County Commissioner Brian Blair, who was one of Adams' best friends.

In an exclusive interview with FOX 13 from his home in North Tampa, the Hillsborough County Commissioner said sadly, "Losing Brian Adams is a loss for everybody, and my prayers go out to Irene [Adams] and his family and to all the people who knew Brian and loved him."

The two men wrestled together. They played golf tournaments together.

"If you wanted to remember Brian Adams for what Brian Adams was, you would start with integrity and it would have to end with humor, because he had to make you laugh," Blair explained. "He had charisma, he could do things that no other could person could do."