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Depends if you count Hector Garza as a "name".

Jay Strongbow didn't get an obituary, Oliver Humperdink did. There is no rhyme or reason to which wrestlers get a UK obit and which ones don't.

Factoid: Steve Wright did host the Radio 1 breakfast show, between Mark Goodier's caretaker spot and Evans doing it full-time.

I think technically it's Sky Sport News that counts for obituaries (which is where the Andrew Millwall loophole saved me two years back), rather than Sky Sports itself. So mentions on Raw would not be valid obits.... unless TMIB can clarify otherwise.

Nanny Pat. Biggest British death of the year?

Licio Gelli, masonic lodge officer who arguably ran Italy clandestinely for about 30 years during the Propaganda Due era, dead at 96. Linked with the Banco Ambrosiano collapse, the murders of Mino Pecorelli and Roberto Calvi, and a whole other heap of good-ass stuff that makes you proud to be a paisan.

The other, oft-overlooked aspect of DDP success is having a specific field of interest that you have the inside track in. It wouldn't be a DQSP side without me fielding some old journo whose stage IV cancer is well-known amongst NUJ members but unpublished online. Similarly, The Living End's always been able to divine the upcoming mortality of people involved in the world of motorsport.

Nobby Stiles is the kind of person who, if he was dying, you'd know about it via the British press. Go with the Murrican.

I'd hazard a guess, if someone wants to do the maths, that the average age of hits among top ten teams is on an increasingly downward trend?

A girl who kinda looks a little bit like Taylor Swift if you squint's mother gets a British broadsheet obit.

Kenwright over Deadly Doug?

Why does this thread currently have 70 guests?

I could be wrong but I'd assume these days anyone who ever played for England once would be get a certain obit. I have no idea who the oldest living former England international is Ivor Broadis, 14 caps between 1951 and 1954.

Do I need to add Mumsnet to the list of forums I scour for "sad news about [marginally obit-worthy charity worker]" posts over the xmas period then?

It's the question that has to be asked...

I was 15 when I made my first dead pool list as well, so it shouldn't take more than 13 years for you to become any good at it.

Roy Jones Jr as a pick makes a lot more sense after reading this article.

Luol Deng, who is the seventh-richest British athlete, could walk down 99.99999% of British streets and nobody would have the slightest fucking clue who he is because he plays a US sport. Basketball is roughly on the level of newsworthiness in the UK as netball or table tennis.

Sinaloa cartel by stoppage in three rounds.

Not the kind of open top ride he would have wanted to take (nsfw obv)

There's a picture of his corpse out there on the ol' www for those of you who miss Ogrish.

Arnold Peralta: left Rangers over the summer, found dead with repeated gunshot wounds in an Honduras shopping mall car park in December. He was the people.

#1 is Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott

#2 is Lil Chris

While my main advice to those looking to join the likes of myself and DDT in the hall of fame would be to take risks, it is worth noticing how this year's top 10 could contain a grand total of one unique hit. Then again, if I'd trusted my instincts that Dr Beverly Hall would get a Reuters obituary (she even got a Guardian one in the end) I'd be on for a three-peat this year, so just ignore me.