Overview
- Daily Star reports that Kerwin Silfies, a longtime behind-the-scenes WWE director who joined in 1985 and retired during the pandemic, has died.
- Silfies is credited with directing landmark productions, including the first Saturday Night’s Main Event and WWE’s first show in Saudi Arabia.
- He was noted for crafting wrestler vignettes, including work credited with establishing Curt Henning’s ‘Mr. Perfect’ persona in the late 1980s.
- Beyond WWE, Silfies was credited with directing The Last Full Measure, a Stacy Keach‑narrated Gettysburg documentary, and he appeared in a WrestleMania IX documentary.
- Separately, Tadao Yasuda was found dead at his Tokyo home on February 10 at age 62, with NJPW noting his Inoki LA Dojo MMA training, a win over Jérôme Le Banner, and his later IWGP Heavyweight Championship.