The motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel, who had been in ill health for several years, has died Friday. He suffered from diabetes, hepatitis C, and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, a condition that scarred his lungs. He was 69 years old.
Evel was recently in headlines for ending a dispute with Kanye West over Kanye’s 2006 video ‘Touch the Sky.’ In the video Kaney plays ‘Evel Kanyevel’ and copies one of Evel’s famous stunts.
Evel’s rep told TMZ,
The world has lost a one of a kind human being. Someone like this we’ll never never see again.
Evel Knievel was better known as motorcycle daredevil and Idaho’s Snake River Canyon made him an international icon in the 1970s.
Source: Mudfreesports
