{"id":49240,"date":"2023-01-13T20:44:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-was-60\/"},"modified":"2023-01-13T20:44:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T20:44:11","slug":"daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-was-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/13\/daredevil-son-of-evel-knievel-was-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Daredevil Son of Evel Knievel Was 60"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/robbie-knievel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Robbie Knievel<\/a>, son of daredevil <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/people\/evel-knievel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Evel Knievel<\/a>, has died. The second-generation daredevil and motorcyclist was 60 years previous.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie died on Friday, January 13 in Reno, Nevada of pancreatic most cancers. His older brother, Kelly Knievel, advised <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/robbie-knievel-dies-age-60-evel-knievels-son\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> he died after being in hospice care for 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was expected,\u201d Kelly advised CBS News. \u201cHe was in Reno with his three daughters by his side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly mentioned that daredevils like his late father and brother \u201cdon\u2019t live easy lives, but it\u2019s what they do.\u201d Evel (full identify Robert Craig Knievel) died of pulmonary fibrosis in 2007 on the age of 69.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was a great daredevil,\u201d Kelly mentioned. \u201cIf you look at his jumps, that\u2019s what he should be known for. It\u2019s what he loved doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8SMr7XN9NBc\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robbie Knievel jumps the Grand Canyon #Shorts\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8SMr7XN9NBc?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"\/><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Robbie (full identify Robert Edward Knievel III) was identified by the nickname \u201cKaptain Robbie Knievel.\u201d He accomplished greater than 350 motorbike jumps and set 20 world data throughout his gravity-defying profession. One of his most well-known jumps was carried out in 1989, when he accomplished the soar over the fountains at Las Vegas\u2019 Caesars Palace. Twenty-two years prior, his father famously crashed doing the identical stunt on New Year\u2019s Eve 1967.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat was for you, Dad,\u201d Robbie declared after efficiently finishing the stunt.<\/p>\n<p>More of Robbie\u2019s well-known stunts embrace a record-setting 228-foot soar over the Grand Canyon in 1999 (he broke his leg upon touchdown), leaping over a stretch of 30 limousines in 1998 (231 ft), leaping over two 13-story towers in Vegas in 1999, and over 5 army planes parked on the united statesS. Intrepid in 2004. Robbie\u2019s closing soar was in 2011, when he careened throughout a bunch of tractor-trailers at a Coachella on line casino.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie made a handful of tv and movie appearances in his lifetime, a number of being documentaries about his father. Robbie seems within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/i-am-evel-knievel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>I Am Evel Knievel<\/em><\/a> documentary, together with being the topic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/chasing-evel-the-robbie-knievel-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Chasing Evel: The Robbie Knievel Story<\/em><\/a><em>. <\/em>He starred in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/network\/a&amp;e\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A&amp;E<\/a> actuality present <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/knievels-wild-ride\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Knievel\u2019s Wild Ride<\/em><\/a> in 2005 and made appearances in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/chips\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CHiPs<\/em><\/a> in 1982 and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/show\/hawaii-five-0\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hawaii Five-O<\/a> <\/em>in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Robbie started his daredevil profession as a young person was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Robbie Knievel, son of daredevil Evel Knievel, has died. The second-generation daredevil and motorcyclist was 60 years previous. Robbie died on Friday, January 13 in Reno, Nevada of pancreatic most cancers. His older brother, Kelly Knievel, advised CBS News he died after being in hospice care for 3 days. \u201cIt was expected,\u201d Kelly advised [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49240","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}