31 On September 1, 2018, Poffo appeared at All In in Hoffman Estates, Illinois, accompanying "Black Machismo" Jay Lethal as Lethal successfully defended the ROH World Championship against Flip Gordon. Lanny also appeard on ROH telecasts announcing the action, doing commentary from ringside using his extended vocabulary that he made famous during his Leaping Lanny days of the past. Poffo wrestled his last match on January 19, 2020, winning a six-man tag at SCW Up In Your Face in Rensselaer, New York. Personal life and death Outside wrestling, Poffo published two books. One is a collection of poems and limericks, most of which were related to drug and alcohol awareness, directed toward young children. Poffo was a vocal opponent of tobacco smoking and also published an anti-smoking book of limericks entitled Limericks from the Heart and Lungs!. He appeared in infomercials as an endorser of Tony Little's Gazelle Freestyle exercise machine, and was a certified credit counselor and motivational speaker. In March 2013, Poffo played a K9 police officer in the Discovery Investigation network's "I (Almost) Got Away With It". In 2018, Poffo released a biographical comic through Squared Circle Comics, titled The Genius Lanny Poffo. On September 3, 2018, Poffo, alongside JP Zarka of ProWrestlingStories.com, launched a weekly podcast titled The Genius Cast with Lanny Poffo. The podcast featured 20 episodes including interviews with Hacksaw Jim Duggan, Terry Funk, B. Brian Blair, Fred Ottman, Sean Waltman, Jeff Jarrett, Molly Holly, "Eugene" Nick Dinsmore, "Hustler" Rip Rogers, Kevin Kelly, Bill Apter, Outback Jack, Keith Elliot Greenberg, Sean Oliver, Evan Ginzburg, Alicia Atout, and more. The show ended its run on January 21, 2019. Death On February 2, 2023, Jim Duggan, a longtime personal friend of the Poffo family, revealed that Poffo had died at the age of 68. Dave Meltzer revealed the cause of death to be heart failure. Championships and accomplishments Atlantic Grand Prix Wrestling AGPW International Heavyweight Championship (1 time) Gulf Coast Championship Wrestling NWA Gulf Coast Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Randy Savage Great North Wrestling GNW Heavyweight Championship (1 time) International Championship Wrestling ICW Southeastern Heavyweight Championship (1 time) ICW United States Tag Team Championship (4 times) – with George Weingeroff (3) and Mike Doggendorf (1)1 ICW Heavyweight Championship (3 times) NWA Detroit NWA World Tag Team Championship (Detroit version) (2 times) – with Angelo Poffo (1) and Chris Colt (1) NWA Mid-America NWA