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Ohio College Wrestler, 19, Dies in Car Crash: 'A Heartbreaking Start to 2025,’ Coach Says. Sean Neumann. January 8, 2025 at 11:36 AM. Brucker-Kishler Funeral Home. Joshua Taylor.
Brian William Pillman [4] (May 22, 1962 – October 5, 1997) was an American professional wrestler and professional football player best known for his appearances in Stampede Wrestling [5] in the 1980s and World Championship Wrestling (WCW), Extreme Championship Wrestling (ECW), and World Wrestling Federation (WWF) in the 1990s.
Terry Wayne Allen (born June 11, 1959) is an American retired professional wrestler, better known by his ring name, Magnum T. A. Allen won the NWA United States Heavyweight Championship twice and was being groomed for a potential run with the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, but a car crash in 1986 forced him into retirement.
The concept of the untimely deaths of professional wrestlers was a frequent topic of discussion on the Opie & Anthony show. [16] After Scott Hall's death in 2022, Bret Hart and Kevin Nash talked about the premature death of several wrestlers, mentioning the mental and body damage as possible causes. [17] [18]
Jay Briscoe, a wrestler with the Ring of Honor, died in a head-on car accident in Laurel, Delaware, on Jan. 17 that killed one other person.
Community members in Massachusetts are mourning the loss of a teenage athlete who died suddenly at wrestling practice on Sunday. Freddy Espinal, 17, lived and went to school in Peabody, just ...
By 1971, Cortez was wrestling in America and held the AWA World Tag Team Championship with Red Bastien. On July 24, 1971, Hercules Cortez died of injuries suffered in a single-car accident early in the morning. Cortez and Bastien were returning to Minneapolis-St. Paul after a tag team match in Winnipeg just hours earlier.
Gunnar Eudy, one of the wrestler’s two sons, wrote on Facebook that his father died after “battling cancer for several years.” The 6-foot-9-inch Eudy went by many names in the ring ...