Bray Wyatt DEAD

[ButterTart]

I normally wouldn’t post a wrestler death on here but this is a big one. Only 36 and one of the big names of WWE over the past decade.

It’s a long time since the dark days of young wrestlers dying of heart attacks in their droves, so this has come as a deeply unpleasant shock.

 

[Funky]

Shocking and a day after Terry Funk, a bad time for the wrestling community.

 

[ButterTart]

There's some comfort in the fact that Terry was 146 years old and somehow managed to get there despite decades of mangling his body for entertainment.

Wyatt still had years of wrestling left in him and put pretty much everyone else on the roster to shame with his character work; it's just a shame WWE had no idea how to book him and wasted his talent and popularity over the past couple of years.

 

[Tetris-Rock]

Really thought his generation had moved past the “wrestlers dying young” trope.

Proper sad news.

 

[Funky]

Shouldn’t dwell on the circumstances of the recently deceased but I do wonder how he died. He seemed to have long term issues that kept him off TV. I wonder if it was related.

Hopefully he has peace now.

 

[Tisch]

Shouldn’t dwell on the circumstances of the recently deceased but I do wonder how he died. He seemed to have long term issues that kept him off TV. I wonder if it was related.

Hopefully he has peace now.

I read it was COVID which exacerbated a heart condition. Very sad, he had very young children.

 

[ButterTart]

Heart attack apparently. He’s been away for months with a serious illness (so the Covid thing makes sense), so maybe this isn’t as sudden as it sounds.

I’m so conditioned to hear ‘wrestler dying of heart attack’ that I automatically add ‘due to massive steroid use’.

 

[Funky]

Yeah I think that’s much more rare now, thankfully.

 

[straightorbroken]

Hadn't heard of him sadly. I google imaged his name and this certainly caught my eye. Who is the guy in front of him?

 

[ButterTart]

Hadn't heard of him sadly. I google imaged his name and this certainly caught my eye. Who is the guy in front of him?

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Is that Finn Balor?

 

[ButterTart]

Just checked and it is. For avoidance of doubt, it was his body paint and not his arse that I recognised.

 

[ButterTart]

 

[big ron]

Heart attack apparently. He’s been away for months with a serious illness (so the Covid thing makes sense), so maybe this isn’t as sudden as it sounds.

I’m so conditioned to hear ‘wrestler dying of heart attack’ that I automatically add ‘due to massive steroid use’.

Exactly, the roids and coke era looked fun, but wasn't great for the old ticker.

 

[straightorbroken]

Just checked and it is. For avoidance of doubt, it was his body paint and not his arse that I recognised.

I should have recognised his arse as I follow it (+ him I suppose) on the gram. Oof.