Source: f4wonline.com

Saturday, 21 March 2015 08:53



Perro Aguayo Jr., one of the biggest stars in Mexican pro wrestling, shockingly passed away after a match in Tijuana last night at the age of 35.

The son of one of Mexico's all-time most charismatic performers, Aguayo Jr. had started wrestling as a teenage and became an immediate star, and was AAA's top heel performer. Aguayo Jr. was the top heel as well during CMLL's last big run in the Mistico era.

Reports are sketchy but Aguayo Jr. had taken a dropkick from Rey Mysterio Jr. and went to the ropes for a 619, but must have fallen wrong as was passed out. I believe Mysterio Jr. did the 619 to Manik, who was Aguayo's partner, and pinned him after a splash.

The belief was Aguayo Jr. suffered a concussion and would be fine, but he died shortly after in a Tijuana hospital. There are reports of either a brain hemorrhage or cervical spine trauma as being the cause of death.

UPDATE:

There has been footage that has surfaced leading to the death last night of Perro Aguayo Jr. in a match in Tijuana.

Aguayo Jr. had gotten back in the ring after taking a spinning head scissors where he bumped to the floor from Rey Mysterio Jr. Mysterio Jr. gave him a low dropkick to the back to set up the 619. It is not clear whether Aguayo Jr. was selling or out when he first hit the ropes, or while selling, when Manik (T.J. Perkins) fell into the ropes for a double 619 spot that the ropes whiplashed him.

Sources at the hospital have said that the initial cause of death was cerival spine trauma coming from when the ropes snapped his neck.

He was already out when Mysterio went for the 619 and saw he was in trouble and didn't hit him. The belief was he was knocked out and they continued the match, although went right to the finish.

Konnan, at ringside, was trying to revive him and they eventually carried him out and paramedics arrived to the show, before he was rushed to the hospital.

The death will surely get significant media publicity in Mexico where he has been one of the top wrestling stars for nearly two decades, but with a lot of footage already out, it will probably get covered in the U.S. media as well. While not the same circumstances, the death is very eerily similar to that of Mitsuharu Misawa in the ring in Japan in 2009.

Oh sh*t.

This really is a tragedy admittedly I didn't see match of El hijo De Perro Aguayo's matches but what I did see I thought were amazing matches and even if he wasn't a great wrestler even when a wrestler dies especially from an in ring accident it's very sad and Perrito will be missed

Bulletclubfan2014 wrote:This really is a tragedy admittedly I didn't see match of El hijo De Perro Aguayo's matches but what I did see I thought were amazing matches and even if he wasn't a great wrestler even when a wrestler dies especially from an in ring accident it's very sad and Perrito will be missed

It's one of those scary reminders of how dangerous wrestling really is.

i truly consider Perrito to be the best mexican wrestler that was active up until yesterday, he was, aside from the new WWE guys, the biggest draw in Mexico. This is like WWE losing Lesnar out of the blue. It's amazing how we've seen guys dropped from 20-30 ft, people set on fire, stables and bleeding, and then, out of nowhere, what would be the simplest set up to a move, a freak accident happens and he's gone.

cero2k wrote:i truly consider Perrito to be the best mexican wrestler that was active up until yesterday, he was, aside from the new WWE guys, the biggest draw in Mexico. This is like WWE losing Lesnar out of the blue. It's amazing how we've seen guys dropped from 20-30 ft, people set on fire, stables and bleeding, and then, out of nowhere, what would be the simplest set up to a move, a freak accident happens and he's gone.

This. Reminds me of when Misawa died taking a move he'd taken a million times.

Just sad, man

It might be getting worse. I saw something this morning that Baja California's prosecutor is opening a manslaughter investigation about this.

kirbs2002 wrote:It might be getting worse. I saw something this morning that Baja California's prosecutor is opening a manslaughter investigation about this.

It's an investigation. It's not going to be a thing. No one is going to press charges. He comes from a wrestling family. They'll understand. The worst that could happen is that the promotion would get a slap on the wrist, but from what I've heard, they did just about everything right. They didn't carry him out on a stretcher and the doctor didn't come out to check on him right away because the doctor was in the back, treating another severely injured wrestler who was on a stretcher.
Maybe it will lead to the commission mandating that more stretchers/doctors/ambulances are required to be on hand at show. I don't see anything criminal charges bring pressed against anyone.

Big Red Machine wrote:

kirbs2002 wrote:It might be getting worse. I saw something this morning that Baja California's prosecutor is opening a manslaughter investigation about this.

It's an investigation. It's not going to be a thing. No one is going to press charges. He comes from a wrestling family. They'll understand. The worst that could happen is that the promotion would get a slap on the wrist, but from what I've heard, they did just about everything right. They didn't carry him out on a stretcher and the doctor didn't come out to check on him right away because the doctor was in the back, treating another severely injured wrestler who was on a stretcher.
Maybe it will lead to the commission mandating that more stretchers/doctors/ambulances are required to be on hand at show. I don't see anything criminal charges bring pressed against anyone.

they did reportedly arrest Mysterio today, I'm sure he'll be released because of the same things you're mentioning