In a tragic accident one of Mexican wrestlers biggest stars Perro Aguayo Jr. died in the ring last night while competing in a match with Rey Mysterio.
Wrestling Observer tries to pin point exactly what went wrong.
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.
There are a couple of videos of what happened and you can see the wrestlers clearly knew something was wrong, just not the extent of the injuries.
Aguayo Jr. was only 35 years old.