Andy "the Butcher" Williams has passed away at age 48 F.
We know.
>>21131089Who?
>>21131110the guy who sang Moon River
>>21131114That tweet has since been deleted.
Huh
fuck, i always thought he had a pretty cool look.
>>21131089Ringside told you this already
>>21131089KWABOTY
TMZ confirmed with medical examiner
>>21131089He's just too good to be true.
RINGSIDE WONAPOLOGIZE
>>21131145>his partneri hate that even news outlets use faggot speak these days, just say husband/wife for fucks sake
Wonder if everyone is going to apologise to Ringside News now.
>>21131089I always liked him. This sucks, but I hope he's in a better place now. RIP.
The blade gigapush incoming
>>21131148Kek.
>>21131089Everyone owes Steve Carrier an apology
>>21131089So what could it be? Blood clot?
>>21131160>Blood clotWhere could he have gotten one of those I wonder????:thinking: :thinking: :thinking:
>>21131152He is. Being dead is better than being in aew.
I always liked that little walk he did
>>21131152Me too, will miss the big man.
Hmmmmm interesting
>>21131089unironically, who?
>>21131089I will be listening to every time I die all day rip
>>21131167Damn unvaxxed idiots
>>21131167this only makes it clear how vital it is that we all get vaccinated. get your boosters now people.
Sad!
>>21131089RIPWay too young
>>21131177Yes, all aew faggots should get their boosters.
>>21131162the clot shop
>>21131148jej
RIP, I loved how he sold for the bucks in a backstage comedy match despite looking like he could kill them. Very giving performer.
>>21131089When will someone investigate all these suspicious AEW deaths
>>21131089safe & effective
>>21131239>Hasn't wrestled for/been under contract to AEW for 2 years nowWhen is someone going to investigate all this AEW Derangement Syndrome sweeping /pw/
>>21131167>vaxxed>still got COVIDhuh??
>>21131265You started it with us first bitch. Reap what you sow cunt
Vaxxed?
>>21131265He was still under contract, bro.
Tony Khan and AEW claimed another innocent life
So the next Dynamite is gonna be a double tribute show now
>>21131280>you know that immoral thing I dislike people doing? i'm going to do it too because they did it first
>>21131089Damn thats shitty
>could have had an easy life drumming for some mid metalcore band>instead dies in front of 20 redditors at some bingo hall tranny fed, pushing 50 years of age, slogging around on the indie circuit for peanuts.Grim
Get your boosters this fall and winter folx. Covid is no joke.
Should have been called The Plug. He was Tony's snowman during the beginning days but Tony found his own supplier and let Butcher go. Truly an evil man.
>>21131089THE BUTCHER?
This is extremely depressing
>>21131089Took Bill Dundee's death to hard, huh?
>>21131089
>>21131152He's looking up at all of us right now
>>21131167I remember that. It was an outdoor match at Daily's Place and it was like 100 degrees that night. Obviously that and COVID would account for most of it, but his heart was probably also in rough shape from the likely steroid use.
>>21131167Why would Tony force him to compete in that condition? Evil company!
so its a work, got it.
>>21131287Pretty thoughtful outlook, desu. Every time I heard him speak, he always seemed like a smart guy.
>>21131089the WHOtcher?
>>21131748Thought the same from the little I knew about him. Seemed like a decent dude.Saw this news starting to go around last night. Didn't expect this to be the turn it took. Awful to hear. On behalf of the E-gods, we send our condolences. RIP
>AEW books a tribute show to a dying member of the roster>another member of the roster dies days before itcrazy
>>21131759Don't speak for us. This man was a part of a company that actively tried to destroy WWE. As far as I'm concerned he got what was coming to him.
>>21131089Wow that's sad. This is why I don't like hosses. It's not healthy to be jacked and fat at the same time
BASED 'JERK!!
>>21131396>96
Remember: didn't get a sticky:>Tom Zenk>Ron Bass>Nicole Bass>Tatanka>Rosey>Lance Russell>Jimmy Snuka>George Steele>Chavo Guerrero Sr>Bobby "The Brain" Heenan>Nikolai Volkoff>Vader>Matt Cappotelli>Alabama Doink>Dynamite Kid>Dick Slater>Grandmaster Sexay>Brickhouse Brown>Jim Neidhart>Pedro Morales>Big Bully Busick>Harley Race>Lex Luger>King Kong Bundy>Ashley Massaro>Silver King>Super Crazy>Rene Goulet>Fake Razor Ramon>La Parka>The Destroyer>Howard Finkel>Shad Gaspard>Mr Wrestling II>Rollerball Rocco>Larry Csonka>Pampero Firpo>Bullet Bob Armstrong>Road Warrior Animal>Hillbilly Jim>Tracy Smothers>Pat Patterson>Zeus>Puppet the Psycho Dwarf>Butch Reed>Jocephus>Jim Crockett Jr>Don Kernodle>Del Wilkes>Barry Orton>George Hackenschmidt>Paul Orndorff>Super Porky>Mr Pogo II>Assassin #2>Bobby Eaton>Blackjack Lanza>Angelo Mosca>Dominic Denucci>Daffney>Triple H>Ryan Sakoda>Matilda the Hun>Vicki Askew>Mickey Jay>Razor Ramon>Lulu Pencil>Earl Hebner>Tim White>Judo Gene LeBell>Starman>Droz>Ed Garea>Ole Anderson>Virgil>Sika Anoa’i>Kevin Sullivan>Sycho Sid>Pete Rose>Rey Misterio>Sweet Daddy Siki>Bob Bruggers>Harley Quinn Cornette>Mongo>Sabu>Bob Caudle>Larry>Van Hammer>Ted Turner>Dory Funk Jr>The Butcher>Bill DundeeDid get a sticky:>Fastlane 2018>a fight (not a wrestling match) between a retired boxer and some meme MMA guy>Some old shitter guinea from before anyone on this site's grandfather was born>The guy who got cucked by The Rock's mother>Some nip from a reality show>Wyatt Family jobber>Larry-Steve
>>21131905subscribing>to won? What a mark.>>21131914>tfw this is how I find out Matt Cappotelli died
>>21131914Wait didn't La Parka win a title last week in triple a?
>>21131925that's the fake one
>>21131914Not only did Terry Funk not get a sticky, he didn't even make your list.
>>21131936;_;
>>21131943Fucking shameful. Terry was a legend. He was so powerful that he made Newjack feel shame and apologize to him, twice.
>>21131931>he thinks it's a costumethat's a shoot dancing skeleton hermano
is every time i die good? i never really got into hardcore
>>21131089Stopped watching wrestling over a year ago but had to come back to /pw/ to pay respect to the based Butcher
>>21131089they couldn't find a better pic to use? he looks like a chud>>21131953probably not, that's a bad genre
>>21131958Abdullah is still with us tho!
>>21131953I think I listened to them once and liked it. But not enough to listen again I guess.
>>21131953Well if you don't like hardcore you're probably not gonna like ETID. That being said its probably the best hardcore band in existence so its worth a listen if you like metal
>>21131979Hardcore used to mean like hardcore punk, Black Flag, Battalion of Saints, Necros, etc. I guess it means metal now.
damn sheeeeeesh
how come i'm just hearing about him doing music now? i thought that was jericho's big thing doing both music and wrestling now he doesn't seem so special anymore wtf
>>21131914i still cant believe fastlane got a sticky. horrible ppv and nothing happened on it
>>21132003not to this metalhead purist. metal is metal. punk can get fucked. that shit is not metal and never will be.
>>21132014You're exactly right. But the origin of the term hardcore was hardcore punk rock, not metal.
>>21132014Metal is a subgenre of punk
>>21131914la parka is still alive right?
>>21132036Nah it's not dude lol. Hardcore did start as a genre descriptor for the faster more intense American punk style in the early 80s but metal goes back to Sabbath. Punk as a genre descriptor started in the late 70s, you can argue it started with the Ramones in the mid 70s. Some, myself included, consider The Stooges the progentiors of it but I'd call it proto-punk. Even then, Sabbath came first. It's a separate genre though there is a lot of overlap of sub genres.
>>21132056He was baiting you bruv don't sell it oi oi
>>21131914Based Sticky reminder anon
>>21131089Whats the Podcast say on this matter?
>>21131089TMZ just posted the 911 call where it was reported a wrestler was badly injured during a match when their head hit the ringpost
>>21131319>could have had an easy life drumming for some mid metalcore band>easy life>drumming
>>21132003Unironically who gives a fuck. If you like metal you might like ETID, thats all I said.Stop being a whiny faggot
TMZ is saying the 911 call specified his head hit the ring post.it wasnt a heart attack
>>21132086oh shit it's a death IN THE RING like Mitsuharu Misawa? i didn't realize he died from an injury in a match that's pretty rare
>>21132094oh this is getting fucked up now
F to one of the nicest people I've ever met in or outside of wrestling. On a related note though, I wonder how they're gonna pay tribute to him on the dedicated Rebel Heart for ALS show
>>21132093ETID sucks bud
>>21131167Its insane to think the big pharma said we need you folx to take a vaccine every month and like half the morons posting here said>Sign me up!
>>21132094I heard this as well. They definitely called and said that. No one in attendance seemed to notice the head strike the post though, at least not that has posted about it. They all have said the match was seemingly going fine and then Butchers legs just folded and he fell. Blade tried to get him up. He fell again and that's when medical came to the ring and first dumped ice on him then did CPR and eventually defibrillator and then he was taken away in the ambulance and the show ended. So if that call was accurate or the caller was just confused on what had occured, the crowd didn't seem to notice the strike.
>>21132094>his head hit the ring post.GODDAMN YOU FAUCI THIS IS ON YOU!
so i guess they didn't Enjoy Wrestlingcan they still call it Enjoy Wrestling anymore?
>The remainder of the event was canceled following Williams' collapse.
>>21132131It was literally their finale show, the promotion was closing after it. So it was their swan song and it ended abruptly mid event with the death in the ring of a wrestler. Grim.
gross statement from AEW: "Williams made a successful transition"
>>21132135holy fuck
>>21132135kek
>>21131089I'd die too if I was in AEW
>>21132148UHHH IT WASN'T ON MY WATCH I SWEAR THIS HAPPENED SOMEWHERE ELSE!!!!
>>21132135that's soul as fuck
The audio https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/06/andy-the-butcher-williams-death-911-audio/
>>21131914>>21131914>Did get a sticky:>>21131914holy fuck
>>21131089>No stickyDimeless shitter status?
>>21132135They should do one last tribute show unless this was caused by their own negligence and not a freak accident
Terse, guarded WWE-like statement from AEW very carefully making sure to mention Williams was no longer under contract when he passed like WWE always does every time a wrestler dies.
>>21131110only wrestling fans know who he is
>>21132168Carny fuck Alvarez would've hid it behind a paywall
One person on Reddit says:>I was there, no clue where the head injury angle is coming from. he was already overheating and feeling off in like the very beginning of the match, and they did a spot early on near the bar and the blade got him some ice. i fear he got some kind of warning sign and then just went with the match and it was too much for him. horrible night and experience for everyone attending and involved.(their post history supports the fact that they live in Pittsburgh, the area where the event was held)
>hit his head on a ring postBlunt force trauma to the head. Can't really blame the promotion for this one or the talent. Freak accident where he forgot to protect himself during a spot
>>21132135>>21132178according to their Twitter bio they do/did have one upcoming show a month from now but that may not happen now:"Tacomania 10/4 at Southside Works."
AI-written statement by AEW
So where is the video?
>>21132192>anglei know what he means but probably a poor choice of words there
>>21132203Not a single indication that is AI
>>21132192That's what I am seeing too from all the people who were there who have posted that I've read. The caller saying it was from the head hitting a ringpost doesn't mean that's what it actually was. We will have to wait and see but no one that was there has mentioned it.
>>21132203>dronies console warring a deathWWE is in the fucking gutter right now and I was going easy on you guys because you're not supposed to kick someone while they're down but man you guys make it hard not to kick you
>>21132202That'll probably be a Butcher tribute show or should be. More fitting way to close the place than what happened.
>>21132203a bit generous perhaps calling him a trailblazing musician but it doesn't appear to be AI to me although I could be wrong. would be cold as hell if they used AI to write that.
>>21131914>didn’t get a stickylarry>did get a stickylarry-steve based lexi going over phil
>>21132218Its not. Thats a personalized message by Tony. I'd recognize his ADHD writing style anywhere.
>>21132203>successful transition
>>21132203Wow, he sounds like an amazing talent. Why'd Tony fire him?
>>21131287That interview is from March. Supposedly the contract expired in July
You have no idea how much I hate this jeet. Constantly grifting even in days like this
>>21132176mirror status?
>>21132238that's disgusting. there's no bottom for these vultures. no low they won't stoop to.
>>21131914>Did get a sticky:>>Fastlane 2018>>a fight (not a wrestling match) between a retired boxer and some meme MMA guyPops me everytime
>>21132238give me the rundown on this jeet
>>21132234Clerical error.
Will Tiny just pretend he never fired this dude during the tribute show?
Fastlane 2018 card:>Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze) and Tye Dillinger defeated Mojo Rawley, Chad Gable, and Shelton Benjamin by pinfall>Shinsuke Nakamura defeated Rusev (with Aiden English) by pinfall>Randy Orton defeated Bobby Roode (c) by pinfall - Singles match for the WWE United States Championship>Natalya and Carmella defeated Becky Lynch and Naomi by pinfall>The Usos (Jey Uso and Jimmy Uso) (c) vs. The New Day (Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods) (with Big E) ended in a no contest Tag team match for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championship>Charlotte Flair (c) defeated Ruby Riott by submission - Singles match for the WWE SmackDown Women's Championship>AJ Styles (c) defeated Baron Corbin, Dolph Ziggler, John Cena, Kevin Owens, and Sami Zayn by pinfall - Six-Pack Challenge for the WWE ChampionshipDid it deserve a sticky?
>>21132263Probably. He might even bring back The Blade for a tribute appearance. Tony's a scumbag who will do anything to pop a rating.
>>21132260He's AEW's WrestleOps (unfortunately). Account run by an Indian living in India who mimics the cadence of an American Redditor: "OH MY HECKIN SCIENCE THIS SO MUCH THIS." Steals content without credit, can't simply report the news without injecting his two rupees into everything.
>>21131114>>21131119>twitter """""""journalism"""""""
>>21132329BREAKING (WON): There are no more nice people left in AEW
he was only the 4th most famous Butcher in wrestling but still RIP to him
>>21131089S. Faggot.
FIt's a shame he and Blade never got the tag titles in AEW, they were a dimes tag team.
>>21132353We don't sign our posts here
>>21132008Every Time I Die is pretty well known dude
>>21132229fuck you for making me laugh
>>21131953pic related is a high 9/10 album to me musically and lyrically, just perfect mix of badass riffs and demented shouted poetry, dont consider them hc at all, its metalcore but they always cited GnR as an influence and I notice a more loose swinging style to their riffs that you don't normally get in metalcore which tends to be more stiff sounding.Sadly the follow up album was so disappointing to me I stopped listening to them.I knew he wrestled but I rarely watch aewF brother
>>21132211Yeah I don't really buy it, I think the caller was mistaken and just assumed that hitting the ringpost was the cause. He was a big dude and carried a lot of fat and muscle for a long time, basically the exact type of guy I would expect to have a heart attack at some point
>>21132329can't they tell us something bad about him so we don't have to feel sad about him dying? this sucks
>>21132354they had the look but something was missing
>>21131914>Alabama DoinkWho?
>>21132413https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWubQzo2Z-4
>>21132413Go back.
>>21132295He has yet to continue a show after one of his wrestlers died in the ring.
This just in: Andy Williams has returned to Every Time I Die.
>>21132435Vince can proudly claim the same given Owen that was a sports entertainer.
>>21132455you cry about the owen hart cup every year, pigboy
it's interesting that he's the 4th wrestling Butcher yet the 2nd to die. and he only outlived Paul Vachon by 2 years and he made it to 86.
>>21131089AIDS
why did it have to be the cool wrestler/guitarist and not the creepy pedo from wheel of fortune?
>>21132470This isn't the thread for volunteering your medical conditions.
>>21132452
>>21132464>You cry about billionaire tony exploiting a wrestler who he never employedYou don't say
>>21132474Mirror strikes again, Kev
he only makes it to 48 meanwhile that nonce Jim Thornton is 61 or 62 and still gets to live. it's not fair
>>21132301give him a break, he's an Indian, he has no soul so he's doing his best to assimilate by mimicking human behavior.
>>21132482save some of that venom for the billionaire who killed him
>>21132490not too much on Vince he's having a hard time right now, he's still angry a wrestling company stopped the show after a wrestler died
financially struggling indie company cancels the shows and refunds the fans immediately without hesitation before Butcher is even declared dead yet the global juggernaut WWF during it's biggest year ever at the time couldn't afford to do that.
>>21132507Pat Patterson unironically raped grieving fans
>>21132507>the global juggernaut WWFTruly evil company.
>>21131914>Tatanka>Triple Hpops me everytime
>>21131089>AAA debuts El Carnicero (the butcher)>American The Butcher diesDid Undertaker do some black magic?
>>21132507Stone Cold could have been trampled to death by an elephant with brain matter splattering all over the front row and Vince would have shrugged and said, "We're live, pal"
>>21132490Fuck you Otto Herzog!
>>21132507Butcher would have wanted the show to go on. Shindies are just incompetent.
>>21132102>>21132131>>21132135>>21132507I have a feeling the promoter might commit suicide or ends up missing. The last thing you don't want is a wrestler dead after closing up shop because you'll be sued to hell and back by everyone who attended to the event.
>>21132490killed by a billionaire. well there's a first for everything, i guess.
>>21132507That part.
KWABOTY status?
>>21132560Talking about firsts, have you found a job yet?
>>21131089I still don't understand why Butcher and the Blade weren't pushed to the moon. They could work well enough, they had an awesome look, Butcher had enough charisma for both of them and Blade was still cooler than both Young Bucks and FTR put together, they weren't sawdusted for the first several years of AEW, and I've never heard anything about them being difficult to work with backstage, or any other talent not liking them. Like sure, at the end of the day they still need to job to the Young Bucks, that's politics, but they could have been as close to as over as the Road Warriors as you can get in modern wrestling. And don't give me any shit about scheduling. The Lucha Bros were pushed like crazy and Fenix was out with a career ending injury every other match. Early AEW was kind of jank in a lot of ways, but it had one of, if not the most stacked tag rosters of all time and Tony did almost nothing with it.
It's really terrible timing that the Rebel ALS fundraiser show was booked ahead in advance. That's quite unfortunate
>>21132642>they could have been as close to as over as the Road Warriors as you can get in modern wrestlingThis is an absolutely delusional take.
>>21131089I hope he's in a better place now, somewhere where he is booked in shows
>>21132652As close to as over as the Road Warriors as you can get in modern wrestling isn't very over. There are roughly a total of 0 over tag teams right now and tag teams in the WWE cannot exist as anything other than complex humiliation rituals, and in AEW you can only be as over as you can get with the audience knowing you're going to job to the Young Bucks or disappear off TV for no reason.
Solid tag team and overall a nice human.Shame
Kwabotty status ? No one cares about butcher and blade
>>21132056Only poor faggots care about metal. Half of those who do are literally communists.
AEW KILLED this man. No one deserves to die from anal ruptures like this guy did.
>>21131089Thought this guy was cool at this is sad rip
>>21132735The over 650 posts in multiple threads beg to differ.
everybody is literally fucking dead now. was watching a hogan video on youtube wwe put up today and that fucking dirtbag grifter dibiase was the only one in it that's still alive.
Up next is JR then rebel. Hopefully then Cody
>>21131089I wonder why the cord had people trying to say he wasn't dead
>>21132761aw man anybody but JR :(
>>21132507that’s why they’re out of business. Never gonna make it by putting postmodern liberal “””morals””” and le heckin basic human empathy ahead of making enough money to have your employees make a living. If they were a serious company they would be able to provide their wrestlers a low deductible (10k) health care plan on a low premium (300 a month) and this guy would still be alive
*bonk!*
>>21132852The guy didn't look healthy, I think a heart attack is simply more likely than another perro aguayo thing. But who knows, I wouldn't be surprised if the footage came out eventually
>>21132852That's one ugly dead loser
>>21132952we don't predict our future obituaries here
>>21132260Tony's burner account
>>21132958We don't because mine is going to say "Wasted potential."
It's gotta be rough when the peak of your career is defined by a retard in a mask screaming your name without any further explanation
>>21132996We don't post how our dad's got us fired from our jobs here.
>>21131914Was fastlane 2018 really that bad?
>>21131914where’s you know who
>>21131319He was the guitar player you dummy. Also I think it was the singer that went awol and killed the band so they disbanded.
>>21131089This guy seemed pretty based rip dude
>>21133016>>21132277
>>21132642Young bucks are politicking faggots who get jealous if anyone even sniffs the possibility of getting over that aren’t in their friend group
>>21131089I will find his killer.
>>21131089Damn. Why couldn't it had been omega or one of the bucks
>>21133024Yeah, Keith Buckley is an insufferable dickhead so they all went their own way. Keith started a new band called Many Eyes, who are pretty shit.Anyway, the best ETID album for me is The Big Dirty.
blunt force trauma to the head. im heartbroken for him bros
Why did Tone fire him and force him to work with unsafe shindies who shoot killed him just to save a few extra pennies?I thought business was booming, why are they cutting costs? Why doesn't Tone look after his talent?Grim, aew is dying
>>21133101>get jealous if anyone even sniffs the possibility of getting over that aren’t in their friend groupGood thing the Butcher and the Blade were in their indie friend group, then, wasn't it. Shame on you using somebody's death as human fluid for your pathetic parasocial hatred.
>>21133259On the flip side if he was any good at his job and didn't take Tony for granted he would still be employed in the big leagues and alive >Every time I----ACK
Why hasn't he commented yet?
>>21133361he's hangin out with the dogs
>>21131089F
>>21133361Too busy texting Big Justice.
>>21131089Damn shitter.
>>21131089RIP ButcherF
>>21132757Beautiful White Woman
>>21133375>The dogs are in the back
>>21135974kill yourself pedo
>>21131089sucks. It seems like he was part of the early AEW history that I just got to see the tail end of when I started watching AEW. RIP
Deserves a sticky
>>21131089Was it cum in the lungs?
>>21131089Undertaker did this to clear the name for his luchador wrestler
>>21136271Head trauma. It was a ring post spot that apparently did him in so it must've triggered some dormant damage.
>>21132192There has to be a live taping/fancam recording of this match on YouTube right? So I can do my visual forensics
>>21132507You don't get rich by being nice
R.I.P. Bozo
>>21131705Was he using roids ever?
Excalibur just who the damn hell is he??
>>21132277>>Breezango (Fandango and Tyler Breeze) and Tye Dillinger defeated Mojo Rawley, Chad Gable, and Shelton Benjamin by pinfallShelton and Chad deserved better
>>21132409They never talked, and were always lackeys
>>21131089so he died because he was fat?
>>21136333many are saying this
>>21131114Twitter wrestling ‘journalists’ are just a bunch of dudes constantly gambling on 50/50 coin flips for no money or discernible reward.
Genuinely had no idea who this was until someone mentioned The Blade. RIP I guess.
>>21133271hope the bucks see this bro
>>21131115
>>21131089He shaped an era.