sek69 Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Rob Viper posted this on the WO board: About 2 and a half hours ago Rey Misterio Jr.'s return to Tijuana ended with him dropkicking Perro Aguayo Jr. & Manik (TJP) into the ropes for a double 619, nailing Manik with the move and splashing him for the win. Except Perro Aguayo Jr. hit the ropes wrong and suffered either a brain hemmorage or cervical spine trauma and was knocked out.He never woke up.An hour later reports came in he died in hospital.I have no words. This is an absolute tragedy.EDIT: Someone in attendance live wrote me and said the spot called for a double 619 but TJP hit the ropes first to setup the 619 which caused the rope to rebound back and nail Perro Jr. as he was falling forward. It struck him in the head & he was already KO'ed when his head hit the ring. It's possible he died right at that moment in the ring but nobody wanted to believe it so they rushed him to hospital anyways.
Karl Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 This is so sad. Was on Twitter at the time the reports started to come through that something was wrong = Rob and Fredo growing increasingly concerned. A tragic, tragic situation. RIP.
pantherwagner Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHld-xmHcG8 Video starts right after the supposed spot that did it and shows how he's getting carried away. There is nothing violent or graphic about it, nevertheless beware when watching. I was sent this (with no description) without being told what was it and right away you can see something is not right. EDIT: Now that I am over the initial shock, let me say that I'd not want to watch the video. I watched it as I didn't even know what it was but it's quite sad. Probably worse than the Oro video in that regard.
Yo-Yo's Roomie Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Jesus, that's horrible news. I've seen quite a bit of Perro recently, incidentally through researching people for the GOAT project, and I always enjoy what he brings to the table. What a tragic accident.
WingedEagle Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Jesus Christ. That is absolutely frightening. What an awful tragedy for his friends and family. Thoughts and prayers to everyone close to him.
Grimmas Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 At one point in the mid 2000's I thought this guy was going to be the greatest wrestler ever. I loved his charisma, his in ring ability and everything about him. What a sad story.
jushin muta liger Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 This is so shocking to me cause I started watching recent stuff of his on the AAA YouTube channel ever since the Rey signing. When Konnan turned him over in the video, I saw some blood coming out of one of his eyes. Hopefully more information will come out cause the video above still doesn't show what really happened. RIP to him also prayers to his family and friends.
ohtani's jacket Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Man, and today was my birthday too. Same year as me. Gutted.
WingedEagle Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Anybody want to recommend a couple of his top matches?
bucky Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 what the fuck man. what in the fuck I can't watch that video. I loved him so much. He was so charismatic. This is the fucking worst.
bucky Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Anybody want to recommend a couple of his top matches? The matches vs Hijo del Santo in 04 and 06 would be a good place to start. They're both on Youtube. I also highly recommend the tag from 1/23/15 with Texano vs Myzteziz and Psycho Clown if you want something more recent.
Mad Dog Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 His match with Mistico in 2005 is probably my favorite match of his.
jushin muta liger Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Here is video of the entire match. I put the spoiler tab for people that don't want to watch. Also here is his last interview right before he went to the ring. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwyltzLhXlU My spanish is rough so I won't even try translate what he says out of respect.
Shining Wiz Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 That didn't look like it was the rope rebounding that caused that. Rey hits a dropkick, and he's out.
Steenalized Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 That's terrible, RIP to the man and I feel awful for the other guys in the ring too when something like this happens.
Bierschwale Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 He looks punch drunk in a way even before that spot, like on the set up to Rey's rana that sent him out. I don't want to Zapruder this any further though, because it doesn't matter, and this is awful. CMLL in '04-'05 was my first sustained run of watching real lucha and it was great to watch a guy become a STAR like he did.
DownNDirtyTN Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 First of all RIP Aguayo. It's hard to watch anyone get killed or die so I don't think I'll be watching this over and over and over. But I did watch a couple of times trying to figure out what happened. Just to me it looked like that initial dropkick rung his bell or did something to him. He was staggered getting up. Then on the roll he didn't get up quite right before the huricanrana to the floor and he immediately jumps back into the ring on his knees and gets dropkicked again to the ropes. That may have been the final blow but something was wrong before that. The ropes did not cause this from what I could see. Things like this can be tricky. He could have had something going on before the match and just a couple of blows the wrong way was all it took. Regardless, it's a tragedy and I feel for his family and the other workers in the match. That's something that you will take with you regardless of who was at fault for the rest of your life.
fakeplastictrees Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Completely unreal. Fuck. It's easy to say, sitting on my couch, that I hope the guys 'don't take it too hard', but fuck. I know everyone involved feels bad in some way even though they didn't do anything 'wrong'.
JazeUSA Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 such a tragedy, his family & friends are in my prayers
DownNDirtyTN Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 And it could have started from a previous injury in another match. There was a boxer back in the day that Max Baer brutally KO'd and during his next fight just a few months later a simple jab killed him. His brain was already nearly detached and one little ding was all it took. But like I said above none of that really matters. I just hope people don't start pointing fingers at Mysterio because I'm sure no one feels worse than him over what happened.
sek69 Posted March 21, 2015 Author Report Posted March 21, 2015 I realize this was an indy show and all, but why did it seem like Konnan was the only one trying to do anything to help him for a long time? Even if you assume the guy's just knocked out you would think the doctor would want to get him out of the way quickly.
van_Fair Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 What an absolute tragedy. This week has been the absolute worst for Triple A. Not only having to postpone one of your biggest show twice, but also having two people die. I was completly shocked when I read the news. I haven't watched a lot of his stuff, but I liked what I had seen.
hammerva Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 I realize this was an indy show and all, but why did it seem like Konnan was the only one trying to do anything to help him for a long time? Even if you assume the guy's just knocked out you would think the doctor would want to get him out of the way quickly. You can see Rey after he hit the 619 went right to him to check on him. I don't think there was anything he or Manik could have done. The best thing to do was quickly go to finish. If indy shows in Mexico are like indy shows in the US, I would have no faith in assuming that company officials/ring gear could handle situations like this
Jetlag Posted March 21, 2015 Report Posted March 21, 2015 Apparently two other workers on the show were injured before and it took the doctors a while to get to Perro because they were still busy with these. This is also the reason they had to improvise a table as stretcher to carry him away. The box/lucha comission is usually extra strict about lucha shows in Tijuana, so normally they would've been able to handle this. Terrible series of coincidences.
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