Jay Briscoe passes away in car accident. Age 38

[KawadaSmile]

Holy shit

[Jmare007]

Fuuuuuck.

I hope Mark and the whole family have a strong support system, they are still very young

[El-P]

WTF ?!

[NintendoLogic]

Reports are it was an auto accident. Awful news.

[C.S.]

This is a shocker. 38 is too fucking young!

[El-P]

 

[The Thread Killer]

I feel sick. This is awful.

[akira maeda]

WHAT THE FUCK

[Strummer]

Just awful. Way too young. 38?  Just tragic.

RIP

[sek69]

My brain auto-corrected the title to "Jerry Briscoe" because, well honestly he would be the one you'd expect hear he passed away.   Beyond tragic news, and even more so after the year they had in wrestling and they were finally getting their flowers from the greater wrestling fandom. 

From most accounts, the Pugh family seems like the extended close knit bunch they were portrayed on TV. I hope that's the case because IIRC Mark just had a kid not too long ago and the poor guy's going to be emotionally overwhelmed for a while. 

[KawadaSmile]

 

From the Observer. My God.

[sek69]

Fuck, the news just gets worse now that there was a kid in the car.   

[Migs]

Heartbreaking.

My daughter and I are what I guess was his last match, at House of Glory a month or so ago. Their family saw my 4 year old and invited them into their family area to play with the other kids during the show. Just a lot of warmth and kindness. I'm so sad for them.

[KawadaSmile]

Classy.

 

[sek69]

22 minutes ago, Migs said:

Heartbreaking.

My daughter and I are what I guess was his last match, at House of Glory a month or so ago. Their family saw my 4 year old and invited them into their family area to play with the other kids during the show. Just a lot of warmth and kindness. I'm so sad for them.

The family really felt like a fun, if not gruff, close knit redneck family that would give you the shirts off their back.

[Coffey]

This really soured my mood. Awful, tragic news. I loved The Briscoes, man. I could always count on Jay giving a really hype, fired up promo to make me still love pro-wrestling. 

[sek69]

 

Folks all over the globe paying their respects tonight. 

(the LA Park/Lucha Bros vs Rush/Briscoes match on the poster here was a great lucha brawl)

[Stiva]

Jesus, this is awful news. Because of how long they’ve been around, I’d assumed he was older than 38. And with a kid in the car too, shocking. RIP to a real one

[sek69]

From a local Facebook group in the area:

 

[MoS]

Jesus. RIP to him. One of the best workers of the century, arguably the GOAT tag team. He had some banger singles matches as well, one with his brother stands out. 

Really hoping that the children are okay. Life is cruel. What awful news to wake up to.

[MoS]

Re-watching this after work today

[RingoPlaysDrums]

Ugh, this is so bad. Horrible news to wake up to.

[SirEdger]

I'm just gutted by the news ever since I learned of it as Vic Joseph was breaking the news during NXT. Jay Briscoe was the heart & soul of Ring of Honor; he was in the very first match of their very first event. Not only a fantastic tag team wrestler (The Briscoes are definitely HOF worthy) but as we've seen early on and in later years, a great singles wrestler as well. He always represented ROH with pride and as we've seen in the multiple tributes so far, he was universally respected as a great friend and family man.

This one hits as hard as Brodie Lee's passing.

[subatomic_elbow]

A tragedy. It knocked the wind out of me.

[El-P]

9 hours ago, sek69 said:

My brain auto-corrected the title to "Jerry Briscoe" because, well honestly he would be the one you'd expect hear he passed away. 

The same. I had this brief moment of "Is that Gerry he means ?", because it made no sense otherwise.

Life is absurd.