Biggest Tragedies in Wrestling History

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Originally Posted by Disturbed316 What happened? Was it a move in the ring or did he collapse? Honestly haven't heard about this till now.

I'm surprised you hadn't heard about this til now.

I still miss Misawa. He, Kobashi & Kawada were the guys that made me huge fans of Puro.

Bison Smith has also since passed away back in 2011 from a heart condition.

from Wikipedia:
On June 13, 2009, Misawa teamed with Go Shiozaki against GHC Tag Team Champions Akitoshi Saito and Bison Smith at Hiroshima Green Arena in a title match. After taking a belly to back suplex from Saito, Misawa lost consciousness and was taken to a hospital. He was pronounced dead in the hospital at 10:10 p.m. JST. The cause of death was later speculated in the official police report to have been a cervical spinal cord injury that caused cardiac arrest; however, Misawa's family invoked a Japanese law that requested the police not publicly release the official cause of death.