8 Professional Wrestling deaths in 2016

#3 Balls Mahoney

The two tag team partners left one after the other

Balls Mahoney was at home, playing jeopardy with his family when he felt like he needed to lay on his side. Soon he was unconscious and had died before the medics could arrive. His cause of death was CTE.

At the age of 44, Mahoney was the same age as Axl Rotten when he passed. They were part of a tag team known as the Hardcore Chair Swingin’ Freaks.

He found success with other partners too, most notably Spike Dudley. When WWE came up with the ECW brand, Balls Mahoney was part of that program in addition to Smackdown appearances till he was released in April 2008. He wrestled in the indies since then, until as recently as December 2015.