Overview
- Williams collapsed near the end of a tag-team match at Enjoy Wrestling’s Five Years show at Mr. Smalls Theatre in Millvale, Pennsylvania on Saturday, Sept. 5, and venue medical staff began CPR before paramedics used an AED and transported him to a hospital.
- The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s Office confirmed Williams’ death late that night to TMZ, and officials have said the precise cause will be determined by an autopsy.
- Accounts of what triggered the medical emergency differ: Enjoy Wrestling co‑owners described symptoms consistent with a cardiac event, while 911 dispatch audio reported to media that he had hit his head on a ring post.
- Enjoy Wrestling canceled the remainder of the event and sent attendees home, and wrestling peers and All Elite Wrestling issued public tributes as the community mourned.
- Williams was the founding guitarist of Every Time I Die who later built a second career as a professional wrestler known as The Butcher, and his death is likely to prompt renewed attention to in‑ring medical procedures and investigations into head and cardiac safety.