Lucha Libre Star Passes Away El Hijo del Perro Aguayo

Very sadly El Hijo del Perro Aguayo, who has also wrestled as Perro Aguayo Jr. passed away after a match for the CRASH promotion in Tijuana, Mexico last night; he was just 35. Perro Aguayo Jr. was working a match with Rey Mysterio, Tigre Uno and Manik On March 20, 2015 when the freak accident occurred.

Referenced From wikipedia.org “Death On March 20, 2015, Aguayo suffered a severe whiplash injury during a tag team match against Rey Mysterio Jr. and Xtreme Tiger with his partner Manik at a show in Tijuana, Baja California. After being attendeded to by EMTs, Aguayo was taken to the local Del Prado hospital, but was later pronounced dead in the early hours of March 21. According to the initial announcement from the hospital, Aguayo died from a cervical spine trauma, reportedly suffered as a result of a dropkick by Mysterio Jr. that propelled him forward and caused the ring ropes to snap his neck. At the time of the incident Aguayo was not immediately attended to by a physician and was actually taken from the ring on a piece of plywood instead of a stretcher, which lead to some criticism of the event organizers. The Tijuana wrestling commission later explained that the doctor was backstage, attending to two other injuries that happened during the show. One of those injuries was a spinal injury and they did not want to remove that wrestler from the stretcher he was on, which was why they used the plywood to move Aguayo from the ring. The doctors worked on resuscitating Aguayo for over an hour before declaring him dead.”

I am sure more information will come available has soon as some time has passed and everything is sorted out. The young man is dead now and there is nothing that will bring him back however hopefully the wrestling business can learn something from this to help prevent future accidents and help safeguard the workers. I am left to wonder what kind of impact this will leave on his fellow wrestlers in the ring that moment and god bless his family. Just for the record I have seen the video of his death and its quite sad to see, Just a warning. Perro Aguayo Jr., was one of the biggest stars in Mexican pro wrestling. Aguayo Jr., the son of Mexican wrestling legend Perro Aguayo, had been amongst the AAA’s top heels. Rey Mysterio was wrestling in his first AAA match since leaving behind the WWE.

Update: The Death of Perro Aguayo Jr. has now made the mainstream news here in the US.I wonder what impact it will have on people's views on wrestling in general.

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I was wondering and thinking about what my first post on this blog was going to be about. There are literally thousands of different topics and subtopics about the wrestling business I could talk about and then it hit me. It is something I think about any time I read about the business of wrestling and read the various comments from countless wrestling fans on the Internet. It is something that has always bothered me, I consider myself very open-minded person yet still think’s logically and it makes no sense to me why people think like this.

I am referring to the notion that only the WWE should exist and everything else should just go out of business and just disappear from the wrestling landscape. The WWE truly have some fanatical fans of the company sometimes it seems even borderline obsessed fans. And many of them truly love wrestling and they happen to be very loyal to the WWE however they don’t seem to realize wrestling doesn’t just mean the WWE, especially these days. I never been a fanatic of any particular company, I follow wrestling and whoever has the best realest wrestling and that’s what I watch and enjoy the most.

There are many reasons why they shouldn’t be just one wrestling company, just right off the back in the United States that would be a monopoly and that’s illegal. In no particular order here are a couple other major reasons why we need multiple wrestling companies surviving and thriving. One of the most important reasons is competition, without competition people/organizations have a tendency to become complacent. And when people and companies become complacent their product and their services start to deteriorate. For example stupid bunny costumed wrestling matches coupled with horrible acted skits!

Another very important reason why competition is needed is because without other wrestling companies out there the wrestlers are trapped in one company with no other place to go to. Without the other wrestling companies the wrestlers chances of getting raises and another contract benefits are greatly reduced to them. If there is only one company hiring wrestlers then you have a situation where it’s either do it our way or hit the highway. People tend to forget because of the wrestling personas that many wrestlers have families and other loved ones to feed and support with their salaries.