{"id":339593,"date":"2026-09-06T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339593\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:46:08","slug":"buffalo-musician-pro-wrestler-andy-williams-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/339593\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo musician, pro wrestler Andy Williams dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Both sports and rock fans in Buffalo are mourning the death of Andy Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Known as &#8220;The Butcher&#8221; to All Elite Wrestling fans, the North Tonawanda native died after collapsing during a match in Pennsylvania Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>He was 48.<\/p>\n<p>Williams was also known around the world as part of the chart-topping metal band Every Time I Die.<\/p>\n<p>He spent more than two decades as guitarist in the Buffalo-based group before they disbanded four years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Both sports and rock fans in Buffalo are mourning the death of Andy Williams. Known as &#8220;The Butcher&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,380],"class_list":["post-339593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}