{"id":280332,"date":"2026-09-06T13:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280332\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T13:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T13:58:09","slug":"professional-wrestler-andy-the-butcher-williams-collapses-during-show-in-pittsburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280332\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional wrestler Andy &#8220;The Butcher&#8221; Williams collapses during show in Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A popular professional wrestler, Andy Williams, collapsed during a show in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Enjoy Wrestling, during a tag-team match at Mr. Smalls in Millvale, Williams collapsed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Doctors on the staff administered CPR until an ambulance arrived. Williams was taken to the hospital, but his condition has not been made available to KDKA-TV as of Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The wrestling company, Enjoy Wrestling, sent everyone home after Williams collapsed and ended the show. According to their social media accounts, Saturday night&#8217;s show was part of the company&#8217;s final run of shows.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old Williams is known to wrestling fans as &#8220;The Butcher&#8221; in All Elite Wrestling (AEW), and prior to that, he was a guitarist in the metal band &#8220;Every Time I Die.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>KDKA-TV has reached out to the company and will update this story as more details become available.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A popular professional wrestler, Andy Williams, collapsed during a show in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday night.\u00a0 According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74,117235],"class_list":["post-280332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pro-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}