{"id":280614,"date":"2026-09-07T01:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280614\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:14:13","slug":"pro-wrestler-andy-the-butcher-williams-dies-after-collapsing-during-show-near-pittsburgh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280614\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro wrestler Andy &#8216;The Butcher&#8217; Williams dies after collapsing during show near Pittsburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/pro-wrestler-collapses-during-show-in-pittsburgh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KDKA<\/a>) \u2014 A popular professional wrestler, Andy Williams, collapsed during a show in the Pittsburgh area on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>According to Enjoy Wrestling, during a tag-team match at Mr. Smalls in Millvale, Williams collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors on the staff administered CPR until an ambulance arrived. Williams was taken to the hospital, and on Sunday morning, Williams&#8217;s agent confirmed to KDKA-TV that he had died.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was a wonderful man, and I will miss him every day,&#8221; his agent said.<\/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 was 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;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. (KDKA) \u2014 A popular professional wrestler, Andy Williams, collapsed during a show in the Pittsburgh&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-280614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280614","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=280614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}