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Former wrestler and Welsh wrestling icon Adrian Street has died. He was 82.
Street’s wife confirmed his death to the BBC, revealing that the Welshman developed sepsis after being hospitalized with a bleed on the brain.
‘He was recovering from that at home when he developed colitis – a chronic inflammatory bowel disease – which later turned into sepsis,’ Linda Street told BBC. ‘That’s what killed him.’
Street had previously been diagnosed and survived throat cancer in 2001, per Wales Online, but Linda shared with the BBC that his recent health battles “all came about so quick.”
“I’ve still not come to terms with it yet,” she added while expressing that she plans to have his ashes scattered near their home in Cwmbran, Wales, and remembering him as “the kindest, most loving man you could ever meet.”
The BBC reports that Street and Linda first met in 1969.
According to the WWE, the former wrestler worked with his wife as his in-ring manager in several companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, Mexico, and Canada before landing a job at the Continental Championship Wrestling company in Birmingham, Alabama.
The WWE also praised his nearly 60-year-long career, which included creating wrestling apparel worn by Mick Foley and participating in the 1981 film Quest for Fire.
Following the announcement of his passing, notable wrestling pals from around the world paid tribute to Street on social media.
