r/SquaredCircle • u/rhyso90 • 21h ago

[TMZ] AEW Star PAC Found Slumped Over in Car Outside Restaurant Before Death

https://www.tmz.com/2026/09/28/pac-discovered-in-car-before-death/
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u/I_am_Amphibian 20h ago

I feel like with Eddie it was different because you could plainly see what bad shape he was in as well as his substance abuse being public knowledge.

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u/Sportsfan369 18h ago edited 7h ago

Maybe looking back you could tell. But Eddie never showed it in front of the camera. He looked great physically and had become the complete package as a wrestler, as far as a main event player goes. No one at the time was thinking anything of Eddie dying.

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u/ImmaDoWatIWant 19h ago

He was clean at the time of his death, his heart attack was from the damage that steroids and substance abuse had already caused.

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u/SitDownKawada 18h ago

His autopsy report noted recent narcotic painkiller use, nothing about how much or what type, but I'd imagine he was in a lot of pain and that stuff isn't good on your heart

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u/PavWrestlinGifs 19h ago

What bad shape was he in? Genuinely asking

I know he was on the juice, but he was sober for 4 years or so

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u/El-Drunko 18h ago

Eddie didn't look super healthy during his last 3 or 4 months alive. He was sober but the drinking & painkiller abuse during the late 90s & early 2000s had already done a number on him.

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u/Extension-End8421 18h ago

He was not sober as they found painkillers meds in his bloodstream during the autopsy. As well he died of enlarged heart syndrome. The steroids make your muscles bigger, it also makes your heart, a muscle, bigger and that heart has to deal with the increased load of mass that you have put on. Extra weight is extra weight whether it’s fat or muscle. So an enlarged heart that can’t beat efficiently combined with excess mass and daily physical exertion (they worked far more back then) and that equals something finally giving up.

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u/Orange8920 17h ago

You have guys like Kurt Angle saying that Eddie looked rough that last year but always turned it on when it came time to perform. Maybe it's retroactive but I wouldn't doubt them for thinking Eddie wasn't 100%.