Necro Butcher terminally ill?

[badkarma]

I just saw this video of Necro Butcher and the poor guy is extremely ill.
I can't get a confirmation on his illness, some say it's hepatitis, while others say it's cancer.
Does anyone have any details about his condition?

He's dropped a lot of weight and looks like he's aged about twenty years since the last time I saw him in 2017.
He wrestled a few matches recently with the promotions doing fund raisers for his family and funeral expenses.
Apparently he only has a short time left on earth.


(I edited the title to better reflect the situation - Madison)

[James Fabiano]

Crap, and I just saw him on Card Subject to Change from like 15 years ago.

THIS. DAMN. WEEK.

[Viking Hall]

I'd certainly heard about fundraisers and he certainly doesn't look well but equally I've also heard he'd succumbed to drug addiction, so who knows?

Doesn't seem that long ago when he'd apparently made his fortune and looked like a totally different person again.

[badkarma]

Apr 21, 2020 12:43:28 GMT -5 @adnonlkc said:

I have not heard he is "terminally ill," or anything about "funeral expenses" for him. Source?

I have heard the hepatitis part. 

"IWA East Coast is putting together a benefit show to help raise money for his mother, kids, medical bills and funeral. Guess he pissed away the money that he won. Not 100% what's wrong but apparently he's in really bad shape and doesn't have a lot of time left."
www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/ep8sfs/necro_butcher_sick_hope_its_not_true/

[Deleted]

Damn Necro Butcher was awesome in 2000s

[mcmahonfan85]

jesus, i've only seen a couple of pictures of him since he left ROH a decade ago, and he looks like he's aged 40 years

[Mecca]

I would fully believe that man is 76 years old not 46.

[honsou]

Good god its not that long ago that I saw him sitting at a minor league baseball game looking pretty healthy and now he looks awful. Such a depressing story

[4TheGlory]

I hope he is alright. Didn't he wrestle at GCW not THAT long ago? and I know he was booked for the anniversary ROH show that ended up getting cancelled

[XIII]

Wow, he looks like he’s on deaths door.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Jesus you can tell he's not well, dude's 46 and he looks and talks like he's 80 right now...

[nm]

I wanted to start a thread like this a month or two ago but didn't feel comfortable enough to. If he is ill I hope he's at peace mentally

[mcmahonfan85]

Apr 21, 2020 16:59:13 GMT -5 4TheGlory said:

I hope he is alright. Didn't he wrestle at GCW not THAT long ago?

i found photos from that show, which was just over one year ago (4/6/19), and he seriously looks 5-10 years younger than he does in that video

www.flickr.com/photos/earl_gardner/47583187831/in/album-72157708098895454/

[Derk!]

Jeez. I remember seeing him and Masada beat the living holy hell out of each other back in 06/07. Wishing all the best for the dude...

[badkarma]

It looks like Necro Butcher has been telling people he has advanced liver disease, whether or not it's caused by hepatitis, I can't verify.
His condition could have been brought on by too much booze, and drugs over the years, which would be fairly easy to believe considering his lifestyle.

Apparently John Silver (of AEW) has publicly stated that Necro has hepatitis and should not be booked by any promotion.
I'm really hoping this isn't the case because it would be horribly irresponsible of Necro to potentially expose others to such a terrible disease.
As far as I've seen, he did bleed in one of his recent matches against Shlak, where it looked like his head got busted open the hard way.

[BK From WV]

Apr 21, 2020 13:29:32 GMT -5 @adnonlkc said:

Apr 21, 2020 13:05:05 GMT -5 badkarma said:

"IWA East Coast is putting together a benefit show to help raise money for his mother, kids, medical bills and funeral. Guess he pissed away the money that he won. Not 100% what's wrong but apparently he's in really bad shape and doesn't have a lot of time left."
www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/comments/ep8sfs/necro_butcher_sick_hope_its_not_true/

Random guy on Reddit isn't what I'd consider a reputable source. Especially when the details about a "funeral" are followed by the words "guess he pissed away the money" by said source.

Hope it's not as bad as these people are claiming. But that's all it is at this point. People claiming. Nothing has officially been stated. 

IWA East Coast is based here in WV and I can confirm that they were planning on the benefit show but it got cancelled/postponed because of Covid-19. I have friends who are friends with the people who run IWA and I know it was to help with medical bills and his family but I didn't hear anything about funeral expenses. Not saying it's not true but I didn't hear that. I know they were auctioning off a meet and greet with Mick Foley as well as some other things to help raise money.

Also as the poster above me stated, Necro has been telling people he has advanced liver disease but I don't know of the cause. All I know is he is in pretty bad shape. If I hear anything else from my friends who are in the know with the people from IWA East Coast and Necro Butcher, I will update.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Apr 21, 2020 13:57:01 GMT -5 Mecca said:

I would fully believe that man is 76 years old not 46.

I had no clue Nerco and I were the same age. Keep hearing rumors that this huge amount Necro won a few years ago was like 250,000 tops.Not surprised he has went thru all that. Keep hearing Necro has cancer or liver issues.

[Joe Neglia]

The first time Necro showed up on my radar was when he was a local guy (long before his ROH stuff) in a horrific bloodbath with...Abdullah the Butcher. Given that Hep-C targets the liver, my mind wants to play all sorts of connect-the-dots on that, but I digress. Godspeed to the man, and hope he's doing better than what we believe.

[Natural Born Farmer]

Can you get Hep C just via hard living? Thought there needed to be some needle exchange or something to that effect.

[Joe Neglia]

Apr 22, 2020 15:47:14 GMT -5 Natural Born Farmer said:

Can you get Hep C just via hard living? Thought there needed to be some needle exchange or something to that effect.

It can be transmitted through IV blood transmission (be it illegal drug use or legal but unsanitary hospital equipment), which is its most common method of spreading, but any scenario the transmits the blood of one person into the system of another can spread it. It's how Abdullah spread it - his own infected blood would get into the open wounds of his opponents. Even sex can spread it, though that's uncommon, but if both partners have any sort of wounds in that area, etc.