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During a press conference, El Hijo de Fishman described the death of referee Gerardo Germán Pineda, known as El Búho, as an accident inherent to professional wrestling and asserted that he never had the intention to hurt him.
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The wrestler, who is at liberty after reaching a restorative agreement with El Búho's family, pointed out that moves are not planned in wrestling and that both wrestlers, former wrestlers, and other members involved in this sport know the techniques for receiving certain moves, which is why he insisted that it was an accident.
"Agreeing or planning things doesn't happen in wrestling. However, simply by being a former wrestler or having knowledge of it, we know how to fall, we know how to receive certain executions; at the end of the day, these are accidents that happen... it's not that he was taken by surprise... we are all prepared for many executions, holds, punishments, etc., and well, at the end of the day, this happened," he pointed out.
El Hijo de Fishman asserted that what happened does not make him or anyone involved happy, and he reiterated that he never wanted to cause the death of the referee.
"It doesn't make us happy at all, but it was an accident... My intention was never to harm him in this way," he expressed.
El Hijo de Fishman recounts the moments of anguish after El Búho's accident
During the conference, the wrestler recalled how he lived through the moments following the incident and asserted that he felt desperation and anguish upon seeing the state the referee was in.
According to his account, while they were trying to help El Búho, some people used a bottle of alcohol and antibacterial gel to try to make him react.
"I get into the ring and I see the gentleman still breathing, so I started to feel desperation, a horrible anguish, I really can't fathom what I felt at that moment... a young lady shouts: 'the gentleman needs oxygen'. Unfortunately, do you know what they threw at the gentleman to try to make him react? A bottle of alcohol and antibacterial gel."
El Hijo de Fishman also recounted that the ambulance was slow to arrive, which increased his concern for the referee's health status.
"They call the ambulance and inside I was saying 'please let it arrive, let it arrive', I felt like time was passing and it wasn't arriving."
The wrestler acknowledged that what happened marked him for life and reiterated that he never sought to hurt Gerardo Germán Pineda.
"I don't know if I will ever be the same as before, but situations happen for a reason; I was involved, and the only thing I can tell you is that my intention was never to harm the gentleman," he declared.
What did the referee El Búho die of?
According to journalist Antonio Nieto, who cited investigation file 12-2026-12673, Gerardo Germán Pineda died due to a traumatic brain injury that caused cerebral edema and a subarachnoid hemorrhage.
How did El Búho die? This is what is known about the piledriver
During the early hours of October 7, at a wrestling event held at the 11 de Julio Sports Center in Mineral de la Reforma, Hidalgo, El Hijo de Fishman allegedly applied a piledriver to referee Gerardo Germán Pineda, who passed away after the incident.
According to Wrestling Inc., this move "consists of placing the opponent upside down and executing a drop to the mat, either from a seated or kneeling position."
The piledriver is prohibited in various wrestling organizations because it can cause serious head and spinal cord injuries.
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