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Mexican Referee Dies After Piledriver Move, Wrestler Arrested

Hindustan Times1h
THE BRIEF
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Seventy-five-year-old lucha libre referee Gerardo German Pineda died following an in-ring incident with independent wrestler Hijo de Fishman on October 6.

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Mexican authorities arrested Fishman on October 7 and charged him with manslaughter in connection with Pineda's death during the event in Mineral de la Reforma.

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Videos showed the wrestler performing a double-underhook piledriver, after which the referee remained motionless and was subsequently pronounced dead.