What Was Bushwhacker Butch Millers Cause of Death?
WWE Star Bushwhacker Butch Miller Passed Away at 78 Years Old
By Jamie LernerApr. 4 2023, Published 8:18 a.m. ET
While the sector celebrates the enjoyment of wrestling with WrestleMania, it’s additionally now mourning the loss of one of WWE’s greatest wrestlers, Bushwhacker Butch Miller, who died on April 2 at age 78.
The New Zealand professional wrestler was one half of the Bushwhackers wrestling duo and was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015. Now instead of celebrating the Bushwhackers, we’re remembering Butch’s legacy.
Originally born Robert Miller, Bushwhacker Butch rose to fame alongside his wrestling partner, Bushwhacker Luke, in the Nineteen Seventies.
Luke introduced Butch’s death on April 3. Butch had been hospitalized in the ICU on March 31, after he arrived in Los Angeles for WrestleMania. Here's what we all know up to now.
Bushwhackers Butch Miller and Luke
Bushwacker Butch Miller’s cause of death was associated with a “state of affairs with medicine.”
On Wednesday, March 29, the Bushwhackers flew into Los Angeles from New Zealand to have fun WrestleMania.
"He flew in from New Zealand on Wednesday,” Bushwhacker Luke said in an interview (via TMZ). “[He] was all good. Friday morning, he was incognito."
Luke defined that Butch’s hospitalization in the ICU on Friday, March 31, was caused through “a state of affairs with medication,” even supposing not a lot more is known beyond that.
Pro wrestler Frankie Kazarian, additionally at WrestleMania, tweeted, “I ran into Luke on the lodge early on Thursday and chatted for a couple of. At one point later, I saw him inquiring for lend a hand as there was an emergency as I was leaving.”
In 2001, Butch retired after 30 years as a result of of a neck injury. During the hospitalization for his neck damage, he came down with a case of sepsis but in the long run overcame both the preliminary injury and the sepsis. It hasn’t but been shared if Butch’s neck damage and sepsis had any relation to his cause of death.
Several friends, family, and fellow wrestlers paid tribute to Bushwhacker Butch Miller.
Luke shared the inside track via an emotional Instagram post, through which he wrote:
“Late final night, I lost my friend, brother, and tag group partner of over 50 years with the passing of Bob ‘Butch’ Miller … From the early-Nineteen Seventies after we had been younger friends wrestling for John da Silva in New Zealand, my first impact of Bob ‘The Chest’ Miller (as he was known as in those days) was that he was a first-class redneck, and what bloody redneck he was! But he was additionally an all-around just right man and a great pal."
His post continued: “We did it all, we saw it all, and we accomplished it all together. This past weekend in Los Angeles, Bob flew in from New Zealand to join me for Wrestlemania weekend and the related festivities, neither of us knowing it would be our last days together and his last days of life. If you were to read the story of my life it would say that I am an only child, but it would be wrong. In life, I had a brother and his name was Bob Miller. I love you, Bob.”
Luke's daughter, Jackie Williams, arrange a GoFundMe to first quilt Butch’s clinical bills, even if it is going to now help duvet funeral costs.
Butch is survived by way of his spouse, Helen, his daughters, Sharon and Kirsten, and his many grandchildren. Our condolences cross out to Butch's friends, circle of relatives, and loved ones.
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