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Unfortunate<\/a>: Jon Huber AKA Brodie Lee in AEW, Luke Harper in WWE, passes away at the age of 41, due to alleged non-COVID related lung disease<\/span><\/p>\n Firstly, I genuinely do feel bad to hear about this story, because Jon Huber was an extremely good wrestler, and it is always a tragedy to hear of a guy leaving the world this soon, especially when he\u2019s leaving behind a wife and two kids.\u00a0 At 41 years of age, he\u2019s not much older than me, and many of my current friends, which is also very harrowing to hear of.<\/span><\/p>\n I had a high opinion of Jon Huber, and it was a running joke between one of my friends and I that he was a picture-perfect future IWGP World Champion<\/a> if he ever decided to cross the ocean and go to Japan, because the mold of the evil foreign white man that NJPW loved to use to have their heroes pursue for championships was basically built off of guys like him.<\/span><\/p>\n Instead, he went to AEW, where he briefly enjoyed a modicum of success, being unveiled as the leader of the Dark Order, having one World title shot at Jon Moxley which he lost, but then squashing Cody Rhodes for the TNT Popeyes<\/a> Championship, before losing it back to him a month later.\u00a0 To my knowledge, that was his last appearance, and he never appeared again on television until the news of his passing.<\/span><\/p>\n Here\u2019s the thing though: the news is still fresh, the grief among the industry and the fandom is still outpouring, but I hate to be the guy that wades through all the sadness to wonder just what really happened.\u00a0 From what I\u2019ve heard, Lee passed away from an unnamed \u201cnon-COVID\u201d lung issue, but I can\u2019t help but feel all sorts of skepticism for these vague circumstances.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n I feel like if he had died from emphysema, it would\u2019ve been said he died from emphysema.\u00a0 If he died from COPD, it would\u2019ve been said he died from COPD.\u00a0 There are all sorts of lung issues that are not COVID related and have actual names, and I can\u2019t help but be curious to know whether or not there\u2019s some intentional misdirection being given out here, because I\u2019m sure most everyone who cared about the news, wondered if coronavirus had anything to do with it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Make no mistake, the first three things that popped into my head before his wife came out and made a statement, was drugs, suicide or coronavirus, because as fucked up as sounds, the first two things are usually what are involved with a wrestler the age of Huber dies, and of course, COVID is on the tip of everyone\u2019s tongues these days.<\/span><\/p>\n The thing is, I don\u2019t know how Huber and his family leaned in terms of politics and \u2018Murican beliefs, but if there was any sort of right-way leaning, then of course he couldn\u2019t possibly have died from the Chinese Kung-Flu, and they will want everyone to believe that he didn\u2019t die from coronavirus.\u00a0 But the fallacy to a lot of COVID-deniers is that coronavirus itself might not always be the party delivering the killshot, but it\u2019s still more than capable of assisting other ailments do it all the same, and more than happy to revel in the end result regardless of the percentage of responsibility.<\/span><\/p>\n For example, I have a local acquaintance who had been unfortunate to have lost their father recently.\u00a0 The cause of death was listed as a kidney-related issue, I don\u2019t know the specifics.\u00a0 What I do know is that they also had coronavirus, and in spite of the fact that it was not credited with being the reason of death, it doesn\u2019t take a genius to understand that it probably did a number to his body to where the kidney issue could become more potent and lethal.<\/span><\/p>\n Who\u2019s to say that Jon Huber didn\u2019t have coronavirus, or had it at one point, and was suffering some of the known-lasting effects of the virus, especially to lungs and other pulmonary functions?\u00a0 AEW runs all their shows outdoors, even in seasonally dropping temperatures, has live audiences, as socially distanced as they may be mandated, and in the state of Florida, where the infection numbers have been substantially higher than many others.<\/span><\/p>\n The insistence of disclosing that it was non-COVID related makes me feel like the overcompensation is in fact giving credence that maybe it could actually have been.\u00a0 At this point, I would suspect that there\u2019s a little bit of damage control in play by AEW, to try and quell any suspicion that it could\u2019ve been COVID-related, because it would look really bad for the company, since they operate in the exact manner just described.\u00a0 And considering they\u2019re still the #2 (out of 2) promotion in the country no matter how much they try to put their ratings wins over, any particular allegations of unsafe working conditions are most definitely not what they need to be tagged with.<\/span><\/p>\n I know this is a lot of my usual conspiracy-theory crafting here, and the timing is not particularly good.\u00a0 But I would appreciate more truth and transparency with things, and not have to feel like there\u2019s any bit of business protection going on here.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s all still early and fresh, and maybe we will get some more answers.\u00a0 It\u2019s also a shame that it\u2019s come at the expense of such a quality talent, but I just have this suspicion that we\u2019re not getting the whole story.<\/span><\/p>\n Well, regardless of what transpires in coming weeks, this is certainly one way that\u2019s going to make AEW Dynamite interesting, for better or worse.\u00a0 I was never a fan of Brodie Lee the Exalted One leader of the Dark Order, because I frankly thought he was better than the entire faction, but it\u2019s no longer his or anyone else\u2019s problem anymore.\u00a0 This\u2019ll be a mountain of a test for AEW\u2019s creative process to write their way out of this one, because the faction\u2019s leader just actually passed.\u00a0 How are they going to dig themselves out of this plot hole now?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unfortunate: Jon Huber AKA Brodie Lee in AEW, Luke Harper in WWE, passes away at the age of 41, due to alleged non-COVID related lung disease Firstly, I genuinely do feel bad to hear about this story, because Jon Huber was an extremely good wrestler, and it is always a tragedy to hear of a … Continue reading That\u2019s one way to make AEW more 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