

They also thanked the company, as well as his colleagues and fans. In a statement shared via the WWE, Drozdov’s family said he died of natural causes. Sending love, strength, mana and light to his family.

We always talked about football and fishing.

Great personality and great wrestling talent. “Man I’m so sorry to hear one of our ring brothers has passed away,” WWE legend Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson said of Drozdov following news of his passing. Drozdov’s time in the WWE was cut short after a tragic accident during a taping of “SmackDown!” in 1999, when he suffered a serious spinal cord injury during a match that left him paralyzed from the neck down.
