The main BBC1 Evening News for 27 December 2020 included news of the death of John Huber(Brodie Lee) a Professional Wrestler from the States. I found this surprising because the only other example of a main stream national channel covering the death of a wrestler certainly in the twenty first century was unfortunately Jimmy Saville
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Other wrestlers deaths have been pick up by mainstream press, the thing about Jon Huber was he held a title in AEW just a couple of months ago when the health problem was discovered, he dropped the title in the ring, then started treatment which unfortunately was unsuccessful. So he was a current fairly high profile wrestler hence the interest and we have more wrestling shows available to us now than ever before hence the higher profile.