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Gino Hernandez

Gino Hernandez was a well-known wrestler in the late 1970s and early 1980s. However, it is his death that has become even more legendary. He was found dead in his apartment in 1986. His death was ruled a homicide but later it was found that he actually overdosed on cocaine. Others have been more skeptical about whether his death was actually a murder. Some reasons are because Gino’s deadbolt was unlocked, he had cocaine in his stomach, and there was three times the amount of cocaine in his body than would have caused a death. Several fellow wrestlers including rival Michael Hayes said in 2016 “I have a real, real hard time believing that Gino Hernandez OD’d… he was most definitely hanging with the wrong crowd, and either ran his mouth too much, or knew too much, or all of the above.” Whatever the cause of his death, the wrestling crowd certainly seems susceptible to early death.