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Although there were several reports out of Mexico that suggested Abismo Negro’s death after being found in a river may have been drug/alcohol induced, more reliable info from the original source, who is under the belief that he had some kind of panic attack and then got lost.

Maria Elena Ibarra of noroeste.com noted that the body was found in a river near Mazatlan at 1:30 PM after supposedly having a nervous breakdown on a bus where he forced the driver to put him out at the river. Gonzalez was very despondent at the scene and no one knows what really happened other than he fell into the river and was trapped in the mud, thus couldn’t get out. Gonzalez sent a text message to his wife telling her that he was lost in the hills by the river and she got in touch with Vicente Martinez who is the local promoter in Mazatlan who began the search. The search party showed up after going around the local towns showing photos of him trying to get any information and they eventually found his body floating down the river by a bridge.

The body was then exhumed from the river and was positively identified as Gonzalez by Jesus Lopez who is the local coroner and he determined that Gonzalez had an anxiety attack which led to the events that caused him to get stuck in the river. Lopez then said that anabolic steroids that Abismo had been supposedly taking at the time could’ve triggered the attack.

Negro appeared in front of US audiences on the 1997 Royal Rumble pre-show and also had a a several week run in TNA during the 2004 World X-Cup.

[Thanks to Kris Zellner for help with this article].