The cause of death for Mexican referee Gerardo Germán Pineda, a.k.a. El Búho (“The Owl”), has been reported.
Reporter Antonio Nieto shared the information that Pineda died of a traumatic brain injury sustained after an independent show in Hidalgo, Texas, where he took a package piledriver from El Hijo de Fishman.
This reveals the AUTOPSY of Gerardo Germán Pineda, the “Owl”:
According to file 12-2026-12673, the referee died from traumatic brain injury. This caused an edema (fluid in the brain) and a subarachnoid hemorrhage (bleeding).
He died between 4 and 12 hours before the autopsy.
After the spot, El Hijo de Fishman was arrested but was let out of jail, with Nieto reporting that a payment was made to Pineda’s family.
Pineda was 75 years old.
