Brickhouse Brown Passes Away Following Battle With Cancer

Brickhouse Brown has died following a long battle with cancer aged 57. The wrestling legend died at 9:45 AM ET, according to Dave Meltzer of Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

His death inaccurately reported on July 20th due to false information and flurry of condolence messages of Brown's Facebook page. According to the Observer, Brown was pronounced dead after flatlining in hospice care in Mississippi.

Brown was trained by Terry Funk and joined the National Wrestling Alliance in 1983, He captured the NWA Southeastern Tag Team Championship with his partner Norvell Austin. He then moved onto the Championship Wrestling Association in Memphis in 1987 feuding with the likes of Terry Funk, Scott Steiner, Jerry Lawler, and Robert Fuller and the Stud Stable. He had hree USWA World Tag Team Championship reigns, a run with the USWA Television Championship and the WCWA Texas Heavyweight Championship.