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AMANDA HUBER, WIFE OF BRODIE LEE, STRIKES BACK AT CRITICISM CALLING FOR MORE 'TRANSPARENCY' IN DETAILS BEHIND HER HUSBAND'S PASSING

Yesterday, Bruce Mitchell of the Pro Wrestling Torch website was dismissed from his position with the outlet after 30 years due to a column he wrote, calling for AEW and the family of Jon Huber to provide more transparency in Huber's passing due to the current pandemic, despite Huber's widow Amanda specifically stating that her husband died of a non-COVID 19 lung ailment in her initial announcement of his passing this past weekend at the age of 41.    

Amanda Huber issued the following statement via her Instagram account's story, a screenshot of which is included below from Cash Wheeler's Twitter account, one of many professional wrestling personalities who have passed the statement on via their own social media - the only edits will be to expletives:

Imagine being 17 and spending a night chatting with a mutual friend. Then realizing that they were "the one."

You spend 7 years in an on-again/ off-again relationship only to break up. Then you give it one last shot. One last try. You start therapy and really push each other to become better people. You date some more. Navigate some crazy life curveballs. You find out you're having a baby boy the day he is downsized. Then an injury in the sport they love. But you fight thru that. You get married and have the most beautiful little boy. That day you find out they got their dream job. The job they never in a million years thought they'd get.

You give up everything to watch them chase that dream. It pays off and that world becomes everything. It gives you both everything you've ever dreamed of. You go on to build your dream life with another perfect little boy, 2 crazy dogs, and 5 cats. They get an opportunity to really bet on themselves and you watch them shine like never before.

Life is SO good.

Then suddenly one day that person gets sick. Each day they get sicker and sicker. You know how much they value their privacy so you ask those helping you to keep it quiet out of respect for them. You watch helplessly as they get worst a worst. COVID test, after COVID test, after COVID test, come back negative. You almost pray for a positive one because it would be some kind of answer. You never get one.

Suddenly they are gone.

You have to try to figure out how to imagine your future now.

Then you read a "journalist" demanding "transparency" and insinuates you're hiding something. That it's some type of cover-up. Something more so sinister. That you aren't serving his memory best by not offering up information you're still trying to process. As if his death was a public health hazard. It wasn't. It was a tragedy.

There's no cover-up. There's no conspiracy. There was just a series of unfortunate events that ended in your world being crushed.

What kind of position does that put you in? When you're trying to grieve and people practically expect you to post medical records because since they were a public figure, they are entitled to all the knowledge of what happened.

It wasn't covid. There's no shame in dying from covid but it's not what it was.

You have no answers and you're just left there.

Can you just f***in imagine that?

It should be noted that while Wade Keller, the owner of the Pro Wrestling Torch has (rightfully, in my opinion) issued an apology to the Huber family for any pain Mitchell's column caused, Mitchell has, thus far, not done the same and instead, has reprinted the column elsewhere.

PWInsider.com sends our deepest condolences to the Huber family.  

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AEW will pay tribute to Huber on tonight's edition of Dynamite at 8 PM EST on TNT.

Pro Wrestling Tees has announced that CM Punk has donated the proceeds of all of his t-shirts purchased at www.ProWrestlingTees.com/CMPunk for the next month will be donated to the family of Jon Huber:

 

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