Matt Cappotelli, WWE Star and ‘Tough Enough’ Winner, Dies at 38

[Mr. Gregory]

WWE star and winner of “Tough Enough III” Matt Cappotelli has died after a yearlong battle with a malignant brain tumor. He was 38.

Cappotelli’s wife Lindsay shared the news in a Facebook post to a group dedicated to Cappotelli.

“Today my love — my strong, sweet, beautiful love — took his last breath at 3:30 a.m. and went Home to be with Jesus…exactly one year after his brain surgery,” she wrote. “You think you can be prepared for this when you know it’s coming, but you just can’t. The only person whose comfort I want right now is the one who can’t give it to me."

I remember that name. He and John Hennigan (Johnny Nitro/John Morrison) won one of the editions of Tough Enough in the early 2000s. He apparently wrestled in OVW (Ohio Valley Wrestling, WWE's former developmental territory) for a while and was the heavyweight champion there at one point.

He was so young.

https://variety.com/2018/tv/news/matt-cappotelli-dead-dies-wwe-star-tough-enough-winner-1202862762/