10 Wrestlers Who Have Been "Killed" In 2020
9. AJ Styles - Buried Alive
AJ Styles is dead.
What other possible consequence can there be to losing a Bone Yard match? How do you think the yard is full of all those bones? Do you think their former owners simply died of natural causes? Do you think they wandered in there, just about clinging to the last threads of life, and then quietly expired? No, they were killed, by The Undertaker.
And so was AJ Styles. No sooner did he think that, actually, he was the one who'd done the killing, did the Phenom appear in a flash of blinding light and TV teleportation tropes to stick him in a big six foot hole. Not a fatal distance to fall by any stretch of the imagination, but an entire tractor's worth of soil deposited on top of him would have ensured a crushing, gasping death.
You see, the whole concept (and indeed the naming convention) of being "buried alive" is that the adjective isn't there to be reassuring. You're being buried alive, because that's absolutely not how they're going to find you. Whether that's because of asphyxiation, dehydration, starvation, or (in cold climates) hypothermia, is really down to the upkeep of whatever Boneyard you happen to find yourself in.
Current Status: Dead For One Month But Now Back On TV.