Overview
- Book Pro Wrestlers’ Steve Stasiak announced Horne’s death late Sunday, with confirmations and tributes from peers including Leilani Kai.
- Family accounts report he died at a Texas hospital after a prolonged hospitalization that included septic shock, pneumonia, and a severe blood infection.
- Horne rose to prominence in the mid-1990s as one half of Men on a Mission with Mabel, briefly capturing the WWF Tag Team Championship during a 1994 U.K. tour.
- After leaving WWE, he remained active on the independent scene as a performer, trainer, and promoter, notably with SOAR Championship Wrestling in Dallas.
- Recent coverage notes a 2018 transplant and a serious 2022 COVID-19 ICU stay, though reports differ on whether the transplant was a kidney or a liver, and wrestlers such as Mark Henry and Adam Pearce shared public remembrances.