On April 26th 2025 Sir Samurai wrestled a main event match at Pinole Public Library. He came to a makeshift locker room and collapsed. Littell spoke to KCRA 3 in Sacramento and said, “We finished the match, and everything seemed fine, all things considered......Apparently, my heart stopped, and I hit the floor. Medically speaking, I was dead. Every nurse and doctor told me the same thing: ‘You died on Saturday.’”
Thankfully fellow wrestler Alex Bell — who is a trained EMT jumped into action. Alex said, “I started chest compressions and told someone to grab an AED. The ambulance was already en route. Honestly, my first thought was, ‘This isn’t going to work.’ I’ve done CPR a lot, and it’s never worked before.”
Littell revealed he was clinically dead for three to four minutes. He admits, “I didn’t see a light or anything, but I felt like I was being pulled back before I woke up. The survival rate for something like this is something like 0.00001%. I shouldn’t have made it — and the fact that I came back with no brain damage, fully functioning… no one can explain it.”
Doctors haven’t identified the cause of Littell's cardiac arrest, but a safeguard, a defibrillator has been implanted in his chest. One month later, Littell returned to the ring, but not to wrestle, but to announce his retirement from wrestling.
We here at Classic Cinema+ Wrestling News Hub wish Josh Littell the best in his retirement!
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