The Tragic Death of Dick The Bruiser, His ex-wife Finally Reveals...

They say he was murdered. That headline has been floating around the internet for years, attached to grainy photos and dramatic thumbnails designed to make you believe there is a hidden confession buried somewhere, a scorned ex-wife who finally cracked open the truth about what really happened to Dick the Bruiser. It sounds like a murder mystery. It is built to sound like one. But here is the real problem with that story. There was no ex-wife. There was no murder. And the actual truth, if you are willing to sit with it, is far darker and far messier than any conspiracy headline could ever be. His name was William Fritz Afflis Jr. Born on June 27, 1929, in Delphi, Indiana. He played college football at Purdue University and the University of Nevada, Reno, and while at Nevada he also worked as a bouncer at a local nightclub. That detail matters. He was not just an athlete. He genuinely enjoyed the violence, and he was very good at it.