Mexico City, Mar 21 (EFE).- Mexican wrestler Pedro “Perro” Aguayo Jr. died Saturday of injuries from a kick by his opponent during a match in the city of Tijuana, officials of the sport known as “lucha libre,” or freestyle wrestling, reported.

Aguayo, 35, son of the legendary wrestler, the late Perro Aguayo, was knocked unconscious onto the ropes by a flying kick from his opponent Rey Misterio.

A video doing the rounds on social networks shows that after taking the kick, the fighter was left hanging on the second rope while the round continued.

As a morbid few from the crowd took photos of the unconscious wrestler, action in the ring continued with other fighters, and the only attention given Perro Jr. for almost two minutes came from a friend who moved him, spoke to him and tried unsuccessfully to revive him.

The arena had no emergency medical services and some minutes passed before a motionless Aguayo was moved to a stretcher, while staff at the sports facility shouted for an ambulance.

There was no way to revive him, and the hospital where he was eventually taken declared him dead of cranioencephalic trauma.

The Triple AAA company confirmed the death of the fighter over social networks, where it said that “once more the pain lies heavy on our hearts. Rest in peace, son of Perro Aguayo.”

Aguayo, born in 1989, as a wrestler took the first name of his father, the historic Perro Aguayo, and rolled out a 20-year career in the Mexico’s lucha libre rings.

Considered one of the most popular sports due to the number of fans that pack the arenas, lucha libre has had other fatel accidents in the ring, such as the death from a chokehold of the wrestler Oro in 1993. EFE