Cody Rhodes and Allie (The Bunny) have posted their tributes to Andy Williams, The Butcher. The Butcher died over the weekend following a tag team match with this long-time partner, The Blade, Allie’s husband.
Rhodes remembered a moment he had with the big man in speaking to Outkick, Fox Sports.
“Him and Blade (also known as Pepper Parks) and Bunny, we had recruited them to do this really fun debut. He came up under the ring and they beat me up and I definitely didn’t get to spend near enough time with him as a person but all the things you’re hearing about him in terms of how warm and charismatic and interesting, not a guy that needed the gig, he had another gig and super cultured and intelligent. The Butcher, you see this big, just the mustache and the tattoos and the muscles, maybe if you had judged that book by its cover you wouldn’t know how truly special, intelligent, artistic, and beautiful of a person that he was,” said Rhodes.
Rhodes said he was thinking of his family and friends.
“I didn’t get to be around him near enough but I’m really glad I was part of bringing him into that moment and I wish everyone around him thinking about them, wish them the best. They’re very much in my heart today. I told Brandi about that this morning and just such a shock, so young. Beautiful person and he leaves behind multiple locker rooms of people that he touched, that all of them 100% have a good memory and a good story about him,” he said.
Allie, The Butcher’s manager for a time and a close friend also remembered him with a brief message in Instagram:
“I keep trying to string the perfect words together but I just can’t find them. I hate to say goodbye. BBB forever ❤️🩹”
