Brain cancer claims star

FORMER WWE star Matt Cappotelli (pctured) died on Friday after a battle with cancer, his wife announced. He was 38.

Lindsay Cappotelli made the announcement on Facebook noting her husband died “exactly one year after his brain surgery.”

“Today my love – my strong, sweet, beautiful love – took his last breath at 3.30am and went Home to be with Jesus exactly one year after his brain surgery,” she wrote.

“You think you can be prepared for this when you know it’s coming, but you just can’t. The only person whose comfort I want right now is the one who can’t give it to me. I miss him so much. I know where he is now is so much better, but it doesn’t change how much I miss him,” she said.

Lindsay Cappotelli wrote in a blog entry that her husband underwent the surgery to remove the tumour but doctors found he had glioblastoma.

It is an aggressive type of cancer that can occur in the brain or spinal cord.

The WWE also announced Cappotelli’s passing.

“WWE is saddened to learn that Matt Cappotelli, a promising Superstar who was a cowinner of WWE Tough Enough III, passed away Friday at age 38,” the WWE tweeted.