Former AAA World Cruiserweight Champion Broderick Shepard Passes Away

Broderick Shepard, who performed as Australian Suicide and was a former AAA World Cruiserweight Champion, has passed away. Luchablog reports that Shepard, who had a 16-year career that included a couple of appearances each in AEW and GCW, has passed. Circumstances around his passing have not yet been revealed. He was 32 years old.

Shepard is best known for his run in AAA that ran from 2013 through 2020. His run with the promotion included a 211 day reign with the AAA World Cruiserweight Championship from January to August of 2018. He was known for teaming with stars like Angelico and Jack Evans and initially worked under a mask as Australian Suicide. He would lose the mask during a feud with Daga in 2016.

Shepard joined Lucha Underground at the end of its run as Hexagon Black but only worked the final show before the promotion shut down. He left AAA in 2020 when the pandemic arrived and moved to Puerto Rico with his wife, former AAA star Vanilla Vargas. During this era he would two matches for AEW Dark as El Australiano and wrestled some matches in Puerto Rico.

When Shepared got some visa issues worked out, he returned to Mexico to compete in 2024 and had an appearance in AAA in May of that year, challenging for the AAA Latin American Championship. He worked mostly on the independent Mexican scene, and his final match was for Desastre Total Ultraviolento in November of last year, losing a three-way bout along with Blade to Soberbia.

On behalf of 411, our condolences to the family, friends and fans of Mr. Shepard.