Independent wrestling veteran Josh Littell — better known to fans as Sir Samurai — died after a match at a public library two months ago. The terrifying incident happened after Littell’s April 26 match at the Pinole Public Library in California. Speaking with KCRA 3 NBC, the Sacramento-based wrestler recalled, “We were the main event. We wrestled the match, and it was fine all things considered.” But after the show ended, things took a turn. Littell collapsed in the makeshift locker room.

>“Evidently, my heart stopped, and I fell to the floor,” he explained. “Officially, I was dead. No nurse or doctor said anything different than: ‘You died on Saturday.’”

That’s when fellow wrestler Alex Bell sprang into action. Not only was Bell present at the show — he’s also a trained EMT.

>“I started compressions, asked someone around me to get an AED,” Bell said. “The ambulance was already on the way. My first thought was really, ‘this isn’t going to work.’ I’ve done CPR many times before, and it has never worked before.”

>Littell described an eerie experience. “I didn’t see a light or anything, but I had a sensation of being pulled back before I woke up,” he said. “The percentage of people just to survive is .00001%, so I shouldn’t have survived anyway — but the fact that I survived and my brain and body are still working, nobody understands how that happened.”