He died of fright his heart gave out when he saw hogan backstage and knew the hulkster and those 24” pythons were still ready to go, brother. When he walked by hogan backstage on his way to the ring hogan said “you wanna do it” and that sent Jimetty into a sweating panic as evidenced by his speech that night. Jim knew deep down in his heart that he was shook and there ain’t no such thing as halfway crooks and at that moment he was a halfway crook. His existence by definition was a contradiction and his heart imploded as a result of the cognitive dissonance