Black Bart, well known as Richard Harris to wrestling fans, passed away.
He was seventy-six.
The announcement was made a few days after his family posted on his Facebook page that he had entered hospice care and stopped receiving chemotherapy in his fight against cancer.
A message on his Facebook page on Thursday said, “You may know him as Black Bart, but to me he was my husband Ricky.”He departed from us this morning. This morning at 5:26, he was declared. He is at peace now.
On January 4, his condition was first disclosed by his family.
Although I had not yet made a statement, I made the decision to inform his family that he is on hospice care, as stated in the post on his Facebook page. We are grateful for the prayers and hope they will continue, however as I previously stated, he is no longer receiving chemotherapy, and his illness was found to be stage 4 in 2022.
He revealed his Stage 4 colon cancer diagnosis to his followers for the first time in 2023.
Beginning his wrestling career in 1975, the 6-foot-4, 350-pound native of Arkansas worked for numerous promotions.
Harris played Black Bart in the WWE for a brief period of time, from 1990 to 1991. In 1991, he also worked for WCW, and he kept wrestling until 2002 after leaving that organization.