Originally published on ProWrestlingSheet.

It's been just over four months since former WWE and ECW wrestler Balls Mahoney passed away ... and his cause of death has finally been revealed.

According to Asbury Park Press, a spokesman for the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office in New Jersey says Mahoney died of hypertensive and atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

In layman's terms, he died of a heart attack due to natural causes.

Mahoney died April 12th-- one day after turning 44 -- and his wife Gayle told us the wrestler passed away at home while watching Jeopardy.

His unexpected death impacted both fans and fellow wrestlers alike. Check out the group of ECW legends who honored Mahoney the week of his death in the video below.