{"id":634407,"date":"2026-03-20T23:39:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634407\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:39:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:39:47","slug":"walker-texas-ranger-star-chuck-norris-dies-at-86","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/634407\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Walker Texas Ranger\u2019 Star Chuck Norris Dies at 86"},"content":{"rendered":"<p aria-live=\"assertive\" class=\"css-1dv1kvn\">new video loaded: \u2018Walker Texas Ranger\u2019 Star Chuck Norris Dies at 86<\/p>\n<p>transcript<\/p>\n<p>Back<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1nng8z9\">transcript<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Walker Texas Ranger\u2019 Star Chuck Norris Dies at 86The family of Chuck Norris announced that the action movie star died on Thursday after he had been hospitalized for a medical emergency earlier that day. Norris was known for his martial arts skills and his role in the CBS television series, \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger.\u201d He was 86.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">\u201cYou know, getting a chance to work with friends I\u2019ve known for over 30 years \u2014 Arnold, Sly, and Van Damme and Bruce Willis. I said this would probably be the only time I\u2019d ever get to work with all of them at one time. So that\u2019s why I did it.\u201d \u201cI want to introduce you to the Secretary of Defense, Chuck Norris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A close-up studio portrait of him wearing a black cowboy hat and black jacket with a sheriff\u2019s badge on his chest. He has reddish-brown hair and a close-cropped beard.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20Norris--zkcf-threeByTwoMediumAt2X.jpg\" data-testid=\"betamax-poster\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"_poster_13tnt_20\"\/>The family of Chuck Norris announced that the action movie star died on Thursday after he had been hospitalized for a medical emergency earlier that day. Norris was known for his martial arts skills and his role in the CBS television series, \u201cWalker, Texas Ranger.\u201d He was 86.<\/p>\n<p>By Meg Felling<\/p>\n<p>March 20, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"new video loaded: \u2018Walker Texas Ranger\u2019 Star Chuck Norris Dies at 86 transcript Back transcript \u2018Walker Texas Ranger\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2393],"tags":[44703,5,59351,81312,81313,4,17404,3823,149,1567,69,3240],"class_list":["post-634407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas-rangers","tag-actor","tag-baseball","tag-chuck-norris","tag-emergency-medicine","tag-medical-device","tag-mlb","tag-movies","tag-obituary","tag-rangers","tag-texas","tag-texas-rangers","tag-texasrangers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116264151002730626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}