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re: WWE seeking to block concussion related lawsuits
Posted on 7/1/15 at 5:20 pm to HogX
Posted on 7/1/15 at 5:20 pm to HogX
People under-estimate the pounding they take. The ring is not soft or cushiony. It is a steel frame with wooden planks covered by a mat and a canvas. I've seen rings being set-up and taken down and I've been in a ring. It is not springy or bouncy.
Getting body slammed on the ring is akin to being tackled in football without a helmet or any padding. Getting thrown around leaves your head vulnerable to being smacked or bounced on the mat.
Getting body slammed on the ring is akin to being tackled in football without a helmet or any padding. Getting thrown around leaves your head vulnerable to being smacked or bounced on the mat.
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Posted on 7/1/15 at 6:30 pm to Ralph_Wiggum
No offseason and 300+days on the road.
Posted on 7/1/15 at 6:36 pm to HogX
I remember reading Mick Foley's book where he went to the spinal surgeon due to back pain. He was looking at an MRI of his spine and asked what was wrong with one particular disc that was different from the rest. The surgeon replied that the level he was asking about was normal, the rest were the problem. 
Posted on 7/1/15 at 6:54 pm to St Augustine
Mick took some great bumps. The wrestling he did in japan was something else.
Posted on 7/1/15 at 8:11 pm to Jim Rockford
Problem WWE has with many of these lawsuits is that the wrestlers filing these claims worked for WWE maybe 5 years at most in a 20 year career.
Hard to blame WWE when the majority of their work was done elsewhere.
With that said wrestling is a lot more physical than many people think. Definitely not "fake"
Hard to blame WWE when the majority of their work was done elsewhere.
With that said wrestling is a lot more physical than many people think. Definitely not "fake"
Posted on 7/2/15 at 1:36 am to pioneerbasketball
quote:
Mick took some great bumps.
And he's paying for it now. Dude can't even tie his own shoes. I wonder how many concussions he got from getting blasted in the head with a chair a dozen times by The Rock during their 99 RR match.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 1:38 am to Korin
That match was brutal almost hard to watch at times. Crazy what wrestlers used to do.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 1:40 am to Jim Rockford
Mickey Foley King of the Ring 1998...
my God... he's broken in half!!!!!
That killed him!!!!!!
my God... he's broken in half!!!!!
That killed him!!!!!!
Posted on 7/2/15 at 1:45 am to LooseCannon22282
Posted on 7/2/15 at 3:14 am to MThawg
quote:
That match was brutal almost hard to watch at times. Crazy what wrestlers used to do.
Thing with Foley is as bad as that match looked he did far worse stuff in Japan.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 4:04 am to ForkEmDemons
The stuff in Japan had nothing to do with head trauma though.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 4:07 am to MThawg
quote:
That match was brutal almost hard to watch at times. Crazy what wrestlers used to do.
Remember when Chyna's dumbass slammed the cage door (the old blue bar one, not the sissy fenced one they use now) on his head?
Posted on 7/2/15 at 4:14 am to Korin
Exactly the head trauma was insane in that match.
Yes I remember that. The notoriously hard as hell blue cage.
Yes I remember that. The notoriously hard as hell blue cage.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 5:56 am to Korin
quote:
The stuff in Japan had nothing to do with head trauma though.
Honest question, but have you ever seen any of his Japanese work?
He took a ton of unprotected head shots in Japan not to mention taking risky bumps everywhere he worked. Mick Foley's health these days is a culmination of everywhere he worked, not just WWE.
To say his Japanese work has nothing to do with head trauma is simply absurd.
Cactus in Japan:
Posted on 7/2/15 at 1:05 pm to ForkEmDemons
None of that has anything to do with head trauma. I don't remember him mentioning taking any chair shots to the head in Japan in his first 2 books. Lots of bleeding (and his right arm getting badly burned during the 95 King of the Deathmatch tournament), but no head trauma.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 3:00 pm to ForkEmDemons
quote:Yeah but WWE owns all those promotions now, and therefore, their liability. If you have an ax to grind with WCW, for example, talk to Vince.
Problem WWE has with many of these lawsuits is that the wrestlers filing these claims worked for WWE maybe 5 years at most in a 20 year career.
Posted on 7/2/15 at 3:40 pm to ballscaster
Y'all should read up on another former wrestler by the name of Billy Jack Haynes suing WWE (who barely spent time there in the 80s). He's legitimately insane and thinks that Vince murdered the Benoits and framed Chris because Daniel was his lovechild with Nancy.
This post was edited on 7/2/15 at 3:41 pm
Posted on 7/2/15 at 5:32 pm to Golfer
Concussions happen a lot in scripted entertainment
Don't be an idiot thinking there are no injuries just bc the result is predetermined
Don't be an idiot thinking there are no injuries just bc the result is predetermined
Posted on 7/2/15 at 5:34 pm to Golfer
Are you this dumb?
Steel chair shots as well as taking a number of suplexes can cause concussions for starters.
It isn't "fake" it's predetermined
Steel chair shots as well as taking a number of suplexes can cause concussions for starters.
It isn't "fake" it's predetermined
Posted on 7/2/15 at 5:34 pm to genro
Chris Benoit is a poster boy for CTE.
This post was edited on 7/2/15 at 5:35 pm
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