[CaptainCrunch]

I still remember watching that Miz documentary where he got knocked out in a match and finished with a concussion and was backstage asking people what happened in his match because he couldn't remember.

Or Mankind asking Undertaker if he'd used the thumbtacks in hell in a cell.

The fact that wrestling companies are still to this day not stopping matches after severe head blows is shocking.

When Alexa Bliss got concussed by Rhonda for the second time, you could see it.

There was video of a match in AEW not that long ago, where a guy was knocked out and not kayfabe knocked out and the match continued with the workers working around the wrestler.

Or when Liv Morgan took a kick to the face from Brie Bella and you could see that she was messed up, and they dragged her to the corner and then rolled her out of the ring.

When are these companies large and small going to reconcile that this isn't cool allowing a clearly dazed worker to keep going. It pisses me off to no end because of my own history of concussions in sport, that have left me somewhat messed up.

The wrecklessness is what stops me from watching AEW at times, and certainly WWE even though it seems to happen less there.

There was a quote by Paul E a bunch of years back in a rare moment of retrospective thought where he said that the more the workers do that's dangerous the more the fans will want because at the end of the day, the fans don't care if a wrestler hurts or kills himself in the ring. But Paul E was the architect of letting wrestlers go way beyond their abilities and capabilities in the ring for a buck.

When a wrestler is dropped on his head, or is clearly dazed or out of it, stop the f'ng match and check on him properly. When a wrestler says, hey on this Friday night TV show I want to put someone through 5 flaming tables made out of glass using a reverse dragon pile driver because the fans will pop tell him hell F'n no. If a wrestler says, I want to try and do a pile driver that I've never done before, hell no, and if you go rogue and do it don't bother coming to the back.


Part of the fix is again strong agents, strong rules from the top. Part of it is how you train the refs. Part of it is how your working partner in the ring is trained, and how the individual wrestler is trained.