Christian’s Injury, Henry Godwin Improves, Billy Graham Out of Hospital, CM Punk DVD
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- The official diagnosis of Christian’s injury is a severe high ankle sprain, that will require at least a week or two off. This means he has been pulled from the Survivor Series PPV, where he was scheduled for the “Team Orton vs. Team Barrett” match.
- Former WWE star Mark “Henry Godwin” Canterbury is stable and has made a slight improvement following a car crash last week. He suffered two punctured lungs, thirteen broken ribs and a broken leg.
The incident happened in Lindside, West Virginia when his car came off a cliff.
- WWE Hall of Famer “Superstar” Billy Graham is now out of hospital after fighting a bout of pneumonia for several days. He is still on strong antibiotics.
- WWE are currently working on a CM Punk DVD set, scheduled for first quarter 2012 release. It will be the usual format with a documentary and series of memorable matches.
Edge’s Condition, Butcher Responds To Graham, Melina Did Wrestler’s Court, Hall Back Home
- Edge’s official diagnosis is spinal stenosis, an abnormal narrowing of the spinal column. It is a common genetic problem among the elderly, most often those with a tall frame like Edge. His wrestling career and previous injuries have sped up the problem, much like it did with Steve Austin.
If Edge were to take a bad bump his chances of paralysis are far greater than those without the condition, thus the decision was made to retire.
It’s not something that gets better, so unfortunately no amount of healing will allow him to return.
This doesn’t mean he won’t show up every now on then for a light brawl.
- WWE Hall of Famer and hardcore pioneer Abdullah The Butcher recently responded to “Superstar” Billy Graham’s claims that he shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame. Abby told The Ottawa Sun:
“I helped Superstar Billy Graham when he was in Calgary. I loaned him money. For him to say I shouldn’t be in the Hall of Fame is wrong. I still think he’s a nice guy, but he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. What shouldn’t I be in the Hall. They put Drew Carey in. What’s wrong with me? I drew money all over the world?”
Of course the reason why Billy Graham disputed Abdullah’s right to be in the Hall of Fame is because of accusations that he was infecting wrestlers with Hepatitis C through sharing a blade and/or cutting wrestlers without their knowledge.
These claims have not been verified and the Butcher has not addressed them directly. He appears to be skirting around the issue.
The claims are dealt with in a new documentary entitled “Don’t Bleed on Me”. The official summary reads:
In December 2005, a physical evaluation deemed Devon Nicholson to be a healthy, muscular, experienced professional wrestler on the cusp of achieving his dream of signing a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment. In 2009, Nicholson obtained that contract, only to have it rescinded on the grounds of him having Hepatitis C.
In between those two periods of time, Nicholson was involved in a series of wrestling matches with a “legend” of the hardcore, blood-letting style, Abdullah the Butcher; real name Larry Shreve. Upon further investigation into the cause of his Hepatitis C diagnosis and upon reviewing the footage of his matches with Abdullah The Butcher, he became aware of certain practices that Abdullah used in one of his matches against him. In the match, Nicholson claims that Shreve used a razor blade on himself repeatedly (the standard method for wrestlers to bleed during a match), but Shreve would also use the same blade on Nicholson, without his consent or prior knowledge, allowing both wrestlers to bleed excessively and have their blood “co-mingle”. Much like two junkies that share a needle, this practice is a dangerous one, due to the risk of spreading disease.
Some may remember a backstage incident involving The Undertaker and Bob Orton. Orton had been allowed to blade during a storyline with Taker in 2005, despite having hepatitis as a teenager. Taker was feuding with Randy at the time.
Sean Waltman was recently diagnosed with the disease and it has been suggested that Desmond Wolfe has been kept off TNA because he also has hepatitis.
- Melina reportedly attended Undertaker’s wrestler’s court in 2006, an unofficial and old school practice where the locker room leader sorts out situations, in order to address her backstage attitude and unscrupulous behavior.
This has emerged during the ongoing saga surrounding Morrison and Melina getting upset that Trish took her place at Wrestlemania.
There is a lot of negative information coming out about Melina’s character.
- Scott Hall has been released from Hospital, but his ex-wife didn’t rejoice. She told Mike Mooneyham of The Post and Courier that Hall, has little contact with their children—16-year-old daughter Cassidy and 19-year-old son Cody.
“He hasn’t seen Cassidy since August 2010,” Dana said. “I don’t think he has seen Cody in almost two years. They may have had one or two brief phone calls since then, but nothing that I know of.”
“He calls inconsistently and texts him, and Cody doesn’t respond… They hold it in. They hate to talk about it, but they accept that they don’t have a father or a normal life. The last time I talked to him face to face was when I took Cassidy to the hospital to tell him goodbye last August. It was a horrible scene. He had been doing crack cocaine for days and had used all the money in the account he wrote the child support check on and it had bounced.
“I have cut off his contact with me and the kids, and ignore his calls, texts and messages to me, which are 99 percent negative and nasty when he is drunk. At this point, he can have no contact with us unless I know his intentions. Actions speak louder than words.”
Hall In Hospital, Arquette Talks WCW, Vicious In Movie With TNA stars, Graham Shoots On Y2J
- Press Release:
Recent rumors regarding wrestler Scott Hall following a drug overdose were denied by Scott Hall’s rep Geena Jinev Anac of Lightening Entertainment. “I just spoke to Scott, he is at home, doing fine in Orlando FL.
“Late last night Scott was at the hospital due to extremely low blood pressure & his doctor changed his blood pressure medication. Scott never overdosed last night, he is still recovering from last summer’s double pneumonia & is being treated for heart. Scott regularly visits the hospital for blood work & checkups.”
“All these rumors on the media are completely untrue & fabricated. “Scott is thankful to all his fans for their continuous support through thick and thin and looking forward in his future appearances throughout the states.”
- In a recent ESPN interview David Arquette remembered his time as the WCW champ:
“It was surreal,” he said. “To be able to be a part of that world and be a fly on the wall and see the workings of the circus, it was a dream come true. I know people joke about the guy from Hollywood winning the title, but I have nothing but respect for wrestlers. I got a chance to live in their world. It was an opportunity be play cops and robbers as grownups.”
- Kurt Angle’s latest movie Death From Above also features Sid Vicious and James Storm. Here’s the summary:
An ancient Druid demon has returned to claim his prize… to reign over the world through one thousand years of darkness. The last time Druid demon Thule (Kurt Angle) walked the earth was during the Dark Ages. Now, after one thousand years, he has returned from beyond to assemble his pagan monk worshippers and to wreak havoc on the natural world. Gunnar Halgrim (TNA Wrestling’s James Storm), an ordinary blue-collar steelworker, is plagued by disturbing nightmares and discovers through a clairvoyant gypsy that his ancestral bloodline and a family heirloom place him in danger of Thule’s evil dark path. As the drama mounts, Thule’s twisted and escalating rampage of death and destruction will soon collide with this small town to square off against over zealous Sheriff Raynick (Tom Savini). But one man stands between him and his Ultimate Reign: Herzog (Psycho Sid Vicious). The two forces face off in a battle of Good vs. Evil in this low budget thriller. Will Thule reign once again over the world into one thousand years of darkness?
- Superstar Billy Graham shoots on Chris Jericho:
