With all of the injuries

[Guest The Tino Standard]

I find it ironic that since they've banned the piledriver, Austin, Lita, Benoit, Edge, Rhyno, Hardcore Holly, and Angle (did I miss anyone) have ALL needed major neck surgery.

 

And another thing, I know this is getting into an area that nobody probably wants to touch, but keep in mind, doctors are in a money-making profession. I have yet to hear about one guy that has gone to Dr. Lloyd Youngblood that HASN'T had to get the most extensive surgery possible.

 

I'm just saying...

[Guest Downhome]

i say the ptc hired gypsys to curse the wwe

Naw, it's Michael Jackson is praticing voodoo once again damnit!

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

I doubt the doctors are injecting the wrestlers with needles making parts of their bodies go numb.

[Guest Steviekick]

It will catch up to RVD. They always do.

 

And if they don't, then RVD is superman...and may god have mercy on us all... cause Superman gets high...er than a tall building in a single bound...

RVD is big into stretching and proper stretching is important. Increased flexibility really does help prevent serious injuries. That's the only realistic way he can avoid injuries.

 

Either that or he's invincible. That would mean he's the sculpture made of clay. \m/

[Guest treble charged]

RVD did break his leg in early 2000 (or late '99), which caused him to vacate the ECW TV title, so it's not like he's been completely injury free his whole career.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Maybe that's why RVD get's high. To numb the pain his body is in.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

I don't think there is any realistic way to avoid getting hurt when you get dropped directly on your neck with all of your body weight coming ontop of it.

 

So if RVD remains injury-free for the rest of his career... then he is superman.

[Guest Steviekick]

RVD did break his leg in early 2000 (or late '99), which caused him to vacate the ECW TV title, so it's not like he's been completely injury free his whole career.

Yeah, but that was froma jet-ski accident that messed him up, as well as his wife pretty badly.

[Guest TheGame2705]

He also wore those marital arts boots with no kickpads to keep his ankle in place. It's odd though how all of a sudden everyone needs this year long surgery now.

[Guest treble charged]

RVD did break his leg in early 2000 (or late '99), which caused him to vacate the ECW TV title, so it's not like he's been completely injury free his whole career.

Yeah, but that was froma jet-ski accident that messed him up, as well as his wife pretty badly.

Van Dam hurt himself in the ring, but his wife was hurt in the jet-ski accident a few months earlier.

[Guest red_file]

I find it ironic that since they've banned the piledriver, Austin, Lita, Benoit, Edge, Rhyno, Hardcore Holly, and Angle (did I miss anyone) have ALL needed major neck surgery.

Wasn't the piledriver was banned after Owen broke Austin's neck with a botched inverted tombstone? Or was it after he came back?

 

But beyond on that, there's really no consistency to the neck injuries. You've got two that are wear and tear related (Benoit and Edge), one was a freak accident on the set of a t.v. show (Lita), one was a botched powerbomb (Holly), one was a guy whose primary offensive weapon was ramming his head into things and who accidentally hit a turnbuckle (Rhyno), and one had a history of neck problems that would've caught up with him sooner or later (Angle). So it's not as if there's anything specifically that the wrestlers are doing that's causing people to injure their necks.

[Guest RavishingRickRudo]

Have you ever been dropped on your head/neck before?

[Guest ViciousFish]

I got powerbombed hard on the back of my neck when one of my friends thought it would be funny to pick me up like that. Hurt like a bastard......but i think my being 130 lbs and scrawny saved my ass.

[Guest Luke Cage]

With all of these injuries of the stars of the WWE starting to happen just about every week now, who is to blame for this?

Short attention spans.

[Guest Zero_Cool]

Blame the referees for {Vince}NOT GETTING CONTROL IN THERE!!!{/Vince}

 

Honestly, though..it's a mix of WWE Style and the MTV Generation, if you ask me...I think short attention spans do have soemthing to do with it.

[Guest Brian]

Lots of German suplexes. That's a good start. When you're giving and taking some twenty or so of those a week it's not going to do any good. It's really a fault of the WWE style for putting such a high emphasis on spots like these; and whomever wasn't giving the wrestlers time off during TV tapings to heal up and sending them out for PPV length matches. TLC matches and various "hardcore" elements. Wear and tear in some conditions.

[Guest Super Pissed Smark]

Blame the writers. If the wrestlers had compelling storylines which led to heated feuds which led to important matches then they could pop the audience without having to damn near kill themselves.

[Guest The Mighty Damaramu]

The piledriver was banned after HHH couldn't remember the last 3 minutes of the Iron Man match AT ALL. Vince thought it was from the Undertaker's tombstone. But a lot of people said it was actually from Rock pedigreeing HHH on the table. BAN THE PEDIGREE! No not really.....that move actually rules.

And I just don't think the wrestlers are trained as well these days. They don't have the proper conditioning. They don't know what they're doing in there.

[Guest Brian]

But that's short sighted because the majority of people who get injured either know what they are doing or are in there all the time with people who know what they are doing.

[Guest Trivia247]

What the most dramatically Funny part of this

is that its not some Intricate Japanese Stiff Head dropping moves, or some Old time wrestling moves like emerald Fusions or Death Valley drivers, or Fisherman Busters or Piledrivers

 

that have been injurying people..

 

 

Alot of these people are just Clumsy. HHH and Kevin Nash and Maven Slipped fell and broke something.

 

Bradshaw and Kane each Clotheslined someone too hard and got Matching Bicep injuries...

 

Batistia and Orton probably got hurt due to Conditioning

 

but it didn't come from a Orange crush

or a Liger bomb, or a Tombstone.

[Guest The_Radical]

Because there are so many performers working so frequently now, more injuries are a given. Unfortunately, the majority of these injuries seem to be major ones (i.e. Angle, Edge, Rhyno). Orton should be back in 2 months which is at least positive news if not great news. Blaming McMahon for making guys like Edge and Angle carry the company on their backs is not the right way to go either. The fact of the matter is this, WWE is an overexposed product right now. They have four TV programs a week featuring a majority of their stars. They run house shows as well, also featuring many of these stars. The fact that a wrestler, in a given week, may have to work 3 shows is not a big deal anymore, it's just part of business.

 

Back in the 1980's, there was generally only one television show a week, which was taped prior to it's screening. There were the occasional Saturday Night's Main Event's and Clash Of The Champions events, but they weren't even a monthly thing. House shows were still prevalent, yet the same workers did not do every show. Due to the decreased time in the ring, the chances for wrestlers to become injured was greatly lowered. Indeed, I cannot recall any significant wrestling injuries from the 1980's save for "worked" ones.

 

I agree that today's spot-oriented style of wrestling does lead to a potential for more injuries, but that's just part of the evolution of the business. Jeff Hardy blows spots all the time, but he never ends up with a severe neck injury. The same holds true for a guy like Kid Kash in NWA:TNA, who is lucky to be alive after his X-Title win a few weeks ago but also suffered no serious injury.

 

The more they wrestle, the better the chance for the injuries to happen, and they certainly wrestle a lot more now than they ever did before.