Former WWE Superstar & the co-founder of the Concussion Legacy Foundation Chris Nowinski was interviewed by Fox Sports about Daniel Bryan & overall concussions in WWE.
Nowinski’s career in WWE was just starting to gain momentum when a series of severe concussion forced him into earlier retirement. In the article, we find out that WWE made a 1.2 million dollar donation to the Concussion Legacy Foundation & that Triple H is a member of their Board of Directors.
You can read the entire story with more comments and facts on Nowinski at this link.
His feelings on Daniel Bryan retiring from WWE:
“I felt extraordinary sympathy for Daniel. It’s tough to walk away when you feel like you could still perform. In a sense, I was lucky because I had headaches I couldn’t kick and other problems that told me I shouldn’t go out and do (wrestling) again. He didn’t have that. He had to really dig deep to find the justification to walk away from the job he loved.
It has been very interesting to watch the process. I’ve read that he was upset about WWE’s decision, but he saw other doctors and WWE really encouraged him to find another path because they recognized his brain was injured too much.”
His take on how WWE now handles concussions:
“Superstars are more likely to report concussions. That’s big. Wrestling also has an advantage over sports in general because you can write wrestlers out of storylines or have them participate without physical exertion when they are recovering from concussions.”
You can read more on the Concussion Legacy Foundation on their official website: http://concussionfoundation.org/