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The hits keep coming following this blog’s appropriately skeptical coverage of WWE’s official explanation of the life-threatening brain aneurysm – excuse me, burst capillary – sustained last week by Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat.
The latest is from Mike Aldren of Wrestling Globe Newsletter:
Backstage talk at the tapings this week was that although the company line is that Steamboat’s bleeding on the brain had nothing to do with the TV angle on 6/28 — and it may well not do — they probably won’t be doing any beat downs on legends ever again. WWE people noted to us that this has been said a few times before, dating back over a decade, when Bubba Ray Dudley powerbombed a then 77-year-old Mae Young from the stage through a table during an episode of Raw at the Meadowlands.
Irv Muchnick