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cliche, but a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Also, we knew footage would surface eventually. You don't actually see the collapse, but you do see what happened shortly after it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sbva1XHEUA

If you watch Raw carefully, you see him slumped over the announce table, like he's just fallen asleep. I noticed when I was looking to see why Jerry Lawler was snoring.

 

I read that they fear he may suffer some brain damage because of this. Scary.

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cliche, but a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Also, we knew footage would surface eventually. You don't actually see the collapse, but you do see what happened shortly after it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sbva1XHEUA

If you watch Raw carefully, you see him slumped over the announce table, like he's just fallen asleep. I noticed when I was looking to see why Jerry Lawler was snoring.

 

I read that they fear he may suffer some brain damage because of this. Scary.

 

Having just watched that clip I'm sure one of the WWE photographers is standing there taking photos of Jerry Lawler as they're tending to him.

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You're thinking as somebody who's a fan of it though. If you take a step back and look at it from an outside perspective than it's a sixty year old man who wrestled and then had a heart attack. There's quite few questions to be asked there. Namely is it right that the WWE put someone of that age in that position? The result, the heart attack, would suggest to quite a few people that it isn't.

But you're assuming the heart attack was a direct result of him having wrestled a match when surely there is every possibility that heart attack would have happened anyway or at least was waiting to happen? If it's a case that his heart was ready to go at any time and that match speeded things up then he's a very lucky man because as others have said it could have happened hours later in his hotel room and today's discussion would have been much different.

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You're thinking as somebody who's a fan of it though. If you take a step back and look at it from an outside perspective than it's a sixty year old man who wrestled and then had a heart attack. There's quite few questions to be asked there. Namely is it right that the WWE put someone of that age in that position? The result, the heart attack, would suggest to quite a few people that it isn't.

But you're assuming the heart attack was a direct result of him having wrestled a match when surely there is every possibility that heart attack would have happened anyway or at least was waiting to happen? If it's a case that his heart was ready to go at any time and that match speeded things up then he's a very lucky man because as others have said it could have happened hours later in his hotel room and today's discussion would have been much different.

 

Then we've got a sixty two year old man who wrestlers quite a bit (considering outside bookings as well) with an underlying heart condition that nobody knows about. That asks more questions. Should there be regular fitness tests for people of that age? Should there be regular fitness tests for wrestlers full stop? Are there current tests in place? Are they adequate? Of course this could have happened on a night when he didn't wrestle. Of course it happens to people who don't wrestle. That doesn't mean that further questions shouldn't be asked.

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That question was brought up somewhere else today. When Guerrero died they regularly began testing the wrestlers hearts. But commentators aren't tested. And considering Lawler is one of wrestling's only true independent contractors and he only works 5 days a month for them, its possible they've not been checking his heart. I'm sure he's under one of those Vince McMahon deals where he'll wrestle, but he isn't under a talent deal. Meaning they dont piss test him or check his health every five minutes or even bother him when he's away from the company. Which looks bad if you are after someone to hold accountable.

 

I wonder if Linda McMahon's worried how bad Lawler clapping out on live TV will look for her campaign?

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Then we've got a sixty two year old man who wrestlers quite a bit (considering outside bookings as well) with an underlying heart condition that nobody knows about. That asks more questions. Should there be regular fitness tests for people of that age? Should there be regular fitness tests for wrestlers full stop? Are there current tests in place? Are they adequate? Of course this could have happened on a night when he didn't wrestle. Of course it happens to people who don't wrestle. That doesn't mean that further questions shouldn't be asked.

I was wondering about this, how often does he work Memphis shows or any other outside bookings these days?

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Quite a bit. You always see him advertised on bits around the internet. He loves wrestling. He was supposed to be working Sid this weekend, which is now off sadly. Sid probably wasn't planning on showing up anyway to be fair. Velvet Sky said he was on an indy show with her the day before Raw. He's always busy.

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Having been a fan of wwf/e since 92, Jerry's one of the few to always be around, and you hear him talk more than any other wrestler, last few years have seen him play aging hero and put over punk and miz , and have us all on his side. Sadly he's done it soo well it's made it harder to believe its happened, but a man of his age shouldn't be doing what he does.

 

Hope he's back in the chair as soon as he's ready to do so, for all he takes a fair amount of flack at times, he's still better than anyone else wwe have doing colour at this time.

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cliche, but a picture really is worth a thousand words.

Also, we knew footage would surface eventually. You don't actually see the collapse, but you do see what happened shortly after it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sbva1XHEUA

If you watch Raw carefully, you see him slumped over the announce table, like he's just fallen asleep. I noticed when I was looking to see why Jerry Lawler was snoring.

 

I read that they fear he may suffer some brain damage because of this. Scary.

 

Having just watched that clip I'm sure one of the WWE photographers is standing there taking photos of Jerry Lawler as they're tending to him.

 

Yeah and the camermen are all standing there still filming. There are even 2 wrestlers still wrestling after it happens!

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Update from Stacey Carter's Fb

 

I just got an update on Jerry. He had a stint & a balloon put in & is still heavily sedated. He's not out of the woods just yet, but he has gotten and is getting the best care possible

 

It'll be a balloon angioplasty and a drug eluting stent.

 

(I work for a GP surgery).

 

At least he's getting the care he needs.

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My mum suffered a heart attack in June, totally out of the blue. Like Lawler, she's never drunk, smoked or done drugs. She eats healthily. The reason for her heart attack was purely genetics, due to a family history of weak hearts. I don't know what Lawler's family history is like, but if it's anything similar, then there's nothing you can do to stop it happening. You can delay it through healthy living but it'll happen in the end. That's what we were told by the cardiac specialists at the hospital. The only reason she had it later in life (she's 72) than her siblings is because she's female, and the genetics work differently for males and females apparently.

 

Assuming that American doctors work on the same principles as their British counterparts, you only get a stent put into your heart if your 'remaining' arteries are functioning at a capacity of 70% or less. The heart attack is caused by one of the arteries being completely blocked, i.e. at 0% capacity. The stent is a permanent fixture in your heart, a wire mesh that holds the artery open and allows blood to flow freely.

 

The crucial part now is to assess how much damage has been done to the heart following the heart attack. The single most vital factor is the time that it takes to get the patient treated, so Lawler, much like footballer Fabrice Muamba earlier this year, will have had immediate medical treatment thanks to the environment that he was in, which should hopefully lessen the chance of serious damage to his heart, and also would have saved his life. As others on here have mentioned, if this had happened in Aruba this past weekend or in his hotel room a few hours later, the results could have been a lot more grave.

 

Lawler will now probably be put on a ton of medication, including blood thinners, monitored and rehabbed. I would imagine that the WWE will pay for his medical treatment and ensure that he has the best care possible. I doubt that he'll wrestle again, he could possibly commentate again, although speaking from personal experience, when you're commentating and you're really getting into a match, your heart does race as you get excitable, so even that could be a risk.

 

Here's hoping that he makes a full recovery though. The man's a bona fide legend of pro wrestling.

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