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Colt Cabana Says He Nearly Died During Chris Jericho Match On AEW Dynamite
Colt Cabana recently faced Chris Jericho for the ROH World Title, and he revealed how he nearly died during that match. Cabana faced Jericho on the November 2nd episode of Dynamite, and on the latest Art of Wrestling Podcast he revealed how compression socks nearly killed him in the ring. You can see the highlights below:
On his match with Chris Jericho on Dynamite: “A couple of weeks ago, I wrestled Chris Jericho. And I wanted to share the story of how I almost died wrestling Chris Jericho. Not a lot of people know this story, some of the people in the back know this story. The doctors know this story. I’m not telling this story to make an excuse; nobody would have even known. Everyone complimented me on my match and I’m appreciative for that. But this is just a fun story and in 20 years I will laugh about it. In the moment, I did not laugh…I guess a couple weeks afterward I can laugh about it.
On how he bought compression socks to wear: “Of course, in my laundry room is my wrestling gear. I’ll wash my kneepads, I’ll wash my singlet. I don’t dry them though, just wash them, hang dry them. Of course, I wash my wrestling socks… I don’t know where my wrestling socks went, they went somewhere. I like long black soccer socks, wong wrestling socks, so there isn’t a gap between my boots and kneepads… So before I was going to wrestle Chris Jericho, I had to go out and buy new pair of socks. And of course I procrastinated, so I waited till the night before.
On feeling off during the match: “I wrestled Chris Jericho. Now of course that match, there was many emotions, there was a lot of tension going into it. My anxiety was high, tensions were high, the building was hot. So as I go to wrestle Jericho, I put on my compression socks, my kneepads, and my boots. And what I don’t realize is that I have essentially made a tourniquet in the bottom half of my body…
“Essentially what I did was restrict everything. I remember vividly thinking, ‘I can’t feel my legs. I guess it’s just the nerves.’ But it was nerves, it was the anxiety. But it was also the compression socks. And by the time I did the moonsault to the outside and had to run into the ring to give Jericho a flying asshole I had nothing left in my body. And I attributed it to the night of wrestling. But no, it was because I cut off the supply of blood to my own legs, causing high blood pressure and low, low oxygen. I knew I was on live TV and it was big moment for me, I figured a way to do it to Jericho knowing the match would come to an end very quickly.”
On the reaction backstage: “I could not move. And as I made my way back to the trainer’s room asking for electrolytes and the trainer being like, ‘We’re not sure what’s going on.’ And me just saying, ‘I gotta get this stuff off of me, I feel so compacted.’ And I ripped my singlet off and it still didn’t feel like enough. And I couldn’t breathe, I felt lightheaded, and I had a headache and my head was pounding.
“And then I’m just, ‘Can you take my boots off?’ And I felt like such a schmuck asking a grown man to take my boots off… he rips my boots off, and then I’m like, ‘Can you take my kneepads, I just feel so constricted.’ And he takes my kneepads off, and then, ‘Can you get my socks off?’ And I say, ‘You know, I bought these compression socks last night.’ And then the eyes of the trainers are just like, ‘What?’ As I was asked to lay back for the next two hours while ice was put all over my body, I was educated as to why you should not professionally wrestle in front of 10,000 people and almost a million people at home in compression socks.”
If you use any of the quotes in this article, please credit The Art of Wrestling with a h/t to 411mania.com for the transcription.
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