Think thats callous? WCW did worse to Davey Boy Smith, the British Bulldog. Smith had been hospitalised for some months after seriously injuring his back taking an otherwise perfectly normal bump in a match with Alex Wright. Hed landed hard on the trapdoor in the ring that Warrior used for his mysterious appearances, crushing the C-9 and C-10 vertebrae in his back and fracturing four other vertebrae. To make matters worse, hed contracted a serious staph infection, and was in a body cast. Scuttlebutt (like gossip in intensive care) said that his career might be over, that he might be confined to a wheelchair: the other whispers were that his life was in danger. None of that stopped WCW from exercising their contractual right to end the Bulldogs employment after a certain number of days had expired without a performance. To add insult to injury, the Fed Ex envelope with his termination notice was sent directly to Smiths hospital bed. Bischoff claimed later that hed had no idea of the worsening of Smiths medical condition when he made the decision to fire him, and that it was an administrative mistake to send the notice to the hospital. However, to make matters even worse, WCW elected to try and spin the PR disaster as part of an angle: it was all so that the nefarious company could prove theyll mess with the babyfaces friends and family if necessary, a craven way to try and cover up their legit lack of compassion for a man at deaths door as a consequence of an injury sustained on their watch.
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