7 Big Revelations From Rene Dupree's Shoot Interview
5. He's On The Brink Of Reitrement Due To Concussion Issues
It's no secret that the life of a wrestler takes its toll on the body. Injuries are part and parcel of the business and, after a while, the wear and tear really starts to slow you down. This seems to be the case with Dupree who, at 31-years-old, is considering retirement due to the amount of injuries he has sustained over his career:
Im pretty much done with the whole wrestling game. Id like to do the convention circuit so I dont have to take any bumps because my brains are so scrambled from throughout the years that its starting to affect me and starting to affect my daily life.
Dupree lists concussions, specifically those that were undiagnosed, as the primary reason for his current troubles, sighting memory problems. Dupree estimates that he suffered twenty five concussions while in WWE:
Now that I am getting older, it started when I was around 27, I started forgetting stuff, I had twenty-five concussions just within WWE. You think about well I have so many, not really when you work a full time schedule and I was there for 5 1/2 years and when you wrestle what, 150- 250 matches a year, to have four or five concussions a year do you think thats highly unlikely? No, thats normal.
Those are scary numbers and paint a vivid picture of WWE at the time. These days, in a post-Benoit world, WWE arevery careful when it comes to concussions and take thorough steps to insure that all talent are medically cleared and safe to compete. Just look at Daniel Bryan - he's been out for months now because of past issues with concussions and WWE's medical personnel won't clear until they're certain that he isn't at-risk.
