Recap credit: 411mania.com
Joined by the cerebral assassin junior! How is his head? It’s still attached to his shoulders, but not much else. Dr Tom reminds us that he was former Tough Enough mates with Josh and begins to mock Nowinski’s amnesia by reminding him of the time Maven and Josh connived to make him look bad. Nowinski’s physical condition? He was kicked in the chin last June and received a concussion. He didn’t take care of it and continued to wrestle matches which actually caused him brain damage and increased the post-concussion syndrome. He has had constant headaches since then, although they are getting better now. He has had sleepwalking problems as well, and gives us the example of a time when he dived off the bed into a wall, breaking a lamp on his way down. It happens all the time, as he acts out his dreams, moves around furniture and chases imaginary burglars.
He has tried to get back in the ring and run the ropes – but it didn’t work out. Doctors have told him to not ever bother until the headaches have subsided. He has recently had 4 botox injections in his neck to help out the problematic nerves. On whether he is looking forward to getting back in the ring, Nowinski thinks that it depends on the mood he’s in at the time. He is in better shape than ever before though, he is 15lbs lighter and can now do a lot of things he could not do before. Everything below his neck feels good.
To keep himself busy, he has been getting involved with the Smackdown Your Vote stuff. Recently he participated in a 45 minute ‘rap session’ with high school students. He has also been researching the concussion issue for American football players to be published in a book. He is working on getting a publisher now. He has a lot of research done already, and believes it could help a lot of people. He spoke to one 12 year old kid who, due to concussion, has no recollection of his entire life.
Edgefan03 from the Instant Feedback Room (the coolest place to be on a Thursday afternoon, kids!) asks Nowinski about his memory problems. For the first 6 months Nowinski couldn’t remember certain things – life was like a blur. Things are better now, and he has a lot of techniques to remember stuff. Josh starts talking about Memento while Dr Tom asks Nowinski if he remembers when Josh put German Sheppard faeces in his bed.
Jeff from Stonersville, Atlanta asks Nowinski how he got involved in the wrestling business, pointing out that it was an unusual choice considering he attended Harvard. Chris was not allowed to watch wrestling as a child, but after watching WWF with friends the year before he went to University, he realised what a great business it would be and enrolled in Killer Kowalski’s wrestling school. Although he was a ‘late bloomer’, he thinks it was a great choice to make.
Dr Tom asks him if he would like to be re-teamed with his ‘intellectual equal’ William Regal on his eventual return. Nowinski considers it a privilege to have been teamed with him in the first place, and would love to do it again. He has seen Regal’s new protégé Eugene and is very impressed! He wonders where WWE found him, to which Dr Tom replies that it was the same street where they found Josh. Nowinski has also been taking improv. classes. He likes Bradshaw’s new gimmick as it is as close to the real person as possible. He also doesn’t remember the time Josh scratched his car with keys.
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