{"id":5682,"date":"2020-07-17T15:31:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=5682"},"modified":"2020-07-17T15:31:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T15:31:09","slug":"jordan-parsons-axl-rotten-balls-mahoney-diagnosed-with-cte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=5682","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Parsons, Axl Rotten &amp; Balls Mahoney diagnosed with CTE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bellator fighter Jordan Parsons and 90s ECW stars Brian Knighton\u00a0(Axl Rotten) and John Rechner (Balls Mahoney) were diagnosed with CTE\u00a0based on brain examinations by Dr. Julia K. Kofler at the University of\u00a0Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, who was in conjunction with Dr.\u00a0Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist whose work was highlighted in the\u00a0movie &#8220;Concussion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/France-rugby' title='Cheap France Rugby Jersey'>Cheap France Rugby Jersey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Omalu released the information\u00a0to the Boston Globe on Thursday. He also\u00a0reviewed Kofler&#8217;s diagnosis and endorsed her findings.<\/p>\n<p>Konstantine Kyros, the lawyer involved with a class action lawsuit\u00a0against WWE regarding concussions, was interviewed for the story saying\u00a0he has no plans to sue Bellator. Parsons&#8217; mother contacted Kyros about an\u00a0examination of her son, who claimed that he got the brain examined to\u00a0explore whether athletes in sports other than football, hockey, boxing, and\u00a0wrestling were at risk of CTE.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of the tragedy of Mr. Parsons&#8217; death, I hope the results serve to\u00a0warn and educate other athletes and their doctors about the hidden risks\u00a0involved,&#8221; said Kyros.<\/p>\n<p>Brian Flinn of WWE said the organization would not comment until it has\u00a0reviewed the search on the diagnoses of Rechner and Knighton.\u00a0The family\u00a0of Knighton is involved in a Kyros-led lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Flinn claimed Kyros was pushing the CTE story to counter negative\u00a0publicity about WWE court motions to sanction him from improper conduct\u00a0that were filed earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Omalu said that it was impossible for the CTE in Parsons to have been\u00a0caused when he was hit by a car in an accident that ended up being fatal\u00a0as he crossed a street.<\/p>\n<p>Knighton and Rechner were frequent tag team partners known for their\u00a0willingness to both give and take hard chair shots to the head, and\u00a0nicknamed The Chair Swinging Freaks. Both took ridiculous amounts of\u00a0punishment in being stars of hardcore wrestling.<\/p>\n<p>Both had severe health problems for years before their deaths, each at\u00a044, Knighton from an accidental heroin overdose and Rechner from a heart\u00a0attack.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Bellator fighter Jordan Parsons and 90s ECW stars Brian Knighton\u00a0(Axl Rotten) and John Rechner (Balls Mahoney) were diagnosed with CTE\u00a0based on brain examinations by Dr. Julia K. Kofler at the University of\u00a0Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian, who was in conjunction with Dr.\u00a0Bennet Omalu, the forensic pathologist whose work was highlighted in the\u00a0movie &#8220;Concussion.&#8221; Click Here:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}