00:00How's he even able to stand, is what I want to know.
00:04He don't have a damn clue where he is.
00:06He'll show us how tough he is.
00:07He's still competing here.
00:08Learn to fall on my big Oklahoma butt.
00:10How do you learn to fall off a 20-foot ladder?
00:12He landed hard.
00:13How much can these human beings take?
00:15This match should be stopped.
00:16They're not going to stop this type of matchup for injuries.
00:20Mercifully.
00:21My God, it's finally over.
00:23He gave it all he had.
00:24I find it amazing that sometimes fans and cynics, especially in the media, will say,
00:32well, you know, these guys know how to fall.
00:34But I defy anyone to tell me how someone learns to fall on concrete.
00:38We're hitting a mat that everybody thinks it's like a trampoline.
00:41No, no, there's plywood in, like, 2x4s and 2x12s underneath this thing.
00:46Because it's predetermined, people assume that it's fake.
00:50But if it looks like it hurt, then I guarantee it did.
00:52You can't jump off a cage to a table and not expect it to hurt.
00:56Every week, these guys take a tremendous abuse on their body.
01:00And they just keep going.
01:02I don't think there's anything in the world quite like the WWE,
01:06as far as the physical toll it takes on an athlete.
01:15I did nothing ridiculous in it.
01:18I mean, I hit a guy from behind, just planted my leg, and it just engine blew.
01:22Lots of people have experienced a hamstring strain or a quadricep pull or something like that.
01:28But to completely rip the whole muscle itself, the tendon itself, the pain, I can't imagine what that felt like.
01:35But, you know, Triple H felt that he needed to finish the match.
01:38People ask me, why did I continue?
01:40Why did I just lay down and say that was it?
01:43Never even entered my mind.
01:44I never thought about it.
01:45To gut it out and finish it is just, you know, courageous on his part.
01:49But I honestly think any guy would have done the same thing if it was in that situation.
01:54Our job is to go out there and have a match.
01:57And by not finishing the match, we don't finish our job.
01:59That's the way a lot of the guys look at it.
02:00I thought Shane might have been knocked out.
02:06I thought he might have broke his neck.
02:09I was really concerned.
02:10Do you go ahead or do you give up?
02:12Do you go for it or do you give up?
02:13And that's, you're always asking yourself that question.
02:15And the answer was, let's keep going.
02:20They just, you know, feel that they owe it to the fans to give their all.
02:25You know, each night Bob Holly broke his arm in the ring.
02:29You know, continued to try to go through it.
02:31Me being the type of guy that I am, I decided to keep going.
02:35Because it hurts so bad, I thought to myself, well, the pain can't get no worse than it already is.
02:41All it takes is one little movement, land, just like when I did my shoulder.
02:46All I did was land on my shoulder and it went.
02:48The whole thing went.
02:53Landed on my elbow and the bone just went right through everything.
02:57It tore my rotator cuff ten and a half, tore all three.
02:59You have four heads to your shoulder, tore three from the front to the rear.
03:02I thought I just separated it.
03:04It's actually what I thought I did.
03:05But we had to go through and finish the match because it was leading to a pay-per-view,
03:09which was four days later.
03:11They told me I'd have surgery, but I had to go to the pay-per-view.
03:13You know, that was just an obligation I had to do.
03:15I hurt my dislocated my right shoulder.
03:24And as we both landed, his weight and my weight both landed on my arm,
03:29which is, I felt like some type of burning of feeling in my right shoulder.
03:34And I knew something was wrong then.
03:36The remarkable thing was, is that Rikishi continued to wrestle, I think, on two occasions
03:41with his shoulder actually dislocated and finished the match, basically.
03:46Continued to wrestle with his arm actually out of place.
03:49And that's almost impossible, I would say.
03:53On many occasions, our guys will be diagnosed with an injury that put the normal guy on the
04:00shelf, but they will work through it.
04:01When I tore my PCL, it was in a match against X-Pac.
04:05And I'm sure it was just wear and tear.
04:09And then finally, that's probably just what did it.
04:11Just the constant landing right on your knee is what the doctor told me is what did it.
04:17You don't want something like that to happen.
04:26And when it does happen, it is unfortunate.
04:28But now, it's kind of like a neat little game you have to play because now you're hurt.
04:33Now you've got to figure out a way to finish the match and work around your injury.
04:37So, I mean, I think it's kind of fun.
04:40They love what they do.
04:41And for many of them, and we're blessed with that, that this is what they wanted to do
04:46all their life.
04:47And they're willing to pay one hell of a price to continue to perform.
04:55I think I broke my tailbone.
04:57I said, but let's keep going.
04:58It's a credit to what a stud Kurt is.
05:02He's just an amazing athlete.
05:04Amazing.
05:05And drive and heart is what's keeping that going now, and adrenaline.
05:08Kurt Angle is a machine.
05:10He won't stop.
05:11These guys just, they keep going night after night.
05:21You can't discount the commitment nor the respect that should be given to these athletes that
05:27have competed with pain and injury and sacrifice all for the good of the product.
05:36Guys have got concussions in the ring, you know, and been able to finish matches and, you
05:40know, not really remember what happened.
05:42You could see it when Kurt was coming out.
05:44He was like glass-eyed.
05:45He was looking around.
05:47He's a guy unconscious in the ring.
05:49Just going.
05:50And he's new.
05:51He's not even like a veteran or anything.
05:53He's a brand new guy.
05:54My hat's off to him for that.
05:55I ruptured a disc, which fragmented into my spinal column, which caused severe pain in my neck.
06:09So I knew immediately something was very drastically wrong.
06:16The ring is back, and it's back to being one of the best in the world.
06:22He probably got there faster than most people that I know.
06:24He's a one-of-a-kind.
06:26On the set of Dark Angel filming for the season finale.
06:28After this did happen, and she was dropping her head, you know, her neck was broken, you
06:34know, she has a ruptured disc.
06:35You know, she went ahead and did five more days of filming and shooting and finished it
06:41by doing stand-ins.
06:42The hardest thing for her to do is just to face her own inactivity.
06:46She's young and vibrant and had just burst on the scene as really starting to establish
06:51herself, and I think that probably just the mental aspect right now of having to sit and
06:56wait and be patient whether you want to or not is her biggest challenge.
07:00Not wrestling due to my injury.
07:02It's been, um, it sucks.
07:05It really sucks.
07:06Um, they always say, you know, like, you don't know what you have until it's gone, and I
07:10always knew how much I loved doing what I do, but, um, it's definitely hard to sit and
07:14watch my friends on TV and not be there.
07:17If I'm out, you know, four or five months, I'm Jones, and I've got to come back.
07:21So I try to heal up as fast as I can.
07:24There's guys working right now that need to have surgeries on their back, need to have
07:27surgeries on their neck or their knees, but they still go in there night after night and
07:31do what they do just because they don't want to take that time off.
07:34I'll tell you one thing.
07:36Professional wrestlers, there's a group of the toughest guys you'll ever treat as athletes.
07:42Without knocking any of the other guys, I don't know that there's a group of athletes
07:48that I've ever seen in any endeavor as physically and as mentally tough as the wrestlers are.
07:54I've worked in a variety of different sports, and, you know, I'll put them up against any
07:59professional athlete.
08:01I think they're just so used to the pain that they're able to work through it.
08:05And, you know, there's every guy walks around with some sort of ache.
08:10The Undertaker has worked through a variety of injuries.
08:14The uniqueness of The Undertaker is that you see him in Hell in a Cell matches, and you
08:18see him on the top row.
08:20He puts his 300-pound body on that seven-foot frame into some very precarious positions that
08:25anatomically it's not meant to be.
08:28It's just a passion.
08:30That's the best way to put it.
08:31He's got passion.
08:31I can feel bad, I can hurt, I can do whatever, but when I crack those curtains, that's what
08:36drives you.
08:38The people drive you day in and day out.
08:41Because, you know, I could try to explain it to you or try to describe it to you, but
08:45there's nothing better than walking out and seeing 20,000 people blow out of their seats.
08:49You try to tell a guy to take it easy one night, and he gets out there, and the adrenaline
08:53starts flowing, the crowds start cheering for him, and next thing you know they're doing
08:58all the things you try to avoid them, you know, tell them not to do.
09:01It's an unbelievable moment to have that many people say, thank you very much for that.
09:10That's what you do it for.
09:11Perform in the ring before big crowds at major events, and when you get little boys and little
09:17girls that have dreamed of doing that all their life, and they finally get to realize
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