Andrew Martin on March 14 Additional studies were required to determine the cause and manner of death. On April 9 , Dr Adams completed the required studies and issued the following cause and manner of death opinions. So we at least know that others who said steroids were the cause jumped the gun a bit.
Officers did discover steroids and pain killers in his Tampa apartment, but we know now that they were not the cause of his death. Drugs were the cause, which is unfortunate. And that will be hard for his family to take I am sure. He was in the WWE for many years and they gave him several opportunities for him to stop, even offered rehab.
I woke up this morning and as usual always check the wrestling news going around. I am in absolute shock upon hearing about Andrew "Test" Martin being found dead in his apartment. I can't write about it so I just had to take the news story I read from impactwrestling. We don't have many more details right now, but reports say he was found in his apartment. Tampa area authorities have declined to confirm it is Martin, but word within the wrestling industry has been widespread.
I can't imagine what they felt. He began in professional wrestling in as "Martin Kane" and "T. Thunder" in the independent promotions of Canada. But Martin hit the big time a year later when he debuted for the then-World Wrestling Federation playing the role of bodyguard for the band Motley Crue. Soon he began appearing with the name "Test," slang for testosterone.
In one scripted scenario, he was a member of the Corporation, a group of wrestlers known for wielding 2-by-4s in the ring. In , after a neck injury, he underwent spinal fusion surgery and was later released by the WWE. Martin returned to the WWE in but was suspended for 30 days in for violating the company's Talent Wellness Program when he tested positive for testosterone. He eventually was released from his contract. Martin was arrested in Florida for driving under the influence in the fall of and again in the spring of According to a time line provided to the St.
His father, Robert Martin, told the Times his son had been addicted to painkillers for years. Between October and December of that year, Martin kept in touch with WWE executives and attended support group meetings.
He last wrestled in Japan in January. They didn't think it was their son. They didn't understand what had happened. With the help of a reporter, she is calculating the "bumps" -- the euphemism wrestlers use to describe each choreographed fall -- to the head she took in five years of active professional wrestling.
A main-act performer can do to shows a year, including training and perfecting dangerous maneuvers, plus an intense match of between four and 10 minutes. If there are, say, 20 bumps a day -- "and that's very, very conservative," Dawn Marie noted -- that works out to some 5, blows per year and more than 20, for her brief career in the ring.
I'm so shaken up. Doing the math, she speculated that Benoit and Martin could have endured more than 50, blows to the neck and head during their careers.
That's really sad to me. It's just our ignorance. A child doesn't know that fire can hurt them until they put their finger in the flame. Three doctors, all in the employment of the league, called for a retraction.
Gradually, the league has come to recognize the dangers of concussions and repeated head trauma. In , incoming NFL commissioner Roger Goodell presided over the league's first summit on concussions. Last week he sent a memo to all 32 teams outlining a stricter concussion protocol. Players who suffer a concussion and display certain signs and symptoms should not return to a game, he wrote; previously, the standard was losing consciousness. Additionally, teams were required to consult with independent neurologists, rather than relying solely on their own doctors in assessing concussion cases.
In two recent high-profile cases, quarterbacks Ben Roethlisberger and Kurt Warner of the Steelers and Cardinals, respectively, sat out games with concussion symptoms. Bailes, who was the Steelers' team physician for 10 years, was also Webster's doctor after he retired. He testified in October before the House Judiciary Committee about the issue of head trauma, a hearing that raised the profile of concussions and their fallout. Wrestling ought to take note of that.
The story of Andrew Martin should be a wake-up call for people involved in another very popular sport that repeated impacts on the brain are not a good thing. Omalu said he is encouraged by the decisions of Roethlisberger and Warner to stand on the sideline, but he warns that concussions are not the only problem.
The cumulative effect of lesser but still-substantial blows, he stressed, also can cause long-term damage.
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