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Post by Vegas on Mar 22, 2017 12:31:33 GMT -5
On his Facebook page last weekend, Kaasa posted this about his injury:
To my family, friends, and fans, upon receiving medical evaluations after the unfortunate equipment malfunctions during the Evolve taping in San Antonio January 27th, I have decided to take a hiatus from professional wrestling. I won't say retirement as I am not sure right now. Because of the rope breaking, I have a moderately bulging disc in my cervical spine that has been causing a lot of discomfort and pain and stiffness on a daily basis since the accident. To actually have gotten up after what happened in the ring that night was a miracle in itself let alone finishing the match and being able to still do all I am doing now. (Superhuman stuff Lol)
I am thankful to the Lord for the blessing of still being able to surf and go to the gym, learn jiujitsu, and even as simple as walk to my car. I am sorry to those of you this news disappoints. I am torn what to do or think at the moment as well. To wrestle would mean worsening my injury and placing my body in even more jeopardy. The 15-30 minutes in the ring is all most people see. It is the reward for me and for you guys. But the countless hours, days, months, years (my whole life basically) I've put in to becoming an elite world class athlete and one of the top highflyers in the wrestling world will never be understood fully looking in from the outside. It's not easily grasped how much effort and dedication it has taken unless you've lived it yourself.
With that said I want to apologize to you guys and also say encouragement would be very much appreciated over any criticism or negativity. To my friends who have followed my short career, you know this is the 3rd serious injury I have suffered and this one though the outcome was ok, could have been the most life threatening/career ending one. I don't feel like I've missed my goal. I am very grateful for what I have accomplished thus far. The saying is you shoot for the moon and if you fall short, you'll still be amongst the stars. But I don't feel we fell short at all... I feel we went past the moon and came back again. Thanks for taking the Superhuman detour journey with me guys. I love many of y'all very much. The sun's still shining. Take a moment to see.
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Post by aceldamas on Mar 22, 2017 14:30:37 GMT -5
Careful now Switch, you said something factual that does not show IWC darling Gabe in a positive light. The IWC/Evolve marks are gonna get all mad at ya. Kaasa has plenty of botches, but yikes Evolve should be embarrassed to use such a shoddy ring. I doubt it is a ring that EVOLVE uses on a regular basis as I don't think EVOLVE transported that ring to Texas for EVOLVE 76 in San Antonio where Peter Kaasa got hurt. For example, when ROH comes here to Las Vegas for two weekends a year they borrow the ring of the local Indy fed FSW (as I assume they do from some other local feds in other places for live events.) For EVOLVE 76 in San Antonio, I don't know whether EVOLVE got that ring from the Texas Wrestling Academy (they put on the preshow that night,) rented it, or whatever but I agree that ring was shoddy and thus very dangerous that night. In addition to the middle rope snapping on Kaasa leading to him being injured, in the main event the top rope broke on Chris Hero after he was thrown into the ropes and then later in that same match the middle rope broke on Keith Lee forcing him to land badly on the head of Hero. Hero in his second to last EVOLVE match before returning to the WWE almost got injured twice in the same match due to the ring that caused Kaasa's injury. I was reminded of this ring from EVOLVE 76 when I went to PWG last month as PWG's usual ring was recently destroyed due to the ring truck catching fire so PWG had to use a different ring with a different ring crew. And in the very first match (Cody vs Trevor Lee) using this different ring the ring broke which caused a 45 minute delay to fix it. I read that is was the Texas Wrestling Academy ring.
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Post by executioner on Mar 23, 2017 12:53:05 GMT -5
If EVOLVE wants to be taken seriously, then good grief, use quality rings. Don't blame it on someone else. Its simple. And no fan should defend EVOLVE on this. They screwed up. It was a bush league move by a company that is not nearly as big league as its booker thinks it is.
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Post by Vegas on Mar 23, 2017 19:07:46 GMT -5
If EVOLVE wants to be taken seriously, then good grief, use quality rings. Don't blame it on someone else. Its simple. And no fan should defend EVOLVE on this. They screwed up. It was a bush league move by a company that is not nearly as big league as its booker thinks it is. I was just trying to address your earlier comment about how EVOLVE should be embarrassed to "use" such a ring by trying to point out how, despite the tragedy that ring caused Kaasa in San Antonio and it is definitely not a highlight for EVOLVE, at least it is actually not a ring that EVOLVE continues to "use" today or even regularly used before that show. By also pointing out in my previous post here the recent problem PWG had with its non-usual ring last month at Only Kings Understand Each Other, I was trying to say it seems that using a different ring from elsewhere perhaps seems to make these problems more likely (while not implying it makes it more acceptable.)
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 20:58:35 GMT -5
If EVOLVE wants to be taken seriously, then good grief, use quality rings. Don't blame it on someone else. Its simple. And no fan should defend EVOLVE on this. They screwed up. It was a bush league move by a company that is not nearly as big league as its booker thinks it is. I was just trying to address your earlier comment about how EVOLVE should be embarrassed to "use" such a ring by trying to point out how, despite the tragedy that ring caused Kaasa in San Antonio and it is definitely not a highlight for EVOLVE, at least it is actually not a ring that EVOLVE continues to "use" today or even regularly used before that show. By also pointing out in my previous post here the recent problem PWG had with its non-usual ring last month at Only Kings Understand Each Other, I was trying to say it seems that using a different ring from elsewhere perhaps seems to make these problems more likely (while not implying it makes it more acceptable.) Them not using the ring after that weekend doesn't change the fact it was a bad idea to use someone else's ring with no prior knowledge of if your talent can work their style in it. Not all wrestling rings are equal. ROH did the same thing for house shows and it resulted in a lot of really shitty looking shows that compromised the image of a company trying to look major league. When the ring broke in SA, they fixed it and sent the guys out without even checking to see if it was safe. There are eyewitness accounts of that from fans in the building. This lead to Chris Hero and Keith Lee, as you noted, risking their own wellbeing working in a ring that they shouldn't have even been using anyways. They both could have been seriously injured, one guy was seriously injured and there's no way that Evolve don't look like bush league dickheads in this scenario. If you're too goddamn cheap to bring your own ring, or you've never used the ring of the local promoter before, don't run that far from your home base. Not hard to figure that out. And on note of the PWG thing, a ring truck being destroyed in a fire resulting in them having to use a different ring is a different scenario entirely than Gabe and/or Sal not wanting to transport the ring they usually use.
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Post by Vegas on Mar 23, 2017 22:50:53 GMT -5
I was just trying to address your earlier comment about how EVOLVE should be embarrassed to "use" such a ring by trying to point out how, despite the tragedy that ring caused Kaasa in San Antonio and it is definitely not a highlight for EVOLVE, at least it is actually not a ring that EVOLVE continues to "use" today or even regularly used before that show. By also pointing out in my previous post here the recent problem PWG had with its non-usual ring last month at Only Kings Understand Each Other, I was trying to say it seems that using a different ring from elsewhere perhaps seems to make these problems more likely (while not implying it makes it more acceptable.) Them not using the ring after that weekend doesn't change the fact it was a bad idea to use someone else's ring with no prior knowledge of if your talent can work their style in it. Not all wrestling rings are equal. ROH did the same thing for house shows and it resulted in a lot of really shitty looking shows that compromised the image of a company trying to look major league. When the ring broke in SA, they fixed it and sent the guys out without even checking to see if it was safe. There are eyewitness accounts of that from fans in the building. This lead to Chris Hero and Keith Lee, as you noted, risking their own wellbeing working in a ring that they shouldn't have even been using anyways. They both could have been seriously injured, one guy was seriously injured and there's no way that Evolve don't look like bush league dickheads in this scenario. If you're too goddamn cheap to bring your own ring, or you've never used the ring of the local promoter before, don't run that far from your home base. Not hard to figure that out. And on note of the PWG thing, a ring truck being destroyed in a fire resulting in them having to use a different ring is a different scenario entirely than Gabe and/or Sal not wanting to transport the ring they usually use. but once again, I am not attempting to defend the ring they used in San Antonio as much as replying to the word "use" used by Executioner because it seemed to indicate that EVOLVE typically uses that ring since the word "use" (unlike used) indicates something being done on a consistent basis. Also I realize the entire PWG and EVOLVE scenarios are not the same (nor did I ever say they were,) but the end result of those scenarios of using an unfamiliar ring is the same and I do think that similar result of using a different ring (regardless of how they got there) makes it is more likely to lead to the type of ring breakdown problems both feds have experienced in the last 60 days.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 23, 2017 23:01:17 GMT -5
but once again, I am not attempting to defend the ring they used in San Antonio as much as replying to the word "use" used by Executioner because it seemed to indicate that EVOLVE typically uses that ring since the word "use" (unlike used) indicates something being done on a consistent basis. Pretty sure he was indicating that Evolve shouldn't use other people's rings when they could just transport their own, but I'm not him. Maybe executioner can shed some light on it. Also I realize the entire PWG and EVOLVE scenarios are not the same (nor did I ever say they were,) but the end result of those scenarios of using an unfamiliar ring is the same The end result wasn't the same, though. As far as I've heard, nobody on that PWG show got hurt as badly as Kaasa did and none of them were put in the situation that Hero and Keith Lee were where they had to go out and do a big boys match in a ring that had failed earlier in the night. and I do think that similar result of using a different ring (regardless of how they got there) makes it is more likely to lead to the type of ring breakdown problems both feds have experienced in the last 60 days. I agree.
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Post by Vegas on Mar 23, 2017 23:15:54 GMT -5
Also I realize the entire PWG and EVOLVE scenarios are not the same (nor did I ever say they were,) but the end result of those scenarios of using an unfamiliar ring is the same The end result wasn't the same, though. As far as I've heard, nobody on that PWG show got hurt as badly as Kaasa did and none of them were put in the situation that Hero and Keith Lee were where they had to go out and do a big boys match in a ring that had failed earlier in the night. I was just referring to the same end result of using a different ring as the similar outcome for the two different scenarios. But when you take it a step further and go with the results of using that unfamiliar ring, I absolutely agree it was far worse in EVOLVE. It was tragic what happened to Peter Kaasa. I hope he is able to make it back someday. He sort of reminds me of a mini Rick Steiner.
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Post by executioner on Mar 24, 2017 6:55:05 GMT -5
Since my word "use" is causing some heartburn, please let me explain. I don't care if it is Evolve's regular ring or one they rent from a local 5th tier Indy. Evolve is RESPONSIBLE for the equipment it CHOOSES to use. Evolve CHOSE to use that dreadful ring. Evolve CHOSE to not bring its presumably regular ring. That falls on Evolve. In the end, It was a bush league move and I guess Gabe can reconcile the damage he caused by the ring he chooses to USE at this or other shows. Expecting a promotion that wishes to be taken seriously to use a quality ring at any venue is not unreasonable, it should be expected.
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Post by Tournament Master on Mar 24, 2017 8:29:45 GMT -5
I do know that for the show the next day they got a different ring from another promotion. Atleast they didn't try to use the crap one again.
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