Daizee Haze taking time off

[jimsteel]

CHIKARA has announced that Daizee Haze will be taking an indefinite hiatus from professional wrestling to focus on her health and recovery. The promotion, however, is publicly attributing Haze's leave of absence to a storyline rather than her legitimate health issue. Their statement reads:

Any discussion of Daizee Haze's well-being should, first and foremost, reference the fact that she was not only struck over the head last Sunday with a chair after a hard match, but then after the main event, was manhandled by Claudio Castagnoli with perhaps the most brutal chokeslam of all time.

We're disturbed to learn that Daizee Haze will be taking an indefinite hiatus to focus on her health and recovery, and we expect to have comments from her partner, Sara Del Rey, to publish this coming week on our website.

I'm sure all members of the CHIKARMY join us in wishing Daizee a full recovery and return to complete health.

Haze's well-being has drawn great concern as she appeared alarmingly skinny at two recent independent wrestling events; her emaciated appearance at last Sunday's Chikarasaurus Rex event in Philadelphia drew "eat a sandwich" chants from fans.

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Wow. That's scary and sad. From what I've read and seen, it seems like Daizee really takes care of herself and works her ass off. She just happens to be small and skinny. But if she's having all of these health concerns, I hope she recovers quickly and gets back to being one of the best women in the business.

[blkwolf2011]

She will be back once she recovers from her injuries. With her being so busy between Shimmer, Chikara, ROH, training wrestlers, I hope she'll whatever time necessary to recover from her injuries.

[marktaggart]

Some fans need to learn a little respect. Chants like that do no one any good. For what it's worth, in my opinion she's just looked like one of those over-trained marathon runners lately. That build isn't too conducive to getting tossed around a wrestling ring. If they say she's taking time off due to injuries then that's good enough for me and all I need to know. I hope she gets well soon.

[du5tin]

I agree, Mark. I think the "eat a sandwich" chant is a little much.

[offspring515]

Yeah the "eat a sandwich" chant is an example of fans forgetting that the wrestlers are human beings. IF, and I stress if, she has an eating disorder a chant like that would do much more damage than good.

[chewey]

I personally hope Daizee Haze comes back soon. I think she brings a lot to the product, and with the push they're giving Sara Del Ray, having her supporting Del Ray helps strengthen the image of women trying to compete with the men.

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Aug 10, 2011 11:07:29 GMT -5 chewey said:

I personally hope Daizee Haze comes back soon. I think she brings a lot to the product, and with the push they're giving Sara Del Ray, having her supporting Del Ray helps strengthen the image of women trying to compete with the men.

I was thinking the same thing, Chewey. It added something extra to Sara's current push, like it was now the two of them against all the Chikara roster to prove themselves. They fought each other a hundred times, defeated all of the women Chikara brought in to face them, formed a team, showed they don't realy need the BDK, and now they're on their own. It was built up really well, so hopefully Daizee can be healthy soon to continue it. If anything, maybe they'll at least let Daizee come in for just a managerial role for Sara.

Side note: Damn Chikara's been plagued with injuries and problems lately. Fire Ant, Jigsaw, Brodie Lee, Amasis, Ophidian, Daizee...it's been rough.