Pro wrestling is a dangerous business. While the competition might be fake, the action is real and at the end of Monday night’s episode of “Raw,” the world learned why WWE warns viewers to not try this at home.
Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar broke three ribs of fellow wrestler Jamie Noble after a scripted brawl broke out between him and Noble, Joey Mercury, Seth Rollins and Kane, the group of heels known as “The Authority.”
WWE confirmed the injury to The Washington Post and on its Web site WWE.com, where it uploaded a video of Noble being loaded onto an ambulance after the show ended around 11 p.m. EDT.
The injury occurred when Lesnar sent Noble into the barricades late in the evening, but unlike his tag team partner Mercury, who makes up the other half “J&J Security,” Noble never returned to the ring. On Tuesday, WWE edited the move out of its recap footage of the brawl.
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Noble remained motionless on the ground for a large part of the minutes-long bit until medical officials could reach him. Noble was then given oxygen at the scene before he was loaded onto a stretcher and transported to an hospital in Indianapolis. WWE declined to identify the hospital to The Washington Post or whether Noble remains there.
For his part, Noble sounds fine now, although he admitted on Twitter that when it first happened he could not breathe.
I would like to thank WWE staff and all the fans for nice messages. I have 3 broke ribs. Couldn't breathe at first.
— Jamie Noble (@WWENoble) June 23, 2015Team WWE didn't take any chances with my health thank you!!!
— Jamie Noble (@WWENoble) June 23, 2015Noble also thanked WWE for its medical care, the adequacy of which came under fire last year after former WWE star CM Punk accused the promotion’s doctors of gross negligence while giving an interview to Colt Cabana on his podcast last year. Ringside doctor Chris Amann later sued Punk and Cabana for $1 million citing defamation. The lawsuit is currently pending in Cook County Circuit Court in Illinois.
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