WWE: Bray Wyatt on Barry Windham’s Health Issues, Ronda Rousey on Shotzi Match Issues, Cody Rhodes

Bray Wyatt Comments on His Uncle’s Barry Windham’s Heart Attack & Recovery

As noted before, WWE Hall of Famer Barry Windham suffered a heart attack earlier this month and had been in ICU care since this past Monday. Windham’s health situation recently improved enough for him to no longer require ICU care.

Bray Wyatt recently reflected on Instagram about his uncle Windham’s health issues.

“When I was a kid, I looked at my dad, my uncles, my grandfather, who were all professional wrestlers. I looked at them as if they were like they were Greek gods or something, like they couldn’t feel pain; they were immortal; they would always be just like that. As we get older, and I become a man myself, you start to understand that’s just not the case. Nothing is forever.

This week, my uncle, Barry Windham, he had a massive heart failure in Atlanta and he went down, and he didn’t have a pulse for 10 to 20 minutes, so he was away, he was gone.

I want to thank one specific man, Michael Todd Lalic, who was there — a random citizen. He gave him CPR there throughout that entire time before everyone else and the EMTs can get to him, and he stayed with him, and he’s the reason that we have Barry still. He’s alive, he’s with us.

Barry Windham has given his life to his profession. His whole life has been about this, just like mine, and he put everything into it, and I wanted to share that I am incredibly thankful to have him back.

My sister set up a GoFundMe in his name and not obligated to share, no one is obligated to share anything. But if you could, that would be incredibly helpful … Be good to the ones you love. Always remind them about that how much they mean to you because nothing is forever. Thank you for everything, guys.

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Transcript h/t: PostWrestling.com

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Ronda Rousey Comments on Issues with Her Match Against Shotzi at WWE Survivor Series WarGames

Ronda Rousey held a recent gaming session on YouTube. One of the topics discussed included Rousey’s thoughts on the botched DDT spot on the apron she took during her match against Shotzi at WWE’s Survivor Series WarGames event this past November.

“Well, guys. Do you ever wake up from a deep sleep and think of a cringe moment in your life? Then you lay awake in bed? Well, I had one of those this morning. I woke up at 630 this morning and was like, ‘Oh god, that DDT on the apron! Ahhh!

So, let me explain what happened. I actually pitched that spot because I love that she does that but we couldn’t practice it in my ring because the ropes were too loose and then we couldn’t practice it when we got to the arena because there were these big cages.

Everyone was so focused on ‘you got to guide her over, you got to guide her to the floor,’ that it was literally all that was on my mind when it happened. So, she went over, I was like, ‘guide her’ and when she was down, I was like, ‘oh f**k. Ahhh, just go to where you’re supposed to go.’

I f***ed it up because I was so concerned with keeping somebody safe and a lot of times when you see me do something for the first time, it’s the first time I ever did it. It’s the first time I ever did it, I was really concerned with keeping Shotzi safe and I made it look bad and you know what? Sorry. Apparently, I deserve to be fired or burned.”

Rousey also gave her thoughts about her match being cut short for time and not being able to deliver what was originally planned for their match.

“I guess the match before us went over by like six minutes and they were really concerned about going over on time and the match after us was a three-way so they wouldn’t be able to communicate with each other to be able to make the match shorter. The match after that was WarGames, they couldn’t cut that out so it was the only place where they could get that time back. So, I was kind of bummed though because we worked on that match for two weeks and we were really excited about it and I feel like I really kind of failed Shotzi. I really wanted to showcase her s**t and make all of her s**t look great and show everybody how great she is.

But that wasn’t the match, that was like the beginning of the match and I’m kind of bummed that we’re getting judged from not really what we put together.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com

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Cody Rhodes’ WrestleMania 39 Plans Update

As noted before, Cody Rhodes has been out of action for WWE since this past June due to a torn pectoral injury.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that WWE officials are currently fully expecting for Rhodes to make his in-ring return from injury in time for next year’s WrestleMania 39 event.

It was reported that Rhodes recently was involved in the filming of a commercial this past Thursday in Los Angeles for the upcoming event. It was also reported that it is currently not known if Rhodes was actually involved or if it was a stunt double dressed up as him but this filming involved Rhodes and Miz locking up on a Los Angeles bridge to help promote the upcoming event. Maryse reportedly was also seen in attendance during the filming of this commercial but it is currently not known if she actually participated in it.