Hayabusa is paralyzed (2001/10/22)

[Hisaharu Tanabe]

During a match against Mommoth Suzuki at Kourakuen Hall, Hayabusa attempted a moonsault from the second rope but failed and landed with his neck. FMW announced that he currently has paralysis in his body although he is counscious. Further announcement from the FMW office is to come tomorrow.

[smacks]

I want to send my prayers out to Hayabusa, who I think is one of the best performers in all of wrestling. He will be greatly missed

[Steven Edwards]

smacks (10-22-2001 05:05 p.m.):
I want to send my prayers out to Hayabusa, who I think is one of the best performers in all of wrestling. He will be greatly missed

My prayers are with him as well, but depending on the specifics of his injury, he still may be able to walk if treated with therapies that are currently listed as "experimental" and cannot yet be carried out in the United States, but could in other countries. I will be back later with some more information.

-Steven

Edit:

First things first: get him in a cooled environment. This will slow down the metabolism of the scavenger cells trying to clean up the injury site and minimize secondary damage that often lasts 72 hours or more.

Hyperbaric oxygen chamber: this will help keep as much oxygen as possible to the dying cells, allowing some to survive the secondary damage mentioned above.

-Steven

[Kid Zeus]

I'm extremely saddened that my first response on this board is to such a tragedy. He has been a truly exemplary superstar in Japanese and world wrestling. Though I will miss his ring-work, I'm far more concerned about his personal well-being. I wish Hayabusa the best in whatever recovery he is able to make.

[Krusher]

This was not the kind of thing I wanted to come home to read after a Monday at work...Hayabusa is my favorite Japanese wrestler, so needless to say I'm shocked and worried about him. I know it's too early to tell, but if his career is indeed over, I can only hope that he'll be able to recover enough to lead a normal life. Ganbare yo, Hayabusa!! Hang in there, we're pulling for you!!

[smacks]

This news is very presonally saddening for me because it was Hayabusa and Jushin Lyger that were the reason I got into puroresu. His tag matches with Jinsei were great, his feuds with Mike Awesome and WING, too. Selfishly, I hope he can recover so I can see him wrestle again. As a person, I hope he can recover so that he can at least lead a normal life, and *** willing return to a career that he has wanted since he was young, working for a company that, no matter what, he refused to abandon for more money else where. My prayers, support and best wishes are with him and his family.

[The Great Gouki]

Exactially. I am a backyard wrestler. A **** good one. If I hurt myself I would blame myself. I was "backyard wrestling" since the late 80's and i'm 18 now. This has kept me from joining gangs in my hometown. Just like sandlot baseball. Now the only reason I'm still doing this is becuase I can't afford the cost to join wrestling school. ANY backyard wrestler that has ANY intellegence will tell you,yes there are some idiots out there. Then there are some who respect wrestling as a sport still, not the American WWF "sports-entertainment" crap today. Those who respect the sport will tell you to take care of each other. Now I'm sorry I said you were Americian when you are Canidian. And you are right about the U.S. being overpatrionic,but this is about wrestling. And I could care less about patrioticness. And your comments about Hayabusa just **** me off. A person with any humanity wouldn't say that about a person. I realize the point you are trying to make but it's NEVER a good thing when someone's life nearly ends. Being a backyard wrestler my first priority is the health and well-being of others. I NEVER try to replicate moves i can't do. So to anyone who believes this benifets wrestling in any way is ignorant. And to anyone who think backyard wrestling is full of "redneck teens" believe me when I say for every idiot there is someone like me who loves what he does and takes care of others.

[The KraZe]

"...I really hope I just took it wrong, but you are a sick individual for say that Hayabusa being injured is a good thing. That would be like saying it was a good thing that the WTC was taken down by terrorists so Americans will realize that we have no giant shield surrounding our country and that we're not invulnerable."

Now, lets look at something closer...

"...That would be like saying ..."

That my friend... is a comparison.

The Great Gouki... You said you're a backyard wrestler, and that you actually do things properly instead of jackin' around and you're waiting to join a wrestling school... all I have to say is this...

GOOD FOR YOU! YOU'RE ONE OF THE SMART ONES!

I myself have been in the sport for nearly 6 years... I started very young, and I do have SOME training... as I stated VERY early in this thread.. I help to train some of the youngers kids now in how to take bumps and stuff like that without hurting or killing themselves... But seriously, when did I ever say that what happened to Hayabusa was a good thing? The fact that he's paralized I mean... All I'm stating is that Hayabusa's injury has caused a LOT of people to look at things in a bigger light... look how trained he was... look how great he was... yet look what happened... It shows that no matter what kinda training you have, bad things can happen... how you took that as a personal jab at Hayabusa I have no clue... Just because I didn't say I liked him doesn't mean I hate him, and vice versa... I RESPECT him for the amount of popularity and respect he's EARNED throughout his career...

"A person with any humanity wouldn't say that about a person. "

I'd like to know what you're on about that...

"...it's NEVER a good thing when someone's life nearly ends."

Bull.... you know the rest of it.... Sometimes it literally takes something like that to wake people up from this dream to reality... Owen Hart, Darren Drozdov, Hayabusa, Steve Austin, and many more are living proof of this... well, aside from Owen, *** rest his soul...

Austin nearly broke his neck when Owen piledrove him and his head fell too far between his thighs... NOW people are aware of just how dangerous a simple Piledriver, a move perfected by Jerry Lawler and many others, can be...

Darren Drozdov was almost killed when D-Lo Brown tried a running powerbomb and slipped on an object thrown into the ring by a fan... NOW the fans realize what crap like that can cause...

Hayabusa, probably one of THE MOST EXPERIENCED wrestlers as far as doing moves like that (lets face it, I've heard him being called the Bruce Lee of Wrestling) is nearly killed after he botches a move that he does regularily... NOW... people see what can happen in less than a second, to ANYBODY, no matter how experienced... no matter how trained... no matter how careful...

Don't dare try and take comments like those and make me sound like a cold hearted individual... Until you know me, don't try and judge me... you'll always be wrong...

[jmiller]

Excellent point made, Kraze. I used to be a backyard wrestler and now I'm looking into training for the real thing. Hayabusa's near fatal incident isn't the first injury to open my eyes to the dangers of wrestling...consider what happened to Sid as well. (FYI, I thought it was the most sickening moment when AOL-Time Warner owned WCW showed Sid snapping his leg like that over and over, and then had the gall to make that an angle for Steiner to use.) If the wrestlers, bookers, promoters, etc. work together and see the whole picture of these strings of injuries over the past few years, then perhaps wrestling could be just that much more safer for the wrestlers to keep doing what they do night after night. It's truly sad that Hayabusa's injury has to be yet another reality check to everyone about the dangers of professional wrestling.

Somewhat off-topic side note: Being that I'm an Onita fan and seeing that he wants back into FMW, I hope that he does come back and perhaps bring about some wisdom and persue a safe working environment for wrestlers in FMW.

[eijiezaki24]

I find it hard to believe when you say he's one of your favorites, yet admit to never actually watching one of his matches... Sounds like another one of the "I wasn't a mark but now I am cause he's hurt" type of people...[/quote]
...I said I never saw one of his matches in person, idiot, how could you not undersdtand that after i said i've seen many of his matches? I even noted how good the Hayabusa/ Shinzaki v RVD/ Sabu match was at Heatwave 98'. And NO, having thousands of people die is NOT a good thing, any way you look at it. It may be a wake up call, but it's not good you fool. Your sounding like aceldama! I don't care if people finally realize that we're not invulnerable. If there were no peple like Bin Laden and such, we wouldn't need that realization...yet I will have to agree with you on one thing...some people are too patriotic, especially people who just completely didn't care before.

[eijiezaki24]

Hey BAHU, remember me? If you don't it doesn't matter. Anyway, let's stop picking on each other and analyzing every single little phrase. Let's talk about Hayabusa...in case you hadn't noticed, the board is about him. I just thought I'd like to mention that. I'm sorry, I actually was "giving an example" but obviously I wrote it wrong. I'm glad to see that somebody was able to see that I wasn't ignorant enough to compare an injury to one man, who accepts the responsibility of his injuries, and the slaughtering of thousands of inoccent people, each as significant as Eiji Ezaki, although not as recognizable, on such a magnitude. And thank you, Gouki, for supporting me as well...remember, it's about Hayabusa, not patriotism, criticism, Canadian pilots, or terrorism.

[The KraZe]

Time for another one of my "flashbacks"...

"...I am not new to Hayabusa's work in the ring. I've been a fan of his for many years, and although I've never actually seen him in a match, he is by far my favorite wrestler. He is one of the most talented hardcore wrestlers out there. Ever seen Hayabusa & Shinzaki vs. RVS & Sabu at ECW Heatwave 98'! That was an awesome match!"

That was in your original post... now let me pick apart your most recent one...

"...I said I never saw one of his matches in person, idiot, how could you not undersdtand that after i said i've seen many of his matches?"

Actually, you said you were firmiliar with his work, not that you'd seen "many of his matches"...

"I even noted how good the Hayabusa/ Shinzaki v RVD/ Sabu match was at Heatwave 98'"

So did I... I downloaded it, at least some clips of it... what about you? See what I'm getting at?

"And NO, having thousands of people die is NOT a good thing, any way you look at it. It may be a wake up call, but it's not good you fool."

ANY wake up call is good you fool... that's why they're called "Wake up calls" Have you ever had someone lock you into a headlock, then ram your head run into a locker playfully, resulting in temporary paralisis for about 30+ minutes? I have... that was a wake up call to me... Ever had you legs amputated at the age of 12? I did... that was DEFINATELY a wake up call to me... Because of those two instances, I learned two things respectively.. 1) Don't muck around with wrestling moves, no matter how trained you are... 2) Never underestimate life... treat it as a gift, not a right.


"I don't care if people finally realize that we're not invulnerable."

At least you can admit it... good for you...

"If there were no peple like Bin Laden and such, we wouldn't need that realization..."

If there were no people like Bin Laden, I'm pretty sure we'd be living in a Utopia, do you not agree?

"yet I will have to agree with you on one thing...some people are too patriotic, especially people who just completely didn't care before."

At least some American's (I'm assuming..) can admit their faults... thank you for that much...

[aceldama]

Some people say weird stuff, myself included. So my turn to look at all of it again. Sorry that I was gone for a while. I know you missed me. Now, I will start by saying that those who want to analyze my replies will have a good chance to tear me apart, becuase when I quote people in this, I won't go back and put in their quote. I will paraphrase. Too much work otherwise.

To the person who said he was a backyard wrestler and "a really good one," and safe, I had to laugh. Of course you think you are good. Why would you think otherwise about yourself? And naturally you think you are safe. Only bottom rung backyard wrestlers would say "I'm not safe when I do it. I just go out and do whatever."... every backyard wrestler that thinks they are doing something worth their time is going to personally think they are safe.

Someone later said something to the effect about what the world woudl be like without bin Laden in it. If you had a world without bin Laden in it, you would still have a "bin Laden" in the world. It's relative, folks. If it wasn't him, it would just be some other terrorist that is the worse threat to the world.

To the person who said that I was coldhearted, selfish, a maggot, and some other words meant to be negative, it doesn't bother me that you think that. I think of myself more as a realist. People die. Get over it. I can't stand people who get so emotional over someones death or tragic events, to an extent. For example, since it was brought up, how could anyone still have been depressed 2 days after the WTC went down? It was time to go on with your lives. I am not saying to forget it happened, but no reason to have 24 hour news on it, people crying on tv, people asking "why, oh why!" between tears. There was no rational reason for anyone to still be crying 2-3 days after it happened (to cut off what someone will respond back with, I do/did have a semi-attachment to the events in the WTC, as a cousin I was close to was in One World Trade Center when it happened. oh well. people die).

Also, the same person that thinks the above, in regards to me being selfish, a maggot, etc etc, said something along the lines of Hayabusa training hard and perfecting his moves and being a professional. If anything, this makes it worse. Accidents do happen with the most common of instances, yes, and that is what happened here. But, his years of doing the higher risk stuff still is what left an impression on the majority of fans, and this is what they would emulate. It doesn't matter how he got hurt, because most fans won't remember him for some run-of-the-mill move, regardless if it is the one that did it. So, when I say that its good for him to be out of wrestling, I was referencing more down the line, and implying that he can't corrupt more people to try the more edgier spots. Yeah, there are more people out there who do it, but again, I'm just talking about Hayabusa because of his following.

Three wrestlers were brought up asking if I thought it woudl be better off with them being dead, so I will talk abouut them. Sabu is better off dead, yes. The world would be better off without him. Mick Foley is not better off dead because he is a posterboy of what the style will do to you. It funks you up. Jeff Hardy is far from influential on anyone outside the 7 people who get a boner over OMEGA. I don't wish him dead, but I woudln't hate him out of wrestling, in relations to him being an influence. Though, even saying this stuff, for the record, I love Mick and Jeff's matches (can't stand Sabu, but who can? The guy hasn't had a good match since 1996, when even then he had to have his opponents carry him to a good match). doesn't change my view on thier influences.

Anyway, what it comes down to is that my opinion is just based on what I see as being reality and not my being selfish or heartless or pathetic. It just is the only thing that makes sense.

And, let me make it clear also that, what I basically meant in my earlier posts was that I wouldn't mind if he died, but the opposite is true as well. I don't mind that he is recovering. I woudln't even directly mind if he ever wrestled again, though I wouldn't support it. But, thats just a realist talking.

[The KraZe]

To save yourself a lot of trouble, you should have just said flat out that you don't care... Obviously that's the kind of human being you set yourself up as... You lose a cousin in a horrible terrorist act, and you aren't upset? That's weird... My first reaction to that is that either you're REALLY young, and just don't give a crap about life itself, or... you just don't care about others lives... you choose...

[eijiezaki24]

why are people stioll picking each other apart? This board is about Hayabusa. I don't care if you don't mind your cousin being pulverized by a 110-story building. Idon't care if you have no legs, and you let yourself be slammed into a locker. Idon't care about your very wrong opinions about Sabu, Mick Foley, and Jeff Hardy. I don't even care if your Canadian! Just shut up and stop whining about each other. If your not here to talk about Hayabusa, then go to a different board. I don't want any further corruption of this board. Please, if your here, talk about Hayabusa. If you don't want to, then make your own board. It sickens me how people who don't know each other can be so violent and cruel to one another. Please, just stop the nonsense posts. Don't analyze everything people say, it's ridiculus. What, you can't think of anything to say so you quote people and yell at them? Get out of here if that's who you are, please.