Colorado Avalanche: Facing Concussions in Modern Hockey
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THE WRESTLER:
Chris Nowinski was a former football player at Harvard. However, he is better known as a wrestler in the WWE.
Chris Nowinski had a short-lived alliance with a group named Regal. He also had a legendary who beef with Spike Dudley, and he later got into it with that punk Tommy Dreamer.He looked to be making a superstar career in wrestling.
Then Chris Nowinski got kicked in the chin during a match, and everything changed after that. As he told CNN.com:
"“I realized when I was visiting a lot of doctors, they weren’t giving me very good answers about what was wrong with my head. I read [every study I could find] and I realized there was a ton of evidence showing concussions lead to depression, and multiple concussion can lead to Alzheimer’s.”"
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