Big Cass recently appeared on Booker T’s podcast. Here are highlights from the appearance:

How his recovery is going:  “I’m doing good. Just in the process of recovering right now from an ACL injury. Kind of just have a lot of time to myself but I’m doing really good and I’m on schedule to come back when the doctor’s think I’ll be back. So, I’m just rehabbing every day and trying to get back as soon as possible.”

First thing he thought of when he knew he was injured:  “I tweaked it on the way out of the ring and then it kind of curled under me when I landed on the floor. I heard it pop, I felt it pop and I immediately knew that I had torn my ACL. My brain told me, “You just tore your ACL.” Just from everything I’ve heard and everything I’ve seen about ACL tears I kind of knew right away. Then, I tried getting up and back in the ring and I kind of couldn’t really walk on it but I slid back in the ring and continued. The ref checked on me because he knew something was up and I told him, “I think I can go. I think I can finish the match.” So, I knew my knee was torn but your first instinct is always, “I’ve got to keep going if you can possibly go.” I’m obviously, visibly hurt. I am hobbling and I slammed Enzo into the ground and then I went for the elbow off my left leg. I always do my elbow off my left leg and my leg just went out. The ref came over to me and said, “Roll over, get out of the ring.” It’s frustrating when your brain is telling you to do something and your body won’t let you. That’s the most frustrating thing. I knew when I landed I had torn my ACL. Just from everything I had heard and read, I knew right away.”

You can listen to the podcast here.

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Edge and Christian open today’s show by sending their prayers and best wishes to the family and friends of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan, who passed away recently. Christian believes that Heenan is the best Manager of all time, and one of the greatest entertainers in the history of professional wrestling. Edge agrees and says he was heartbroken when he heard the news. He adds that Heenan could get anyone over, and he was truly one of a kind.

Edge and Christian welcome John Cena to the show.

Edge informs that he and Cena worked so well together that they began referring to each other as ‘shoe’. It was a nickname based on the saying that an old shoe always fits comfortably, because their chemistry in the ring always allowed them to pair up after months apart and effortlessly put on great matches.

Cena speaks fondly about the TLC match he had with Edge in 2006. He says the electricity in the building that night was incredible and it was so cool to be a part of. Edge says his and Cena’s parents actually sat together in the audience that night, watching their sons go to war in a TLC match. Edge admits that his emotions got the better of him on that night.

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Lawler is joined on today’s show by his co-host Glenn Moore.

Lawler opens today’s show speaking about the passing of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan. Lawler was devastated to hear the news of Heenan’s passing over the weekend, and he says there’ll never be anyone like Heenan ever again. He considers the pairing of Heenan and Gorilla Monsoon to be the greatest commentary team of all time.

He mentions that Heenan was the one who personally introduced him to the WWE Universe, and he knew he was in for a good run when Heenan was chosen as the choice to introduce him. Lawler says it’s terrible that Heenan had so many health issues over the last decade, and it was particularly cruel that he was stricken with throat cancer given that he spent so many years entertaining people with his voice.

Moore points out that WWE announced they’ll be promoting a show under the Starrcade banner soon, and Lawler says he actually doesn’t remember anything about Starrcade. He never saw any of those shows from back in the day because he and all the other WWE employees were so involved in their own thing during the Monday Night Wars that they didn’t have time to watch what WCW was doing.

Moore asks Lawler if McMahon is hesitant to use former WCW PPV names, since we haven’t really seen much of it at all since WWE bought WCW back in 2002. Lawler doesn’t think McMahon is hesitant to use those names at all, and when the time is right, he has proven that he doesn’t mind bringing back old WCW PPVs.

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Russo is joined on today’s show by Big Vito.

Russo opens today’s show by sending his prayers and best wishes to the family and friends of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan, who passed away on Sunday. Russo says that Heenan is undoubtably one of the greatest Managers, announcers, and on-screen personalities of all time, and he will be sorely missed.

Russo recalls working with Heenan during his time in WCW. He says that at that time, there were some rumblings backstage that Heenan’s drinking was beginning to affect his performance on screen, and people were starting to call for his job. Russo went to bat for Heenan in those discussions but shortly after Russo was sent home, Heenan was replaced at the commentary booth by Mark Madden.

For a long period of time Heenan had heat with Russo because he was under the impression that Russo was the reason he was let go from WCW. In reality, Russo wasn’t even present within the company at that time. Years later, Russo wanted to bury the hatchet with Heenan and make it known to him that he wasn’t the reason Heenan was let go from WCW.

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Taz opens today’s show speaking about the passing of Bobby ‘The Brain’ Heenan.

Taz says that Heenan was a trailblazer for many people in the business of professional wrestling. He was a trendsetter who revolutionized several different aspects of the business. Taz adds that he didn’t work with Heenan frequently, but every time he interacted with Heenan it was easy to see that the character we saw on our television screens was simply him in real life.

Heenan was one of the only people who Taz was legitimately nervous to meet when he got into the wrestling business. Heenan was one of Taz’s biggest influences, especially when it came to the commentating side of his career, so he was very nervous to meet him. Not surprisingly, Heenan was a pleasure to deal with and if you met him once, it was almost as if you knew him your whole life.

Taz says that Heenan was the best Manager of all time, and he’s undoubtably one of the best commentators of all time as well. He concludes by saying he just wishes he knew Heenan better than he did. He sends his love, thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of Heenan, and he dedicates this show to the memory of Heenan.

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WWE issued the following statement regarding the passing of Bobby Heenan:

WWE Hall of Famer Bobby “The Brain” Heenan passes away

WWE is saddened to learn that WWE Hall of Famer Bobby Heenan, regarded by many as the greatest manager in sports-entertainment history, has passed away at age 73.

With a career spanning more than four decades, Heenan was the “The Brain” behind some of the most prolific Superstars in sports-entertainment history. Heenan plied his trade as their mischievous manager by running his mouth on their behalf with a sarcastic wit considered among the best in the business.

Heenan named competitors under his guidance as the Heenan Family, a moniker meant to show the strength of their alliance over any opposition. Members of the Heenan Family in the AWA and WWE read like the who’s who of sports-entertainment, including Legends and WWE Hall of Famers such as Nick Bockwinkel, the Blackjacks, Big John Studd, King Kong Bundy, “Ravishing” Rick Rude, “Mr. Perfect” Curt Hennig, the Brain Busters (Arn Anderson and Tully Blanchard), Harley Race, and of course, the first WWE Hall of Famer, Andre the Giant, whom Heenan led to the ring at WrestleMania III before 93,173 fans.

As impossible as it may seem, Heenan’s overwhelming success as a manager was matched by that of his announcing career. Heenan’s constant verbal jousts with fellow WWE Hall of Famers Gorilla Monsoon and “Mean” Gene Okerlund on USA Network remain among the most memorable moments in sports-entertainment history. In fact, “The Brain” was so entertaining that “The Bobby Heenan Show” had a brief run on USA Network as well.

In addition, “The Brain” was part of the original broadcast team for Monday Night Raw in 1993, and also sat at the announce table for both Raw and WCW Monday Nitro.

WWE extends its condolences to Heenan’s family, friends and fans.

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Recently, Daniel Bryan appeared on E&C’s Pod of Awesomeness hosted by former World Champions, Edge and Christian. Interestingly enough, Bryan revealed tons of details regarding his retirement from last year.

Bryan revealed that he was originally cleared by his own doctor but WWE made a decision to send him to two more doctors who were of their choosing. However, Bryan was cleared by these two doctors as well.

Afterwards, WWE sent him to Los Angeles for some ‘experimental testing’ which apparently showed that Bryan had a lesion in his brain. Following this, Vince McMahon forced Bryan to write up a retirement speech, which he did after being convinced by the WWE that it was indeed for the best.

Post-retirement, Bryan was asked by one of the doctors who cleared him about the reason behind his retirement. Hence, Bryan let him know that it was because of the lesion that was found in his brain. The doctor, however, told him that the term lesion was very “vague” and that it only meant that something  “may” be there.

He also revealed that the tests indicated that his reflexes were comparatively slower than that of the other athletes, though they were still faster than that of an average man. Furthermore, he revealed that upon testing his brain looked like that of a college football player and his time off from wrestling had healed it to the point that it looked like the brain of an average person who has had no history of head trauma.

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