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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 9, 2021 19:27:05 GMT -5
Some more info on his passing from the Observer: "Huber was first hospitalized in Tampa when his lungs stopped working for reasons that still aren’t clear. The fact he was tested more than a dozen times for COVID-19, shows that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic were looking for that to be the reason. But every test came up negative, including for antibodies which would show if he somehow previously had it and it slipped through the cracks. He was being tested by AEW every time he came to television, which would mean sometimes weekly, and other times every other week. AEW, and in specific, Megha Parekh, the Senior Vice President and Chief Legal officer for both the Jacksonville Jaguars and AEW, as well as the Khan family’s General Counsel, were able to get him moved, via airlift, from the hospital in Tampa, where the family lived, to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville on 10/31. The treatment at the Mayo Clinic was top-notch but also very expensive so a lot of strings had to be pulled. The diagnosis by that time was bleak, and while the odds were always strongly against him, there was hope the Mayo Clinic could save him. Amanda Huber informed those in the company on 11/7, so all the key people that worked with him knew. She asked everyone to keep it quiet. He didn’t want the information out and she didn’t want rumors to spread, so everyone kept it quiet. Jon Huber would have needed a lung transplant. He would need to get on the list, qualify, and get a donor and the lungs needed to be fit for size. With him being 6-foot-5 and 275 pounds, that made things more complicated. He would then have to live his life heavily immunocompromised and take a lot of anti-rejection drugs. But he never got healthy enough to qualify for a lung transplant. For those in the company, it had been two straight months where they knew the end result was likely inevitable." I can't imagine how painful that was for everyone involved to know what was likely coming and being unable to stop it. Props to everyone for knowing all of that and keeping it hidden and still being able to go out there and perform. Major props to Tony for using his influence to get Jon airlifted and at Mayo clinic (yes the article mentions Megha Parekh, but stuff like this is influenced from the very top)
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Post by Perpetual Nirvana on Jan 10, 2021 16:17:28 GMT -5
If people weren't scummy enough, apparently there are bootleg Brodie tribute shirts floating around so be careful.
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Post by chrom on Jan 10, 2021 16:19:28 GMT -5
And AEW really wasnt kidding around , for then to pull string to get Brodie into the top hospital of the world,and not even that was enough. Just sadly goes to show there's only so much can be done
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Post by Mozenrath on Jan 10, 2021 16:30:25 GMT -5
Between Jon Huber and Chadwick Boseman, those folks had some incredibly tight-lipped inner circles. I don't know how many people within Chadwick's orbit knew about his cancer, but for an industry as infamously loose-lipped as pro wrestling, I'm almost impressed at how nothing but vague rumors about him being sick came out about Brodie. Yeah, wrestlers have been as much awe of it as anyone else that people managed to keep it quiet.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jan 10, 2021 16:31:24 GMT -5
And AEW really wasnt kidding around , for then to pull string to get Brodie into the top hospital of the world,and not even that was enough. Just sadly goes to show there's only so much can be done It's terrifying that a man in the prime of his life, in peak physical condition, can go from being perfectly healthy to dying from lung failure and some of the top medical professionals in the world were both unable to prevent it nor had any real idea how it happened.
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 10, 2021 17:12:12 GMT -5
usually only listen to Deadlock on Mondays, gonna have to add this to tomorrow's to-do list
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Post by Dave the Dave on Jan 10, 2021 23:04:26 GMT -5
Man, I forgot how much I loved him coming out to Cash’s “God gonna cut you down” in Chikara.
Someone should steal that ASAP
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Post by Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast on Jan 11, 2021 13:41:36 GMT -5
New Day's episode is live
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Post by ayumidah on Jan 11, 2021 16:02:33 GMT -5
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Post by Pipe_Bomb2k13 on Jan 12, 2021 12:47:28 GMT -5
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Post by Beets by Schrute on Jan 12, 2021 13:21:19 GMT -5
I never thought I would see Randy Orton crying
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Post by Deleted on Jan 12, 2021 14:10:45 GMT -5
Here's the full video podcast episode with New Day on Huber featuring Rowan, Cesaro and Breeze. WWE put it up on the official channel.
I teared up watching this.
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Post by A damn road sign on Jan 12, 2021 16:06:55 GMT -5
Awesome.
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Post by 67 more on Jan 13, 2021 15:24:05 GMT -5
Finally getting around to watching the Brodie Lee AEW tribute show, this hurts.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Jan 14, 2021 17:27:57 GMT -5
It must have really hard for Bray to even do this
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Jan 15, 2021 16:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by eJm on Jan 15, 2021 19:58:18 GMT -5
Not going to post them here and I don’t encourage anyone to do so but Ringside News are right now showing why they aren’t a trusted news source around these parts concerning anything but their stuff with Brodie is another level scummy.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jan 15, 2021 20:12:30 GMT -5
Not going to post them here and I don’t encourage anyone to do so but Ringside News are right now showing why they aren’t a trusted news source around these parts concerning anything but their stuff with Brodie is another level scummy. The dirtsheets didn't learn anything from Bruce Mitchell, I see.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 16, 2021 4:51:30 GMT -5
So apparently Ringside News published a story quoting Meltzer that Brodie had pre-existing lung damage and Amanda went at them hard and said it wasn't true, and this was apparently their response, just throwing Dave under the bus and not apologizing for not doing any research or spreading the story:
Meltzer also comes off bad here but Ringside News absolutely showed their full ass.
A man is dead, his lungs stopped working, that's what we know. If the family wants to ever make an official statement let them. This makes the dirtsheets look incredibly irresponsable and tone deaf like they're looking for something that isn't there. It sucks Amanda has to deal with any of this shit.
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Post by polarbearpete on Jan 16, 2021 9:44:08 GMT -5
So apparently Ringside News published a story quoting Meltzer that Brodie had pre-existing lung damage and Amanda went at them hard and said it wasn't true, and this was apparently their response, just throwing Dave under the bus and not apologizing for not doing any research or spreading the story: Meltzer also comes off bad here but Ringside News absolutely showed their full ass. A man is dead, his lungs stopped working, that's what we know. If the family wants to ever make an official statement let them. This makes the dirtsheets look incredibly irresponsable and tone deaf like they're looking for something that isn't there. It sucks Amanda has to deal with any of this shit. Surprised Meltzer would report that without verifying/clearing it with Brodie’s wife.
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