Rikishi Reacts to Steve Austin’s CTE Comments, Understands Where Austin Is Coming From

As noted , WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin made some controversial statements during one of his interview segments for the Mr.

McMahon docuseries, claiming that he doesnt believe in CTE, and, Im not a CTE guy.

Just dont believe in it.

WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi spoke about Austins recent comments on Off the Top podcast, and Rikishi reasoned that while he does believe in CTE and concussion trauma, he relates to where Austin is coming from.

Below are some highlights of Rikishis comments (via Fightful ): Rikishi on the old-school mentality in wrestling: I mean, aint the part of the game? Be it in football or any full-contact sports? We get hurt, man.

But when you come from the old-school...I dont even know or remember did I ever get a concussion, and if I did, back in the day, Id just shake it off and keep going because out of sight, out of mind means no paycheck on the weekly.

Youre already mentally prepared to put your body through it.

If it takes me I guess getting a concussion and keep going to get that paycheck to feed my family and put food on the table, were talking 25 something years ago, Im talking about 30 dollars a payday, a match.

So I might have got a concussion before I got to WWE and didnt know it.

But I feel great.

Im sure if I did have a concussion, I would damn sure notice by now.

On understanding where Austin was coming from: We come from that old school, so I kind of relate to what Steve was talking about.

Now, I cant say I dont believe in it because I do believe injuries.

If its a concussion, youre gonna feel it, and weve seen a lot of NFL football players get hurt from these, and whoevers doing the study for this, I think its a good thing for the boys, to be able to know that somethings wrong with your brain, or this is the reason why Ive possibly been getting bad headaches or I just feel kind of tired on a normal day, when I feel like I shouldnt be tired.

But with people that want to examine a lot of the wrestlers, I dont see anything wrong with it.

Im not saying that Im not a believer.

Until I know a lot about it, then Ill be that person to be able to make my own choice.

On his uncles telling him not to tell WWE if he was hurt: So I kind of understand where Steves coming from.

When you get a chance at WWE, you got one shot and one shot only, and that one shot better count.

My uncles used to always tell us, When youre hurt, dont let the company know it.

Never understood why.

Then years, days, months go by, I start to understand because if you let them know, they gonna just take you out in the back, get rid of you, bring the next person in like that can run.

So it was bigger than us, man.

We were the sacrifice to make...to put food on the table.

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