«Three weeks in a row» and one week off is starting to catch up with a former wrestling superstar.
«Million Dollar Man» Ted DiBiase said his days in what was then the World Wrestling Federation, now World Wrestling Entertainment, caused him «severe brain trauma.»
DiBiase says that he has not been given an official diagnosis, but has been experiencing memory loss.
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«I’m dealing with this, this is legit. I don’t have Alzheimer’s or dementia. But they said, ‘Ted, you have something. We just call it major brain trauma,'» DiBiase said. he said on the «Everybody’s Got a Pod» podcast.
«It’s my memory that’s affected, and they say it’s going to be easier to remember something you did 40 or 50 years ago, but short-term memory, some of the things right now, are fragments.»
DiBiase admitted that he was surprised by the diagnosis considering he «only wrestled for almost 20 years.» He said that he thought he «might have a little brain trauma.»
Wrestlers’ schedules are grueling, and DiBiase described them on the podcast.
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«Until I went to the WWF, and even then, when I started with them, it was three weeks straight, 21 days, 21 cities, and then you go home for a week,» he recalled. «Then eventually they changed it to 10 on, three off, four on and three off, so you were home a little bit more. But then again, thank God I’m still here.»
DiBiase was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2010.
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He also spent time in the NWA, All-Japan Pro Wrestling, and WCW.