In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall interviewed former WWF/AEA star Jim Brunzell from The Killer Bees tag team. We have a couple of highlights transcribed below and be sure to click on the videos below for the entire interview.
Jim Brunzell on being in a Battle Royal with NFL players at WrestleMania II:
“Everything was more or less choreographed. I don’t know what the insurance deal was. I mean, some of them were concerned about if they should get hurt, who’s going to pay for it. To me, I was just glad I was a part of WrestleMania, you know, the fact that we were in a Battle Royal with these guys. I would much rather be in a tag match or something else but if you want to be included, and that’s where you are, then you go with it.”
Jim Brunzell was asked about the class action lawsuit he and other wrestlers filed against the WWE regarding concussion protocol. The lawsuit was dismissed by US District Judge Vanessa Lynne Bryant in September 2018 but Bruzell says he would like to resurrect it.
“Here’s the whole premise of the lawsuit,” Brunzell said. “The fact that a number of us sustained head injuries, whether it be concussions, knocked out, etc, you know, over our career with the WWE. What the lawsuit said was if individuals, like if Jim Brunzell winds up with early dementia, or you know, Alzheimer’s or ALS or something related to CTE, and you can’t find out if you have CTE until you’re dead when they cut your brain open, in this lawsuit, what they wanted the WWE to pay for our treatment in a nursing home. That’s basically what it was. There was no upfront money. It was basically saying, hey, if Jim Brunzell has Alzheimer’s or dementia and he’s got to go into assisted living, we’d like WWE to contribute. It’s $12- $15,000 a month to be in those. There were 50 to 60 members, talent, on this lawsuit that all had some impaired injury over the course of 15 to 20 years, so I hope that they resurrect that sucker because I think that’s the least that we can expect from the WWE.”
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