Maven talks about WWE only covering injuries that occurred in the ring.
Plenty of WWE Superstars get hurt while wrestling. It isn't ballet (a physically taxing sport in its own right) after all. However, will WWE care for wrestlers that are injured outside of the squared circle? According to former WWE Superstar Maven, they won't. At least they didn't during his time as a WWE Superstar, that is.
During a recent YouTube video where he debunks or confirms several wrestling myths, the inaugural winner of WWE Tough Enough says that WWE had no problem covering surgeries for him when he was injured in the ring, but he doesn't believe that same courtesy would be extended to something that occurred on his time off. However, he also admits that he isn't fully aware of everything that was in his WWE contract.
"I kind of feel like an idiot admitting this, but you know, I'm going to be brutally honest, even if it makes me look bad. I don't know everything that was in my WWE contract," he said. "What I do know, however, is there was nobody that was going to get injured outside of the ring, and I'm not going to turn this wrestler in, but I do remember during my time someone getting injured while skiing, and this person sucked it up, waited to be actually at a show, and then put out that they were indeed injured. Why is that during my time? I don't know how it is nowadays, but during my time, the health insurance that we had only covered ring injuries. Now, what does that mean if I broke my arm and needed surgery in the ring, which I did, which I got, which was covered 100% by the WWE, no problem.
"If I was riding my motorcycle down the street, clipped a curb, flipped over, and broke the same elbow. I don't think my health insurance would have covered it. Was that clause in my contract? Hell, it might have been. And if I would have been smart, not a 24 year old imbecile, I probably would have read it, or had someone at least that knew contracts read it and tell me if it was in there. I've been wrong before. I just don't think it's today, but I'm led to believe that myth is true."
Read what Maven says at this link about the myth of the winner's purse in professional wrestling.
Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp recently interviewed Maven. Check out that full interview here.
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