Concussion litigation has hit pro wrestling, as two former WWE wrestlers have sued the organization for “subject[ing] its wrestlers to extreme physical brutality that it knew, or should have known, caused latent conditions and long-term irreversible bodily damage, including brain damage.”

Both 50-year-old Vito LoGrasso (aka Skull Von Krush or Big Vito) and 22-year-old Evan Singleton (aka Adam Mercer) have called the league out, saying it is "selling violence" at the price of head safety and that they both are suffering the consequences. LoGrasso, who spent nearly ten years with the organization, says he now struggles with migraines, memory loss, depression, and deafness. Singleton, who performed from 2012 (when he was 19) until 2013, is disabled because of brain injury he suffered early in his career.

The suit describes specific tricks used in WWE that target the head specifically, calling them “a recipe for disaster — and widespread, long-term brain damage.” It also says the organization downplayed head injuries’ severity and discouraged Singleton from seeing a neurologist. The men say that two former WWE performers were found to have suffered from CTE after their deaths, and 13 active and retired performers had committed suicide in the last 10 years.

This is just the latest in a long string of athletic associations who are paying the price for past actions or inactions with regards to head injury. Let’s hope that this newest lawsuit will effect changes in WWE so that future wrestlers and their heads will be safer.

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