CazXL Still Pulling Locker Room Bullshit

Cass needs more help
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When CazXL, the former Colin "Big Cass" Cassady, was last in the news, he was posting a heartfelt plea for everyone to root for him because he was battling depression. It was a noble plea, to be honest, and no one should have to suffer from depression. I know, I suffer from it. That being said, some folks were ready to use it as a clean-slate for him for shit he's done in the past. Honestly, depressed or not, it doesn't cause nor excuse behavior like stalking an ex-girlfriend the way he did Carmella in his final days in WWE. It's the same thing as CTE. You can use it to explain away a lot of things, but CTE didn't make Chris Benoit kill his family. Benoit did. CTE just made it easier for him to act on it. It's the same with depression. You can feel its heel crushing you, but at the end of the day, if you lash out at people who don't deserve it, well, depression didn't make you do it.

So it's both not surprising but disheartening to see that CazXL had a whole episode at this weekend's WrestlePro show. It makes sense that CazXL would have residual bad feelings with fellow WP bookee Joey Janela, given the Bad Boy got into it with the former Cass' boy. According to this report from WrestleZone, Cass not only confronted Janela, but he went into the locker room of outgoing WP booker and incoming WWE producer Pat Buck and started accusing him and SoCal Uncensored of stealing his things. Buck, who isn't just a body guy, apparently, knocked CazXL out. Upon arrival to the scene, the police saw him and had an ambulance take him to the hospital.

It's not good to see that Cass hasn't really learned anything even after stepping away for a frightfully short amount of time he took off to take care of his mental health issues. It's clear he hasn't rehabbed or else he wouldn't have picked a fight with Janela or accused someone of stealing things without any proof. He was taken to the right place even if I question whether the cops had the right to do it. Then again, if Cass were black, I wonder if he'd still be alive right now. But I digress.

Being as combative as he is in a business where you have to be cooperative isn't something you can excuse completely. The depression may have been lubrication for him to act out, but he's also got to reconcile with himself that he has issues to work out with interpersonal relationships. You don't go around at your bookings and just start shit with everyone you can find. At the very least, you'll end up instigating yourself out of bookings, period. He needs help, yes, but he needs to be serious about taking that help. He can't just yes his way through therapy and plot which asshole has a slap to the face coming to him at the next show. I don't want to seem cold, but it's hard to look at what he's doing with the goodwill he borrowed back and think his tragedy isn't partially self-caused. I hope he gets better, mind you. I just hope that he is the one who wants to get better. Maybe he should start by not hanging around with nZo anymore.