Follow-Up: CazXL Doesn't Remember

CazXL needs more help than he let on
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So yesterday, I let y'all know that CazXL/Big Cass was combative backstage at the WrestlePro show this past weekend, not just with Joey Janela, but also with Pat Buck. As it turns out, there's more to the story. Apparently, after getting knocked to the ground by Buck, Cass asked him why Buck had hit him, and it wasn't a statement of disbelief. According to reports, he didn't remember much about the incidents the next day.

The short-term memory loss can be explained away with two reasons, neither of them good. Either it's a symptom of head trauma or he was under the influence. Both are likely, given that the former is a consequence of his profession, and the latter is something he admitted to needing to get under control. Either way, it shows he needs to stay away from the business for a long enough time to get his life back under his own control, ESPECIALLY if it's substance abuse. It's at that point where instead of talking to him to come back to NXT that Paul Levesque and Vince McMahon should maybe be looking into putting Cass in rehab.

The more and more that comes out about Cass, the more readily apparent it is that the dude is not well. At this point, promoters and bookers who take him on their card are complicit in his downward spiral. He's gotta get out of the wrestling business, at least temporarily, and he shouldn't return until he's well. If that's in a month, a year, or never, well, that's up to him. But he has to get right. Whatever's in his envelope isn't worth the early grave. Look, I know he's not the most popular guy in wrestling, but that doesn't mean he deserves to die early. He's gotta get help, and honestly, if McMahon and Levesque don't get it to him, it's at least partially on them.