Recently released WWE wrestler Mr. Kennedy (a/k/a Ken Anderson) posted two "hypothetical situations" regarding in-ring injuries on his website and then asked whether they warrant the "injury prone" label. "Well let's say that you're in a match in Italy standing on the apron during a ten man tag match, and a guy is supposed to come over and give you a little forearm which will cause you to drop to the floor, but INSTEAD, he decides to drop kick your ass into the 20th row, he virtually leg presses you off the apron, and you have a 'Matrix' like moment in your head where you see yourself flying backwards through the air.

"You clear the mats that line the floor outside the ring and because you're trying to protect your head from smashing into the guardrail, you stretch your right arm over your head. At the moment you make IMPACT with the concrete floor, your arm stretched out over your head and the sudden stop causes the tendon in your latissimus dorsi (or that big back muscle that you see on bodybuilders, ya know the ones that look like wings...) to SNAP in two and it coils up down your side to the point that's in line with your belly button." To read the second scenario and the full commentary, visit Ken-Kennedy.com.

Powell's POV: It's good to see Kennedy defending himself. I agree with his take that injuries can and do happen on a regular basis in the pro wrestling industry. He has had some bad luck and the two "hypothetical situations" he presents are solid defenses for his injuries. Did you catch the "Impact" mention? Sure, he capitalized some other words, but something tells me the Impact reference wasn't a coincidence.

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