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SamuraiFoochs posted:I'd be shocked if he didn't. Seems like a no brainier. I'm sure his doctors encouraged it but this is America and anything that keeps you alive is usually very expensive.
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VJeff posted:Hot Take: Drop 'Roman Reigns' when he comes back and start calling him Joseph Anoai. The more I think about this, the more I love this idea. The "Roman Reigns" character has way too much baggage at this point, and that will always linger even after the big return pop. But if he beats this and comes back strong, they got a real chance to wipe the slate clean and present a new type of hero. "Hey, this is Joe Anoa'i, he's a cool tough guy, loving family man, loyal to his Shield buddies, and oh yeah, he loving beat cancer twice so you know he'll never back down from a fight. Do you wanna watch him kick some rear end?" Now that's a Top Guy babyface I can get behind, way more than the muddled, confused mess of Roman's previous writing and booking. If John Cena can get away with using his shoot name, then so can Joe.
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Benne posted:The more I think about this, the more I love this idea. The "Roman Reigns" character has way too much baggage at this point, and that will always linger even after the big return pop. But if he beats this and comes back strong, they got a real chance to wipe the slate clean and present a new type of hero. Plus I feel like that stretch when he was tagging with Dean and Dean was the real focus was probably a glimpse into Roman's real personality and it was super fun and organically over.
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Joe " The Roman" Anoa'i should go to Hollywood, like his cousin.
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Oct 24, 2018 13:05
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Roamin' Joe the travelin' cancer crusher
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Open Marriage Night posted:Obviously these posts will be mocked elsewhere on the forums, but gently caress em. If you feel the need to say anything, say it. I think even the most wretched sections of these forums are still in agreement that cancer is rear end, no matter which person having it is being discussed. Have there been any major disease-related deaths or retirements for younger wrestlers in their prime? I think about Jumbo Tsuruta with his Hepatitis, but he was no longer the ace in AJPW at that point. I'm drawing a blank. Is it because these are some of the fittest people on Earth (even the big, fat unathletic ones) or what?
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Dishwasher posted:I think even the most wretched sections of these forums are still in agreement that cancer is rear end, no matter which person having it is being discussed. Pillman? His heart issues were congenital.
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Oct 24, 2018 15:22
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They couldn't even keep from sweetening this up and it made it come off less genuine than it actually was. WWE truly cannot help themselves.
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HidaO-Win posted:Pillman? His heart issues were congenital. I'd forgotten about him! Still, that's the only 'other' one I recall. And Pillman and Jumbo were essentially done as serious in-ring competitors when they had their health issues. 2 (that I know of) is way, way below the average for regular people when you consider the number of people on major federation rosters. It seems promoters and wrestlers got lucky with something that is basically a major life dice roll until this. If it can happen to Roman, it can happen to everyone. No one is immune, not even the ace of the biggest company in Earth. Take care of yourselves and get your loving checkups.
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Oct 24, 2018 18:15
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HidaO-Win posted:Pillman? His heart issues were congenital. They were also exacerbated by his drug use, which is what killed him. About the closest parallel between Roman and another guy I can think of is Magnum TA, in that he was absolutely going to be the top face for the next decade, then the car crash happened and ended his career. And I'd rather not make that comparison because I want Roman to beat this thing.
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Dishwasher posted:I'd forgotten about him! Still, that's the only 'other' one I recall. And Pillman and Jumbo were essentially done as serious in-ring competitors when they had their health issues. 2 (that I know of) is way, way below the average for regular people when you consider the number of people on major federation rosters. It seems promoters and wrestlers got lucky with something that is basically a major life dice roll until this. If it can happen to Roman, it can happen to everyone. No one is immune, not even the ace of the biggest company in Earth. Take care of yourselves and get your loving checkups. I mean There’s lots of people that should have retired earlier What with the concussions and the broken necks and poo poo
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Sockser posted:I mean I meant diseases like cancer and hepatitis derailing careers. Things not a direct result of the lifestyle. Concussions and injuries definitely are a thing the industry needs to get in check. I'm shocked things like this don't happen more often considering the number of people who come and go through these federations and the colossal number of people fighting cancer and other random life-threatening ailments. If the stats were as favorable outside of wrestling feds, that'd be great. 
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Héctor Garza died of lung cancer at 43 and Thunder the Australian luchador in CMLL died at 35 of stomach cancer
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Aesop Poprock posted:My dad had stage 4 lymphoma when I was a kid, probably 4 or 5. Didn't really process it at the time except that he was gone and when I went to visit him at the hospital in Maryland he would play game boy games with me and I'd usually get a present. He at one point was essentially at death's bed when he was around 30 years old and had talked to my mom about moving on. Again, not something I knew about until I was an adult because I was shielded from it, but poo poo can be no joke. that level of recovery owns im glad your dad came back from that
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Oct 24, 2018 21:42
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Defiance Industries posted:I'm sure his doctors encouraged it but this is America and anything that keeps you alive is usually very expensive. I was told before I started my stem cell transplant that it would cost anywhere between $250,000 to $400,000. And that the hospital wouldn't do it if my insurance didn't pay for it.
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VJeff posted:They couldn't even keep from sweetening this up and it made it come off less genuine than it actually was. WWE truly cannot help themselves. I thought this was gonna be like a parody video or something but yeah they're really gonna go this route for publicity huh
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VJeff posted:Hot Take: Drop 'Roman Reigns' when he comes back and start calling him Joseph Anoai. Bring back Leakee, including the palm frond skirt thing he used to wear in FCW.
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Learned about this on Monday night after the Reigns announcement: https://twitter.com/courtbauer/status/1055124829370793991 Roman and Samu are cousins. Afa and Sika both have sons fighting Cancer.
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Oct 25, 2018 11:18
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rovert posted:Afa and Sika both have sons fighting Cancer.
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So Triple H and Stephanie were on the Elvis Duran Show and talked a little about Roman. Triple H on why Roman kept his previous battle with Leukemia under wraps:Triple H posted:This is something that—very few people know about this—he and I have spoken about this; this is something he did not want to put out there until he had reached a certain point it time in his career because he didn’t want people to feel like he was being pitied or given things for a certain reason. He wanted to be able to come out at the end and be like ‘Look, I dealt with this the whole time, you can do anything. This is not an end sentence.’ Stephanie on some of the pediatric cancer patients they visited last month made a video for Roman: Stephanie McMahon posted:As it relates to Roman, one of the things we did as a part of September, which is Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month, we had this whole campaign for Superstars Of Tomorrow where we visited children’s hospitals and these kids dressed up in their favorite Superstars’ persona or their own original Superstar persona. Our [WWE] Superstars actually come and we introduce them and it’s awesome, and we did integrations in Monday Night RAW. In Dallas in particular, we had this incredible group of kids that we really bonded with, and they created a video for Roman that I just watched, and it’s so powerful. It’s these little kids saying ‘we believe in you, Roman’ and keep fighting. It’s just that’s what life should really be about, it’s supporting one another and loving one another because we all have enough crap to deal with in our regular lives. It’s just a privilege to be a part of.
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Horrible Taste posted:So Triple H and Stephanie were on the Elvis Duran Show and talked a little about Roman. Triple H on why Roman kept his previous battle with Leukemia under wraps: That's literally beautiful and I will not have it besmirched.
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Didn't see the thread for this. I can't imagine the pain his family is going through. My grandma died of cancer around 5 years ago and the whole agonizing process nearly broke my mom in the end. I hope he beats this.
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Mel Mudkiper posted:surprised Stephanie didn't take credit for curing his Leukemia the first time
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