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Vito Lograsso aka Big Vito, who is in the midst of a lawsuit against WWE alleging wrongdoing in regard to how they treated and educated their performers in regard to head-trauma related injuries posted the following statement on social media as well as sending it to PWInsider.com for publication:
"My thoughts on this week so far are something to talk about. People are now starting to get in the know on CTE. If it wasn't for this lawsuit, Daniel Bryan would be going to Wrestlemania. Who knows what would have happened if he kept wrestling. I am happy he will be OK. The fear on losing your spot is real. Are you hurt, NO. You keep going. It was the culture. All the people now sharing concussion stories. All the awareness. But a year ago, this lawsuit and everything about concussions, CTE, was laughed at, made fun of, thought it was a load of crap. Now, it is reality. The education you are getting now, but what about back then ? Now people want to step up and be spokesmen and help. No one could care or donated there time last year. They could care less. Glad I made this possible for all to see. I speak for me, the others and the guys not here no more. My wish is for this to settle and make this a great thing. Right now it's a pissing contest instead of working together. Make things right and go for the gold on this. Waste your money on fighting something that is true won't get you any votes. Just prolonges what will be. Do it classy and not as a must. -Merit- , is what we have, the facts are there. Daniel Bryan moves on to have a family and keep his head together, a real positive here. If not for me taking this on , who knows what would have been. #fightvitofight"
While Lograsso wrote that a year ago CTE was "thought to be a load of crap", it should be noted that in May 2013, WWE donated $1.2 million dollars to the Concussion Legacy Institute (at the time, known as The Sports Legacy Institute), the entity which discovered CTE and have since led the education and medical research into the disease. In November 2014, WWE's Paul "Triple H" Levesque was elected to the Institute's Board of Directors.
All of this happened well in advance to Lograsso and others filing their lawsuits against WWE in January 2015.
So, while there may be some who felt that way about CTE (although to be fair, Lograsso doesn't exactly make clear who "they" may be), history has shown that WWE, even before the lawsuits was filed, had not been one of them in recent years.
The lawsuit Lograsso and former WWE developmental talent Evan Singleton filed against the company was moved to the State of Connecticut and merged with additional lawsuits related to the head-trauma allegations against the company. The cases are still working their way through the system.
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