In an interview with Wrestling Inc, former WWE physician Frank Romascavage, who labored there from 1993-2006, spoke about treating Mick Foley after his Hell in a Cell fall at King of the Ring 1998. Listed here are highlights:
On treating Foley after his fall: “I used to be there that night time. That was an unbelievable occasion. Right here’s Undertaker, he’s 7’0”, and he places his massive proper hand up there, and there’s Foley up prime of his arm and guess what occurs? He goes down 10 toes after which one other 10 toes, so he goes down 17 – 20 toes straight down. The man was severely damage. I sewed his complete mouth up. He’s bleeding, a pair tooth by his nostril. What occurred after that, I used to be within the ring. You’ll see me in that match. I’m within the ring there, and Mick, he obtained beat up. He was hurting massive time. I stated, ‘Mick, come on. We’re gonna get you thru this.’ I took him within the again within the locker room again there. Enamel by, the entire bit there. We obtained the tooth on ice, sewed up his mouth for him, and he laid there. I stated, ‘I’m going to stitch you up actual fast.’ I used to be an ER physician so stitching up mouths and all that, I’ve carried out it many, many occasions all through my medical profession. So what occurred is is I sewed him up. The tooth, we put them on ice. The most effective irony of the entire state of affairs is should you ever get caught, and I inform this to about all my sufferers right here at my follow, the place you probably have an acute dental drawback and also you’re close to Pittsburgh, you couldn’t be in a greater place. College of Pittsburgh has a 24/7 on-call orthodontic dental kind program. I referred to as up the dentists or the dental orthodontic man, whoever was on name, and I stated, ‘Do you want wrestling?’ He says, ‘I like wrestling.’ I stated, ‘Nicely, tonight I’m gonna make your night time. I’ve Mick Foley over right here. He’s obtained his tooth. I need you to place these tooth again the place they belong,’ and he did, so I despatched him over the dental faculty. I sewed up his complete mouth, and he went proper over to the dental faculty. He fastened him up.”
On if there was hesitation to ship Foley again out for the principle occasion: “No, however it’s a must to perceive one factor, these guys are excellent athletes and personalities in relation to the way it needs to be. Mick, I do know him very, very nicely. We turned, clearly, nice buddies after that. I obtained carried out stitching his mouth up. I neglect what number of stitches. I put a bunch in his mouth. In reality, should you learn his ebook, he’ll in all probability inform you what number of I did put in his mouth. Anyway, regardless of the lag time was, he did go over shortly thereafter, and guess what occurred? The man put his tooth in for him. He stunned everyone by going again out, however he did. That’s how he’s.”
On if he ever needed to inform a wrestler they couldn’t carry out on account of damage: “I can’t consider a precise state of affairs the place that might have been apropos. I by no means needed to sit any person down and say, ‘no, you may’t do it.’ I’d see folks, they damage their knee actual dangerous. They might have been to an orthopedic man someplace. If I see any person that obtained damage in a match, you’d speak to them to see how they go. I’d carry on them each day by speaking to them over the cellphone. It wasn’t a kind of kind of relationships. Be sure that they had been good and in the event that they weren’t good, you be sure they went to see any person. We at all times had everyone’s greatest curiosity. If there was a selected kind of drawback, we get them to the proper specialist.”
