Welcome to the Busted Open After Dark podcast. I'm your host, Tommy Dreamer. The Chicago residency

continues and some news dropping of Will Osprey having to take time off for a injury, and I'm going to

talk about it right now. This is the Busted Open podcast. Will Osprey goes down uh basically announcing tonight uh that he has a

neck issue and which kind of then goes into pressing into his spine uh having two herniated discs. It sucks. And first off, I tell you,

Will, I've been there. I broke my neck. I wrestled for three to four months with a broken

neck and didn't know I broke my neck, continued to wrestle until one day

wrestling, and then I couldn't get up for real. And then my, I couldn't walk for a good three

days, so then eventually I do go get B MRI because I couldn't get out of bed and

you go and then the doctor says oh you have three herniated discs they are also going into your

spine and I was just like and he's like oh your body's healing wrong. And how is it healing wrong?

Because you broke your neck.

And I'm like, wait, what?

So then we have to backtrack when all this happened.

And when you hear you broke your neck or you broke your back, it's scary, right?

I was 28 years old at the time.

And it was, I have the surgery, and I'm out

minimum one year, and this is also back when in wrestling, we call it the zipper. They go

behind your neck, and you basically have a scar from the base of like your hair line, your neckline, all the way to kind of like your, the base of your entire neck.

Nowadays they go in through the front.

But basically like, hey, you're scared.

I also remember like crying because I was like man you know this is

during ecw my career is going well i was also reading the dynamite kids book and uh like do i

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