Full Episode Download Link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-11-04T21_00_00-08_00
Jerry Lynn On His Infamous WWF Shoot Promo & The Invasion: https://youtu.be/rfB-7wjoJI0
On his recovery from neck surgery:
I’m still in pain because I still have a bulging disc that’s hitting the nerve root that shoots down my left leg but the main thing was that I got my neck fixed. I went to see the doctor initially because I had the pain shooting down my leg but I also had numbness and tingling down my arm. They showed me an MRI on my neck and it was pretty bad and they said I needed to get it taken care of as soon as possible, they said if I would end up in a car accident or had a bad fall I’d end up with some very serious injuries. He didn’t want to say the “P” word but he pretty much was saying I’d be paralyzed and he also said that he was surprised I was doing as well as I was. In the last couple of years that I wrestled in every other match i wrestled I’d get a stinger that would shoot down my arm so I think I was very fortunate that God was watching over my because there is no telling how many times I could have been paralyzed.
The Go-Fund me campaign to help with his medical bills:
It was overwhelming. I saw fans from all over the world. Fans from Japan, Mexico, England even Helsinki was one of them. It wasn’t just the fans because there were promoters that I worked for, there were wrestlers and it was really amazing and like I said very overwhelming. I always said there is no crying in wrestling but it brought tears to my eyes.
The moment he realized it was time to retire and that injuries had caught up to him:
My first back injury. I ruptured a disc training for the first time I was supposed to wrestle RVD in TNA and it pretty much ended my full time career, just like that. I knew I wasn’t a spring chicken anymore and I was hurting and I knew I couldn’t move like I could ten years before. The time to quit was coming I just didn’t know it was going to be that abruptly. After that injury I felt better and I didn’t have the shooting pain down my leg and thought I would just wrestle part time. But after every match my body was just screaming at me “what are you doing” so finally I knew it was time but it’s hard to accept. I was into my 24th year of wrestling and it was kind of hard to just give up and it just so happened I was wrestling Dan Maff for Pro Wrestling Syndicate and he had gotten concussed during the match, I didn’t know it and I don’t think he did either but he was pretty loopy and then because of that he took a DDT bad and got a bad stinger and couldn’t feel his legs. i had to pretty much pull him on top of me for the pin and when they were taking a look at him it was like a light went off and I just realized I’m pushing my luck. It was right then and there looking at him that I grabbed the mic and announced that was the last year I was going to wrestle.
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
