AEW Star Cash Wheeler, who is one-half of FTR and a member of The Pinnacle, recently appeared on "The Sessions with Renee Paquette" podcast, where he talked about being put on the sidelines for about two months after being hit with a GTS by former WWE Star and current NJPW Star KENTA (Hideo Itami) during a match he and fellow AEW Star Dax Harwood had against himself and WWE Superstar Shinsuke Nakamura at a non-televised WWE live event in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Cash Wheeler said:
“The GTS was the very last thing of the match anyway.” “Like I was coming in, that, Kinshasa, that was it. You know, no matter what, it was going to be the last thing to happen to me and it just so happen to be the thing that put me in wires for two months.”
Cash Wheeler also spoke about how KENTA felt so bad about what happened during the match that as soon as he was hit with a GTS and started to roll off the apron, KENTA comes around the other side to grab him, pulls him to the floor and apologize.
Cash Wheeler said:
“He felt so bad about it.” “I had the video somewhere, I still might have it, but as soon as – like, as soon as it happens, you can see I’m out on my feet like I’m like Frankenstein. Then I fall to my a**, and like, as I’m falling, I kind of coming back to, and I grab my mouth, and roll off the apron, and he comes around the other side. He grabs me, he hugs me, and he pulls me to the floor and he’s saying, ‘I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry, I’m so sorry’. Like, he felt so bad.”
Cash Wheeler then talked about how while he was still groggy the doctors started talking to him about his medication and wire cutters in case he vomits as well as how he had a bit of an anxiety attack.
Cash Wheeler said:
“I’m still groggy at this point too and they’re like, ‘Here’s some medicine for the next week or so, here’s this, here some wire cutters in case you vomit so you don’t choke to death.'” “And I was like, ‘Why would you tell me that right now?’ That’s when I had a bit of an anxiety attack, for sure. Like I had to go to a room for a little bit and get drugged up because they told me that when I wake up and I’m like, ‘Yeah, please don’t tell me those things. I have this wire up for two months. I wouldn’t wish the wire, like the broken jaw wire in anybody, because you can’t lick your lips. Go one day without sticking your tongue out your mouth, then imagine doing that for eight weeks.”
You can check out Cash Wheeler's full comments at this link. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
