In an interview with Sports Illustrated, former WWE, WCW and ECW superstar Perry Saturn commented on a number of topics, including his current health issues.

“Last January, I got a migraine and it was the worst pain I ever had. I went to the hospital and they ended up keeping me in extensive care for three days, they did a bunch of tests on me while I was there and the doctor told me that he thought it was T.B.I., a traumatic brain injury. Since then, I’ve seen neurologists and that’s the diagnosis. The actual diagnosis is moderate traumatic brain injury, but moderate is a lot worse than how it sounds. If anybody’s ever had a migraine, they know it’s not a headache. I get them quite frequently now and I’m starting to have memory loss. I get confused, I don’t notice it, but my wife does and then she’ll talk to me about it. Later, I won’t even know I talked to her about it and won’t remember any of that.

This is still new to the doctors, so I don’t know about recovery. They have treatments for it, but I don’t know if there is really hope for recovery yet, it’s all from my work in the ring and all the concussions I’ve had, concussions are very common for the wrestlers. You don’t take days off, so I’ve wrestled with concussions, that was part of wrestling. I’ve had more than ten, but I don’t know the number, figure ECW, WCW and WWE, when I did their hardcore s***, I was always getting hit in the head with chairs.”

The interview is available in full at this link.