Irv Muchnick suspects that Lance Cade may have suffered from Chronic Traumatic Encephelopathy

You believe that Vince McMahon disliked him so much that he wanted to bury him with a chair shot angle instead of just pining Cade and making him a jobber and Shawn Michaels just goes with it because Cade didn’t shake his hand. Since this is fact in your mind and in Meltzers’ and Irv Mushnick then you need to get the fuck off this blog and call the police or Cade’s lawyers and family because that is aggravated assault. You are stating as FACT that Vince set out to hurt this man on purpose and HBK was the instrument to inflict a malicious act of violence upon a human being that HBK trained, cared for and helped his career to the point that he jobbed for Cade when he didn’t have to. So in a week all that history HBK has with Cade goes in the trash because Vince wants to kill him?

An excerpt on Cade from Figure Four;

 Cade was fired from WWE on October 14, 2008 after passing out on an airplane due to taking too many somas. It would have only been his first WWE Wellness policy violation, but the company was so concerned that he was immediately fired. He was very upset about it initially, but later admitted that the company did the right thing. He was re-signed in September of 2009 but was still having problems and eventually asked the company if they’d pay for him to go to rehab. They did and he spent a good deal of time there, getting high marks for how hard he worked to get clean. For whatever reason, upon completing rehab the company dropped a storyline they had planned for him and released him again. Despite this turn of events, someone who spoke with him as recently as a few months back said he appeared to be clean and sober, and that it seemed like his head was in the right place.

Last week he’d been looking bad and reported problems breathing, and on Tuesday night passed out and was rushed to the hospital. They revived him, but he woke up and was very upset about being hospitalized and demanded to be released. He stormed out of the house after returning home. He went to his father’s work and his father remembered him not looking good at all. He was very concerned and called Lance’s wife Tanya to tell her about it. She had not seen him since he stormed out of the house. Cade asked to stay at his father’s house and was found dead on Thursday evening with word getting out the next day, the day he was scheduled to leave for a two week tour of All Japan. He leaves behind two daughters and a stepson.

Michaels, who Cade idolized and who Tanya told WWE officials to please be sure to contact on Friday morning with the news, tweeted: “Aft my morning tweet I got the call about Lance. No words will b good enuff. 1 of my boys is gone. My prayers & thoughts have already been given 2 his family & will continue. Goodbye Lance I Love You. I ask that all of u would lift his family up in prayer.”

So you are correct it was two times that WWE paid for Cade to enter rehab. One interesting note is Cades’ Wife Tanya wanted WWE officials to get to HBK with news. It would seem to me that had Cade been punished and knew HBK did it to him that he would have hated him for it and his wife would’ve known that.

Brian Pillman turned down rehab, Cade didn’t. Pillman lived in a era where saying you had a problem was saying you had a weakness. In this day and age, a guy going to rehab is no issue at all in wrestling and WWE should be commended for breaking that stigma. Scott Hall is back in WWE sponsored rehab and I hope it works out for him but it took him years to admit his problem because like Pillman, Hall is “old school.” Jeff Hardy, Kurt Angle, Carlito, Umaga all turned down rehab too. The point here is if Pillman lived in this era he would’ve been more apt to take the treatment and not try to save face.