WWE legend Ted DiBiase is suffering from ‘severe brain trauma’ after wrestling career.
The 69-year-old Hall of Famer – who is best known to fans as the Million Dollar Man – retired from his full time in-ring career 30 years ago after making his debut in 1974 and now he’s opened up on his long term health.
He explained: ‘I don’t have Alzheimer’s and I don’t have dementia. But they said, “Ted, you have something — we just simply call it severe brain trauma.” ‘
DiBiase admitted he is ‘not surprised’ by the development, and he noted the way his condition has an impact on his ‘short term memory’.
Speaking on the latest episode of his Everybody’s Got A Pod podcast, he added: ‘I only wrestled maybe almost 20 years, so I’m not surprised I might have a little brain trauma.
‘What it affects is my memory, and they say it’d be easier for [me] to remember something [I] did 40 or 50 years ago, but the short-term memory — some of the stuff like now — it’s bits and pieces.’
As well as creating his own Million Dollar Championship, DiBiase is also a former King of the Ring winner and three-time WWE Tag Team Champion alongside Irwin R. Schyster (IRS).
More recently, he held the 24/7 Title and appeared on-screen in a rivalry between LA Knight and new SmackDown star Cameron Grimes in 2021.
‘It’s a wonderful part of having somebody like him around. Look, not everybody in that generation comes around and is helpful or whatever. Some wanna be, some don’t. Ted is of a mindset that he just wants to help and he wants to give information.’
Meanwhile, former WWE broadcaster Todd Pettengill has fondly remembered his time working with DiBiase in the 1990s, which saw him and DiBiase forced filming delays because they couldn’t stop laughing during their segments.
He exclusively told Metro.co.uk: ‘We used to tape the show near the end of the day, people were tired, the set would be falling down around us.
‘It would generally take us – which probably should have taken a couple of hours, it would take us five or six because we were having a blast and we were just laughing the entire time.’
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