This thing just keeps getting worse and worse.
Akitoshi Saito (The guy who delivered the Back Suplex), along with his family have been receiving death threats. It got to the point that Saito attempted suicide and it has been reported by a Tokyo news source that he is now under suicide watch.
In an attempt to prevent another in-ring death, the powers that be, had a meeting last night. Here's a brief summary of what was discussed.
There was a meeting yesterday it appears that everyone was in agreement about forming a union and there will be a push to introduce a license system. There was also a lot of talk about preventing such accidents in the future, including training for refs and wrestlers about how to observe the physical condition of their opponent, ring doctors, yearly medical checks, retirement age and so on.
An Organ Transplant Law amendment bill was also passed yesterday, which Misawa was supportive of. The bill recognises brain death as legal death and scrapped the age limit for organ transplants, which had previously been 15 years old.
