Republished from chicagotribune
In the podcast, Brooks said he was mistreated for a growth on his back and a concussion by Christopher Amann of Will County, World Wrestling Entertainment's official doctor, according to the lawsuit.
Brooks' latest address was not known, but he has lived for many years in Chicago.
The suit, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, says Amann never treated Brooks for the lump on his back and followed proper protocol for a concussion, which included telling Brooks to leave the ring.
Brooks said in the podcast that the doctor did not excise the growth because he was "lazy" and that the nodule grew so large and dangerous that "it had teeth," according to the podcast. Because of Amann's negligence, Brooks said in the podcast, the lump morphed into a "full-blown," life-threatening drug-resistant staph infection by the time another doctor examined it.
Details of the podcast were published in several articles, which are quoted in the suit.
Also named as a defendant in the suit is professional wrestler Scott Colton, who hosts "The Art of Wrestling" podcast, which aired the comments. Colton, whose professional name is Colt Cabana, was terminated by WWE in 2009, according to the suit.
Colton "affirmed and amplified" Brooks' comments, according to the suit, when he pleaded with listeners to "hear the struggle" and "hear the heartache" in his statements.
The podcast has been streamed more than 1 million times on YouTube and more than 10,000 times on SoundCloud.com, according to the suit.
Parties to the suit could not immediately be reached.
Phillip Brooks, who made a name for himself as WWE wrestler CM Punk, has been sued over comments he made in a tell-all podcast last November.
In the podcast, Brooks said he was mistreated for a growth on his back and a concussion by Christopher Amann of Will County, World Wrestling Entertainment's official doctor, according to the lawsuit.
Brooks' latest address was not known, but he has lived for many years in Chicago.
The suit, filed Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court, says Amann never treated Brooks for the lump on his back and followed proper protocol for a concussion, which included telling Brooks to leave the ring.
Brooks said in the podcast that the doctor did not excise the growth because he was "lazy" and that the nodule grew so large and dangerous that "it had teeth," according to the podcast. Because of Amann's negligence, Brooks said in the podcast, the lump morphed into a "full-blown," life-threatening drug-resistant staph infection by the time another doctor examined it.
Details of the podcast were published in several articles, which are quoted in the suit.
Also named as a defendant in the suit is professional wrestler Scott Colton, who hosts "The Art of Wrestling" podcast, which aired the comments. Colton, whose professional name is Colt Cabana, was terminated by WWE in 2009, according to the suit.
Colton "affirmed and amplified" Brooks' comments, according to the suit, when he pleaded with listeners to "hear the struggle" and "hear the heartache" in his statements.
The podcast has been streamed more than 1 million times on YouTube and more than 10,000 times on SoundCloud.com, according to the suit.
Parties to the suit could not immediately be reached.
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