Dr. Chris Aman Sues CM Punk and Colt Cabana

[Big Red Machine]

Source: F4WOnline

Thursday, 19 February 2015 17:36


WWE physician Dr. Chris Amann filed suit today in Cook County (IL) Circuit Court against Philip Jack Brooks (C.M. Punk) and Scott Colton (Colt Cabana) based on comments Brooks made on Colton's "Art of Wrestling" podcast.

Amann claimed both men's statements on the November podcast were false, defamatory and put him in a false light by improperly insinuating a lack of integrity and/or competence as a medical doctor.

Amann is seeking in excess of $1 million in compensatory damages as well as punitive damages.

Amann in particular claimed that Brooks impugned his reputation by saying he had misdiagnosed a fatty deposit on Brooks' back as a fatty deposit and ignored requests to remove it. Brooks said that it turned into life-threatening MSRA.

Brooks was also critical of Amann's handling of what he said was a concussion.

Amann claimed he was never asked by Brooks to treat any lump or remove a lump, saying Brooks never showed him such a lump and that he never prescribed Brooks with antibiotics for such a bump.

Amann did say that he told Brooks to leave the ring after believing he may have suffered a concussion and wanted futher evaluation in the training room.

He claimed Colton aided in falsely depicting Amann as a lazy or a bad doctor.

He claimed both men knowingly fabricated the false and disparaging statements about him.

[Big Red Machine]

Sh*t just got a lot more serious.

[Chris Everlast]

I was wondering when the doctor would speak up. To think that any doctor would not be worried about something described as a "lump" is ridiculous - and this is coming from a guy that distrusts medical doctors in any field.

[Big Red Machine]

I was wondering when the doctor would speak up. To think that any doctor would not be worried about something described as a "lump" is ridiculous - and this is coming from a guy that distrusts medical doctors in any field.

Yeah. I was thinking that either WWE has to stand by him and call Punk a liar, or fire the guy. There's no middle ground.

[cero2k]

I was wondering when the doctor would speak up. To think that any doctor would not be worried about something described as a "lump" is ridiculous - and this is coming from a guy that distrusts medical doctors in any field.

Yeah. I was thinking that either WWE has to stand by him and call Punk a liar, or fire the guy. There's no middle ground.

backing him up could be terrible for WWE if indeed the allegations were true, so they may know something we don't. and firing him proves Punk right and again is bad news for WWE. Let me point out that WWE allegedly has nothing to do with this situation, this is the doctor acting alone (the suing, i mean).

[Big Red Machine]

I was wondering when the doctor would speak up. To think that any doctor would not be worried about something described as a "lump" is ridiculous - and this is coming from a guy that distrusts medical doctors in any field.

Yeah. I was thinking that either WWE has to stand by him and call Punk a liar, or fire the guy. There's no middle ground.

backing him up could be terrible for WWE if indeed the allegations were true, so they may know something we don't. and firing him proves Punk right and again is bad news for WWE. Let me point out that WWE allegedly has nothing to do with this situation, this is the doctor acting alone (the suing, i mean).

Yes. But if he is found to be wrong here, then WWE has to do something- at least fine him or something, because then it looks like they know they have a problem but aren't taking any steps to correct it.

[cero2k]

Yes. But if he is found to be wrong here, then WWE has to do something- at least fine him or something, because then it looks like they know they have a problem but aren't taking any steps to correct it.

yeah obviously, hell, at this point, if he's found to have done something wrong, Punk can counter sue him for malpractice and he loses more than his WWE job, he loses his license

[kirbs2002]

Looks like an old as time lesson is being reinforced here.

Perhaps one should use their brain before flinging feces and burning bridges.

[badnewzxl]

Not sure how the doc is gonna prove defamation; Punk mainly just criticized the guy for not forcing Punk onto the sideline. I don't believe the doc purposely left Punk go out and wrestle in a hazardous physical condition but I'm sure his job is to patch these guys up as well as possible so they can go out and perform their job. If Punk were suing It would seem petty of Punk; this guy suing seems petty of wwe, even tho they probably have absolutely nothing to do with it. Part of me wonders how/why anyone would hold Punks claims against the doctor when Punk himself doesn't even deem it necessary to legitimize the claim. Punk is saying the guy is an idiot, not a liar which is an opinion, not a accusation.

While writing this I could not help but realize the politics of all this, and I don't mean that in a bad way.

Of all the top stars there has ever been, John Cena is the absolute hardest working one. What HHH and VKM said in their respective stone cold podcasts is very much true: nobody works harder than Cena...NO ONE EVER HAS! Not Flair, not Austin, not Rock, not Hogan; Nobody! The guy wrestles through injuries and tries to make it to every single appearance he's committed himself to.

THEN THERE ARE THE REST OF THE LOCKER ROOM! It's fine to use Cena as your poster child but don't expect the rest of the guys to have wolverine healing powers. Wwe wanted Punk to do what no one but Cena has ever done and carry the biggest company in the world with no rest and almost zero personal time. There aren't very many people who can do that.

That's what I hope the company learns from this; give the performers some rest. There are more than enough guys in the company for them to either rotate a schedule or just not make guys wrestle 2-5 Times a week, 47 weeks out of the year

[Big Red Machine]

Not sure how the doc is gonna prove defamation; Punk mainly just criticized the guy for not forcing Punk onto the sideline. I don't believe the doc purposely left Punk go out and wrestle in a hazardous physical condition but I'm sure his job is to patch these guys up as well as possible so they can go out and perform their job. If Punk were suing It would seem petty of Punk; this guy suing seems petty of wwe, even tho they probably have absolutely nothing to do with it. Part of me wonders how/why anyone would hold Punks claims against the doctor when Punk himself doesn't even deem it necessary to legitimize the claim. Punk is saying the guy is an idiot, not a liar which is an opinion, not a accusation.

The really serious accusation here is the MRSA one (IMO), which is definitely a real allegation of malpractice. If AJ's doctor was correct PUNK COULD HAVE DIED because Aman wouldn't treat this thing.

[badnewzxl]

Not sure how the doc is gonna prove defamation; Punk mainly just criticized the guy for not forcing Punk onto the sideline. I don't believe the doc purposely left Punk go out and wrestle in a hazardous physical condition but I'm sure his job is to patch these guys up as well as possible so they can go out and perform their job. If Punk were suing It would seem petty of Punk; this guy suing seems petty of wwe, even tho they probably have absolutely nothing to do with it. Part of me wonders how/why anyone would hold Punks claims against the doctor when Punk himself doesn't even deem it necessary to legitimize the claim. Punk is saying the guy is an idiot, not a liar which is an opinion, not a accusation.

The really serious accusation here is the MRSA one (IMO), which is definitely a real allegation of malpractice. If AJ's doctor was correct PUNK COULD HAVE DIED because Aman wouldn't treat this thing.

But there is no malpractice lawsuit. I always think of malpractice as a legal issue and once Punk has no lawsuit I don't understand why the doctor would bring it up. If he can't prove Punks lying he just opened the door for Punk to sue and he ultimately makes himself look more incompetent.

Furthermore, how can he just produce this million dollar figure out of nowhere? How the he'll did statements from five months ago cost you a million bucks without you losing your job?

[Big Red Machine]

Not sure how the doc is gonna prove defamation; Punk mainly just criticized the guy for not forcing Punk onto the sideline. I don't believe the doc purposely left Punk go out and wrestle in a hazardous physical condition but I'm sure his job is to patch these guys up as well as possible so they can go out and perform their job. If Punk were suing It would seem petty of Punk; this guy suing seems petty of wwe, even tho they probably have absolutely nothing to do with it. Part of me wonders how/why anyone would hold Punks claims against the doctor when Punk himself doesn't even deem it necessary to legitimize the claim. Punk is saying the guy is an idiot, not a liar which is an opinion, not a accusation.

The really serious accusation here is the MRSA one (IMO), which is definitely a real allegation of malpractice. If AJ's doctor was correct PUNK COULD HAVE DIED because Aman wouldn't treat this thing.

But there is no malpractice lawsuit. I always think of malpractice as a legal issue and once Punk has no lawsuit I don't understand why the doctor would bring it up. If he can't prove Punks lying he just opened the door for Punk to sue and he ultimately makes himself look more incompetent.

Furthermore, how can he just produce this million dollar figure out of nowhere? How the he'll did statements from five months ago cost you a million bucks without you losing your job?

I think the lack of malpractice lawsuit was that Punk was just happy with getting whatever he got from WWE, and also didn't want to do anything that might hurt AJ's career. I agree with you about the doctor's lawsuit being foolish simply because the burden of proof is on him.

As to your question: because that's how lawsuits work and it's all stupid. Especially in his case- if WWE hasn't punished him in any way for it, and his only employer is WWE, he hasn't lost anything.

[cero2k]

But there is no malpractice lawsuit. I always think of malpractice as a legal issue and once Punk has no lawsuit I don't understand why the doctor would bring it up. If he can't prove Punks lying he just opened the door for Punk to sue and he ultimately makes himself look more incompetent.

Furthermore, how can he just produce this million dollar figure out of nowhere? How the he'll did statements from five months ago cost you a million bucks without you losing your job?

I think the lack of malpractice lawsuit was that Punk was just happy with getting whatever he got from WWE, and also didn't want to do anything that might hurt AJ's career. I agree with you about the doctor's lawsuit being foolish simply because the burden of proof is on him.

As to your question: because that's how lawsuits work and it's all stupid. Especially in his case- if WWE hasn't punished him in any way for it, and his only employer is WWE, he hasn't lost anything.

this all makes me think that the intention here is to simply shake Punk out of some settlement money thinking that Punk just doesn't want to deal with this considering he should be training day and night for his MMA debut. The only one i feel sad for is Cabana, he definitely doesn't have the money to pay off this, i would guess that Punk may be willing to pay his part.