Former WWE Tag Team Champion Dennis Knight answered questions on AdFreeShows.com. Most WWE fans may recognize Knight as Phineus Godwin or Mideon. He also wrestled as Tex Slazenger in WCW.
Knight has been a chef for many years, but he revealed during the Q&A that he has had to slow down due to a foot injury that has resulted in him losing half of his foot.
“I had to take a break (from being a chef),” Knight said. “I got half my foot cut off about six months ago. There’s these things called speed racks. They’re like big squares and they have shelves and you wheel the food around. There could be hundreds and hundreds of pounds when they’re fully loaded. One of them fell off of a broken back deck and landed on my foot and because of the fractures in my spine, I can’t, and this is crazy, I can’t feel from my knees down.”
Knight continued, “So like, when I was cooking a lot, I wore a hole in the bottom of my big toe, like, to the bone and it got infected, and yeah, I didn’t even feel it. This thing fell on my foot and it was like, oh, it just felt kind of like a little swollen, but that was it, but I really couldn’t feel anything. So then I go home and I take my shoe off and I put my sock off and two of my toes are just hanging off there and one of them was in the sock and I didn’t know. This was like an hour later. So I went right to the hospital. I was there for like five days getting antibiotics and then they took off, yeah, I have no toes on my right foot. I have size 15 foot, but my right foot is like an 11 now. It’s just like where all your toes start. They just clipped them off so it’s like a big slipper. Yeah, and I can’t feel it at all, which is weird. I started working and then I was going to the gym a lot and I wore a hole on the bottom of my foot without knowing it. Like, I got sore and when that happens, I had to stop and make sure because it causes an infection.”
On the podcast, Knight appeared to be in good spirits. If you haven’t already heard it, it’s a fantastic podcast that I highly recommend.
You can check out the complete show via AdFreeShows.com.
(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
