{"id":34433,"date":"2019-01-06T18:21:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-06T23:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=34433"},"modified":"2022-01-04T17:19:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:19:54","slug":"buffalo-brothers-in-car-accident-two-with-serious-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/06\/buffalo-brothers-in-car-accident-two-with-serious-injuries\/","title":{"rendered":"Buffalo Brothers In Car Accident, Two With Serious Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong>\u00a0Since the article was published, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/buffalo-brothers-car-accident-recovery-fund\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an official GoFundMe has been set up<\/a> to help the Buffalo Brothers affected during their recovery for medical costs.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Another blow for the indie scene, in particular the US Northeast and Canadian (Ontario) indies, as a car carrying four members of the <strong>Buffalo Brothers<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/12\/17\/the-buffalo-brothers-a-western-new-york-uprising\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">the tight-knit\u00a0collective of emerging indie stars from the Buffalo, New York area<\/a> that are breaking out with <strong>Empire State Wrestling (ESW)<\/strong> and <strong>Limitless<\/strong> in the US and with <strong>Smash Wrestling<\/strong> in Canada &#8211; hit a patch of black ice while driving home from a show in Montreal, Quebec and hit a guardrail where the car was severely damaged.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/BraxtonSutter\/status\/1082014204314484736<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pepper Parks<\/strong> (formerly <strong>Braxton Sutter<\/strong> in IMPACT Wrestling and one of the mentors of the Buffalo Boys) reported the accident on Social Media, and soon the others began to update on their condition. Wrestlers <strong>Kevin Bennett<\/strong> and <strong>Puf<\/strong> had minor injuries, but <strong>Kevin Blackwood<\/strong> and <strong>Danial Garcia<\/strong> suffered the worse of the four. The latter two were taken into emergency surgery, as Blackwood suffered two broken ankles and head trauma, while Garcia had a badly broken leg (broken femur) on one leg, and a broken ankle on the other.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It\u2019s been a rough one. Thanks to everyone who\u2019s reached out. Mostly right now I\u2019m worried about @DanielMTGarcia and I\u2019m hoping he comes back to this room ASAP but you know the buffalo brothers. We can\u2019t be stopped \ud83d\udda4 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HmPYpmNpMD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/HmPYpmNpMD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BLACKWOOD (@blkwdxvx) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blkwdxvx\/status\/1082029632881340423?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">January 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The four had just finished wrestling for\u00a0<strong>Federation de Lutte Quebecoise (FLQ)<\/strong>, a sister promotion to Smash Wrestling out of Toronto, and was heading home when the accident occurred.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/pufisgod\/status\/1081784478668914688<\/p>\n<p>The staff of Last Word on Pro Wrestling send out their good vibes for a speedy return to the ring for these four talented men as they enter a new year of professional wrestling!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE:\u00a0Since the article was published, an official GoFundMe has been set up to help the Buffalo Brothers affected during their recovery for medical costs. Another blow for the indie scene, in particular the US Northeast and Canadian (Ontario) indies, as a car carrying four members of the Buffalo Brothers &#8211; the tight-knit\u00a0collective of emerging indie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":34437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[4029,3657,2166,4030,3991],"class_list":["post-34433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-buffalo-brothers","tag-daniel-garcia","tag-kevin-bennett","tag-kevin-blackwood","tag-puf"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}