WWE to Donate $1.2 Million for Concussion Research

Love or hate the antics of World Wrestling Entertainment, it's hard to ignore when one of our own is so much a part of it.

Nashua's to all you WWE fans, is taking the lead in a campaign to raise awareness and money around Chronic Traumatic Encephaliopathy, a brain disease associated with repeated concussions.

The WWE is gifting $1.2 million over three years to further research aimed at developing a treatment for the disease, most recently in the news due to concussion-related lawsuits brought against the NFL by thousands of former players.

CTE has been linked to depression and dementia.

"Obviously, I think it's such a huge concern for everybody right now in sports and in the military. As we learn more and more about concussions and what can become of it, I think it's a problem for everybody," said Levesque, WWE executive vice president of Talent and Live Events in this USA Today story.

In a related WWE storyline, Triple H appeared to be suffering from some form of head injury and was advised not to wrestle following a pay-per-view match Sunday in which his character was trying to "shake something off."

From WWE.com: "After the pay-per-view match on Sunday, we advised (Triple H) on Monday that he shouldn't wrestle because of head and jaw trauma he suffered from the sledgehammer attack by Brock Lesnar," Dr. Sampson explained to WWE.com. "Obviously, we saw what happened Monday night: He went against medical advice and tried to wrestle. Luckily, he pulled himself out."