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Originally Posted by The Fugitive
I'm pretty sure that SSP, while it looked like it did some serious damage, was not the stick that broke the camel's back... or his back. I think it was the springboard Asia moonsault from the inside that crippled Hayabusa.
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Ok. That was my original thought, but I wasn't really certain enough to say anything for sure. I'll go look it up and see what happened.
Found something
http://fmwwrestling.us/Hayabusa2.html
October 22, 2001 at Korakuen Hall, Hayabusa would suffer one of the worse injuries in professional wrestling history against Mammoth Sasaki in a one on one battle in attempt to win Shoichi Arai his spot back in FMW. Almost ten minutes into the match, Hayabusa would go to do an Asai Moonsault from the inside of the ring on Sasaki when his foot would suddenly slip on the rope and Eiji Ezaki would fall directly on his head causing him to become paralyzed instantly from the neck down. Hayabusa not knowing what to do would tell referee FMW referee Marty Asano for the match to keep going and Asano would tell Mammoth to keep going. Mammoth who would begin to freak out, would begin to just kick Hayabusa and wait for him to get up, and then would put Hayabusa in a rear chin lock which would cause the injury to become far worse until Referee Asano had no choice but to stop the match. Shoichi Arai, Kuroda, Hisakatsu Oya, GOEMON, Onryo, Ricky Fuji, among others would come in to the ring due to the tragic accident. A stretcher would be rushed to the ring as Hayabusa would ask for the mic and address and ask not to rush to the ring and stated to please continue to support FMW for he may have just died for the promotion. Television cameras would then stop filming as paramedics would rush to Korakuen Hall and take off the Hayabusa mask to make it easier for Eiji to breathe as they placed him on the stretcher and would take him to a nearby college hospital in Tokyo. Shoichi Arai and Eiji's wife would be the only ones allowed to visit him while in the hospital the day of the accident. Days later, while in the hospital, germs would get inside of Eiji's body and would end up going into his heart. Eiji Ezaki would begin to suffer an incredibly high fever which would force the doctors to concentrate on the deathly high fever over being paralyzed from the neck down. Many drugs would be given to Eiji Ezaki to help his fever, all of which would take away his memory from October to December 29th.