Multiple independent wrestlers were injured this weekend after being involved in a major car accident. Independent wrestlers, Kevin Blackwood and Daniel Garcia, are currently in hospital being treated for broken bones and other injuries. Wrestlers Puf and Kevin Bennett were treated for minor injuries.
Smash Wrestling posted the following in relation to the accident:
Please read, and keep our boys in your thoughts. pic.twitter.com/gq3AwiIooR
— Smash Wrestling (@smashwrestling) January 6, 2019
Kevin Blackwood and Daniel Garcia
Kevin Blackwood is an independent wrestler from Buffalo, NY. He was ranked #468 on the most recent edition of the PWI Top 500. “I’m overwhelmed with the amount of love my friends and I have received,” Blackwood Tweeted recently. “I promise, nothing can stop us. Your words mean more than you could ever know.”
Daniel Garcia is also an independent wrestler from Buffalo. He wrestled a match against Drew Gulak on 205 Live last summer.
Garcia was ranked 488 in the last PWI Top 500. Kevin Bennett was ranked 417th while the 4th wrestler involved, Puf, occupies the coveted #500 spot.
Pepper Parks sent out a Facebook update on their condition.
“Hey everybody … our boys Kevin Bennett Kevin Blackwood Daniel Garcia and Nick Pufpaff were in a major car accident last night. Danny and Blackwood are getting surgery today. They hit black ice on the way home from a show and a guardrail nearly cut the car in half. This is a very sad situation but definitely could have been worse. I don’t have children but these four are closest thing I have to that. Please send positive thoughts and prayers their way”
