In a post on his official Twitter account, former WWE and WCW star Virgil (real name Michael Jones) revealed that he was recently diagnosed with an early stage of dementia.

Virgil’s post regarding the diagnosis reads, “Dearest Meatsauce Mafia, I am grateful that I can communicate something that has happened to me. Unfortunately, I have some really hard news to share. If you were wondering why I haven’t been so engaged over the last few weeks, it’s because I was given bad news. Since Mania weekend (of all weekends), I was not feeling so great, something wasn’t right, my head, my arm and my heart. When I came back from Dallas, I ended up going to the doctor and they discovered a whole bunch of issues. For starters, without me knowing, over the past few months the doctor had identified that I suffered two massive strokes, like I didn’t even have a clue until I started not working with one of my arms, it’s basically not able to do anything. This was the decent news. The worse news is that I have been told that I am fighting with an early stage of dementia. The years of taking the big main event bump every night (that nobody else wanted to take) had started to effect me. I’m nervous, I’m scared and god knows I can’t afford to get through this and even make a living. It’s really sad as all I want to do is have fun and do what I always do, survive. What am I asking for, well for starters, my roommate and team have helped me with this page to help me get by, I’ll also sell autographs, video shoutouts, or even if you could download my $2 video game (on both iOS and Android just look up Meatsauce Madness), it means everything. I am asking you to send this out to all of your friends, family, or anyone that you ever thought loved wrestling. It all helps, I ain’t looking for sympathy, I am looking for the love that I have poured into this business to hopefully carry me through this s****y time. I did my time, I took my lumps, now I am just trying to survive. Hope this makes sense, love you all.”

On behalf of Wrestling-News.Net, we would like to extend our thoughts to Virgil at this time and wish him the very best.