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The late Brodie Lee would have needed a lung transplant to overcome his lung condition, reported Dave Meltzer in the latest issue of
Lee never got healthy enough after getting sick to qualify for the operation. Jim Ross noted on the
Grilling JR podcast that Lee had double lung failure, and that he heard that Lee couldn’t qualify for a transplant. If Lee were able to get the transplant,
The Observer noted that he would need to get on a list for the transplant, qualify, and then get a donor with the lungs needed for a man his size, which would have been a challenge with him being 6-foot-5 and 275 pounds. If he got the transplant, he would have then had to have lived his life “heavily immunocompromised and take a lot of anti-rejection drugs”.