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Only seconds into
the contest, Ben Ross, an Australian former rugby league
professional, was screaming in pain after his arm snapped during
the segment on 'The Footy Show', a local chat show broadcast
live on Thursday.
Distressed, Sailor called for a "medical" as the studio audience
sat stunned.
"We'll go to a break, we'll come back after this. We need an
ambulance," the show's shaken host Paul 'Fatty' Vautin stuttered
as 35-year-old Ross crouched in pain.
Ross once broke his neck in a tackle when playing for
Sydney-based National Rugby League team Cronulla but said from
his Sydney hospital that the broken arm was "probably" the most
painful injury he had ever had.
"When I looked at Wendell's face I knew something was wrong," he
told local broadcaster, the Nine Network.
"His face, if it was possible, turned white."
Sailor on Friday told a breakfast show on Sydney radio station
KIIS that Ross had warned him of a tight shoulder.
"He said: 'if it feels like it's going to go, I'll just tap out
and let go'," the 40-year-old said.
Sailor apologised profusely.
"Even if you didn't like someone you never want to do that to
someone," he said. "Just watching his face, hearing that noise
go snap ... it was just terrible."
Ross took the break in good spirit, though.
"Wasn't anyone's fault mate," he tweeted.
(Writing by Ian Ransom; Editing by Sudipto Ganguly)
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