Wrestler Karl Anderson won’t be entering the ring for the next six to nine months.
As previously shared on eWn, Anderson broke the news of his hiatus on Twitter earlier this week declaring his return post WrestleMania.
Anderson bared details of his health situation on the recent episode of his “Talk N’ Shop” podcast. He unveiled that he had to go under the knife due to a torn rotator cuff tendon and a partially torn labrum.
He recalled, “It happened two months ago. I felt something in a match, and didn’t think anything of it because that’s what we do. The next week, something else happened in a match again. ‘That hurt a little worse,’ but still thought nothing of it because that’s how we’ve always rolled. We had three or four more matches, and each other, progressively, I realized, ‘This thing hurts.’”
He further noted that the discomfort escalated to the point that sleeping became difficult due to persistent aching and throbbing. Concerned, he decided to consult the WWE medical team. He mentioned, “I wasn’t able to sleep at night because it was aching and throbbing. ‘Let me tell somebody.’ I talked to the WWE doctors who handled it right away and they immediately scheduled me for an anthrogram. They immediately saw it was a torn rotator cuff tendon and a partially torn labrum.”
We lend our thoughts to Anderson and hope for his swift and complete recuperation.
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