Kevin Owens’ neck harm has apparently gotten worse. Owens continues to be awaiting surgical procedure after a neck harm shelved him in April, however he has a tentative timeline to deal with the more and more worrying difficulty.
On April 4, Owens pulled out of WrestleMania 41, citing a neck harm. Owens claimed to have had the harm for 5 months, although he had wrestled Sami Zayn in a ruthless “Unsanctioned match” three days earlier. Owens expanded enormously on his situation whereas talking with shut good friend and co-worker Cody Rhodes on the latter’s “What Do You Wish to Speak About?” podcast.
Owens’ neck harm was initially misdiagnosed as a result of his signs weren’t congruent with neck or spinal twine accidents. Even after medical doctors recognized the problem, Owens continued functioning with out the usually related signs. Sadly, that modified shortly earlier than their podcast episode, launched on Wednesday, was recorded.
“Within the final week, for some cause, the signs all got here in a single shot,” Owens informed Rhodes. “Each symptom you’d anticipate me to have, the ache within the neck, the stuff taking place the arms, the legs not likely responding, it is all been occurring.
“So it has been fairly f—ing brutal. I can not anticipate the surgical procedure. After which to maneuver ahead, no matter that appears like — nevertheless it’s been very irritating.”
Owens spoke with a number of medical professionals and different skilled wrestlers with comparable accidents. Owens opted to delay surgical procedure to permit his spinal twine to heal naturally. Together with his newfound ache, Owens is extra keen to maneuver ahead with the surgical procedure, tentatively deliberate for the summer season.
“We’re letting my spinal twine heal as a lot as we are able to by itself earlier than we go in for the surgical procedure, as a result of how intensive the surgical procedure shall be relies on how my spinal twine seems to be after we go in there,” Owens mentioned.
“We’re ready until mid-July to do the surgical procedure,” he later added. “Hopefully, it is a regular neck fusion. It may not be, we do not know.”