Kevin Owens came out on last night’s SmackDown and broke his heel character to announce that he has been dealing with neck issues for the last 4 months and needs surgery, which means he is out of WrestleMania 41.
He thanked the fans and left. Randy Orton came out and showed respect to Owens, as Owens left. Nick Aldis then informed Orton that he doesn’t have a match at WrestleMania anymore. Orton hit Aldis with an RKO.
Robbie Fox asked Kevin Owens the following question about his neck injury on My Mom’s Basement podcast:
“Do you think anything from the last two PLE matches you had could have worsened it? I mean, you took some of the most insane bumps I’ve ever seen in both of those matches.”
Owens replied:
“So this is the funny part, right? I know that some of my detractors and there’s plenty out there will say, see, this is why I shouldn’t do this stuff. This is why this, this is why that. But I am telling you. It happened in a regular match, no hardcore things, nothing.
Yeah, there were two very simple things that I’ve done a million times. And then I had the other, you know, ultimately probably shouldn’t have had those matches considering all the time, but we didn’t know. Yeah.
But in those matches, as crazy as they were, at no time did I feel like my neck… like I didn’t land on my head. I didn’t get hurt. Like, I don’t remember anything of those matches.. Oh, my neck… you know what I mean?”
Owens revealed that one of his matches in January caused major neck issues:
“I felt great. But then in January, I had a match. And in the match, two things happened that really jarred my neck. That’s when the issue started. So I knew there was something. And then we ended up doing an MRI this week and found out that, yeah, it’s serious.
So I think that match in January is what did it because I had an MRI a month before that and everything was fine.”
Kevin Owens had the following two matches in January:
SmackDown (January 17) – Kevin Owens def. Rey Mysterio
SmackDown (January 24) – Kevin Owens def. Jimmy Uso
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