Big E suffered a neck injury on the March 11, 2022, episode of WWE SmackDown when taking an overhead belly-to-belly suplex at ringside from Ridge Holland. He landed on his neck and fractured his C1 vertebra and C6 vertebra.
Over a year later, people are still wondering whether he will ever wrestle again. While speaking with the media on Friday while in town for Saturday’s SummerSlam, Big E noted a potential commentary role has been discussed for him.
“It’s something that has been discussed. Titus (O’Neil) is doing that and having great fun. I’ve had fun as well. I saw Becky’s comments about the pee break, which I’ve thought about many times. Many times. Do you wear a diaper? I’d probably wear a diaper. I like to stay hydrated. After three hours of being there, we can’t go in a bucket. There are people right behind you. I would. Maybe a catheter. Like a catheter. It would be painful, don’t get me wrong, but I can’t sit there for three hours with no pee break. That would be the biggest obstacle. I’m going to add on to the Becky Lynch pee-break commentary discourse and say that for me would be the biggest obstacle the urine. The catheter would be the route we’d go.”
Big E then gave the latest update on his status.
“They’ve been great, man. We did the year checkup, and all that stuff looked great as well. But on the other side, you know, I also talked to spine specialists, some who’ve worked on people in the company and done their fusions, and they said like, ‘Hey, I would not wrestle again if I were you.’ So for me, at 37, you know, these are things that I think about. I think about the quality of life. You know, when I started this job at 23 years old and probably had a bit of a death wish and was okay dying in the ring. Now at 37 would like to not die in the ring. I would like to do other things with my life. I don’t really have a timeline right now. I’m just really grateful to not have any nerve pain. My strength is great, legit, no issues whatsoever. It’s just something I wanna be smart about and make the very best decision for my life because, hopefully, I’d like to have a lot of life, a lot of healthy life ahead of me. So I just wanna be smart about the decision. So, unfortunately, right now, I have no answers. I feel great. I, but yeah, I got nothing.”
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