Kevin Owens has provided a new, frustrating update on the neck injury that has kept him out of action since April. Speaking on Cody Rhodes’ podcast, So What Do You Wanna Talk About?, Owens revealed that his neck surgery is planned for mid-July, but the process has been difficult.
On the April 4 edition of SmackDown, Owens announced he would be missing WrestleMania 41 due to the injury. He has now detailed that doctors are letting his spine heal on its own before operating, and the extent of the surgery is still unknown.
“It’s been such a frustrating process,” Owens said. “We’re letting my spinal cord heal as much as we can on its own before we go in for the surgery because how extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there.”
He later added, “We’re waiting till mid-July to do the surgery. Hopefully, it’s a normal neck fusion. It might not be, we don’t know.”
While Owens had been feeling fine for months, he revealed that his symptoms have suddenly returned with a vengeance in the last week. “My neck’s been fine. I’m not in pain. I have no symptoms of what you would expect somebody with a spinal cord injury have to have,” he said.
“In the last week, for some reason, the symptoms all came in one shot. Every symptom you’d expect me to have, the pain in the neck, the stuff going down the arms, the legs not really responding, it’s all been happening. So it’s been pretty f–king brutal. I can’t wait for the surgery.”
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