As previously noted, John Cena is injured and is likely to miss WrestleMania 32. The injury is believed to be a torn labrum or torn rotator cuff. It’s worth nothing that Cena’s training partner Cesaro recently had surgery for a torn rotator cuff and this continues the trend of shoulder injuries and surgeries with WWE in the last year or so.
Cena wanted to have the surgery soon as possible and rehab typically lasts six months following surgery. If this was anyone but Cena then we could say for certain that they would miss WrestleMania but Cena has shown amazing recuperative powers so anything is possible with him but it would be incredibly difficult to cut his rehab time in half so he could make it to WrestleMania. Cena had been dealing with a nagging shoulder problem and it got worse while training.
At one point there was a plan for The Undertaker vs. John Cena at WrestleMania but that was scrapped. When Seth Rollins went down with an injury in November, the WrestleMania plans changed to John Cena vs. Roman Reigns for the WWE title. Obviously, whatever the most recent plans were, have changed.
It’s interesting that Cena joins Cesaro, Hideo Itami, Mojo Rawley, Clayton Jack, Sami Zayn and others on the list of wrestlers that have dealt with shoulder injuries in the past year.
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