WWE Superstar Xavier Woods, currently in a neck brace as part of a storyline injury, recently provided an update on his condition and voiced his frustrations with WWE management. Speaking on his birthday during an appearance on the Battleground podcast, Woods stated that his neck injury was made worse on the most recent episode of Monday Night Raw and called out General Manager Adam Pearce for what he perceives as a double standard.
“My neck is feeling terrible,” Woods began. “I don’t know if you watched Raw this past Monday night, but I was forced to wrestle even though my neck is injured. I had to take my neck brace off during the commercial break because the referee was accosting me about wearing it, as it was an illegal tool.”
He then described the move that exacerbated his injury during his match. “Penta jumped off of Ivar’s back and somehow attached his body to mine into an incredible Mexican destroyer that has only injured my neck even more,” he explained. “So now I don’t know where we even are in the recovery process.”
Woods’s primary frustration stems from what he sees as inaction from Raw General Manager Adam Pearce regarding the move that injured him. “Adam Pearce refuses, he absolutely refuses to ban this maneuver,” Woods said. “But he bans it when it happens to Cody. He bans it, it gets banned when it happens to Randy. But oh, but not me, not the 21-year vet, not the 15-year company guy, not the guy who delivers every single time.”
He connected this perceived slight to other opportunities he feels he has been denied by management. “I wonder why? Oh, because he doesn’t want to give us a rematch for the Tag Team Championships. Doesn’t want to give me a match for the IC title. I should have been IC champ years ago,” he stated. Click below to check out the interview.
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