Dave Meltzer recaps the week in wrestling which includes his recap of WWE Backlash, all the latest WWE financials from Q1, the latest with AEW, and more.
Bear in mind the Meltzer margin of error as of late, but…
On the 1 hand: Yes, if he was injured, he really shouldn’t be cleared to wrestle.
On the other: Getting medically cleared isn’t always a binary. Look at Cody when he wrestled a year ago with his pec torn clean off the bone. Saki Kashima right now in Stardom is wrestling with an injured foot (but she also wrestles about 30 seconds in a 10min match so she can bluff through it). Depends entirely on what the real injury is and if he’s at the “Well…I mean you aren’t gonna fuck it up worse” stage.
I think its worth bearing in mind that professional sports people compete injured all the time, and “career ending” can mean a lot of different things.
Eg I don’t think we’re talking never be able to walk again type of injury - but it could just be something that he will lose range of motion, or be in pain until its fixed surgically and then once fixed he won’t be in pain or will have full motion but its not safe to risk the repair from that point on.
And, of course, the whole thing could be a work :)
But if that’s the case, then it’s disgustingly irresponsible to have been medically cleared.
It’s so much worse if this is legit.
On the 1 hand: Yes, if he was injured, he really shouldn’t be cleared to wrestle.
On the other: Getting medically cleared isn’t always a binary. Look at Cody when he wrestled a year ago with his pec torn clean off the bone. Saki Kashima right now in Stardom is wrestling with an injured foot (but she also wrestles about 30 seconds in a 10min match so she can bluff through it). Depends entirely on what the real injury is and if he’s at the “Well…I mean you aren’t gonna fuck it up worse” stage.
Fair point, my only counter would be that a pec tear isn’t career ending, but I get what you mean.
Good thing is the type of match was, for his injury, low risk. PLB was lots of walking around and Trent taking most of the bumps till the end.
I think its worth bearing in mind that professional sports people compete injured all the time, and “career ending” can mean a lot of different things.
Eg I don’t think we’re talking never be able to walk again type of injury - but it could just be something that he will lose range of motion, or be in pain until its fixed surgically and then once fixed he won’t be in pain or will have full motion but its not safe to risk the repair from that point on.
And, of course, the whole thing could be a work :)