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People really though a fitness buff like Big E was going to come back looking like Orton when he temporarily got off the pills.


Looks like 80 percent of the aew rosterPeople really though a fitness buff like Big E was going to come back looking like Orton when he temporarily got off the pills.
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I never thought about that. That's a good question.I am starting to wonder if Big E's neck really was in bad shape before the injury. Kind of like Misawa's death where his neck was in bad shape from many years of in-ring drops. Maybe not to Misawa's extent, but one where one good drop easily broke it.
i mean they are letting that shyt heal naturally because the other options to speed/heal the process would end his in ring career for sureIn an interview with the Battleground podcast (via Fightful), Big E gave an update on his neck injury and noted that he had his one-year scan recently. He suggested that due to the complexity of the injury, his in-ring future is still uncertain.
He said: “It’s just a complicated fracture. I broke my C1 and C2 in two places, a Jefferson fracture is what it’s called. It just takes a little more time to heal. We just did the one year scans after WrestleMania, it was a little later because of WrestleMania. We need to sit down with the doctors at some point and figure out what the next step is. From my perspective, I feel great, I have no function issues, no pain issues, I’ve been in the gym since two weeks after I broke my neck. I’m feeling great. Obviously, your neck has to be in a certain condition to deal with the rigors of being in the ring on a nightly basis.“
I can think of at least three separate occasions where he almost broke his neck by fukking up the suicide dive through the middle rope, so it wouldn’t surprise me one bit if his neck was already in dreadful conditionI am starting to wonder if Big E's neck really was in bad shape before the injury. Kind of like Misawa's death where his neck was in bad shape from many years of in-ring drops. Maybe not to Misawa's extent, but one where one good drop easily broke it.