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The past year has been tough for these five WWE Superstars as they suffered serious injuries.
Although pro wrestling is scripted, things sometimes go wrong, and superstars suffer injuries. Like any physical sport, wrestlers could also get hurt during training.
Many WWE Superstars have sustained injuries in the past 12 months. They have varied in their seriousness. While some wrestlers returned to the ring shortly after, others were left out of action for several months.
SmackDown has recently welcomed a superstar who has just returned from a serious injury. It came on the same day that another top wrestler got hurt and will be out for nine months.
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Injuries have also forced WWE to change its plans for the upcoming pay-per-view, Money in the Bank. A title match had to be taken off the card after the number one contender sustained a serious injury.
Here are five WWE Superstars who have suffered serious injuries in the past year.
#5. WWE Superstar Tegan Nox
Tegan Nox has suffered several injuries throughout her career and since joining WWE in 2017. Her latest injury came last September when WWE announced that the 26-year-old had suffered a torn ACL.
Although she was injured away from the cameras, WWE wrote Nox off television by having Candice LeRae attack her backstage on NXT. The two had been feuding, and WWE worked Nox's injury into the storyline.
Nox's injury cost her a shot at the NXT Women's Championship. WWE had to pull her from a Battle Royal to determine the number one contender for the NXT Women's title.
The Girl with the Shiniest Wizard remained out of action for ten months. She recently returned at NXT's The Great American Bash event to distract Candice LeRae & Indi Hartwell during their NXT Women's Tag Team title match against Io Shirai and Zoey Stark. The distraction cost LeRae and Hartwell their titles.
Three days later, Nox made a surprising debut on SmackDown alongside Shotzi Blackheart. On their first night on the blue brand, they defeated the Women's Tag Team Champions Tamina and Natalya.
While Tamina and Natalya have been feuding with Mandy Rose and Dana Brooke over the past few weeks, it appears they have two new challengers for their titles.
#4. WWE Superstar MVP
Last February, MVP teamed up with Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander on WWE Monday Night RAW to take on Riddle and Lucha House Party. During the match, it appeared that MVP had suffered an injury. He appeared on RAW Talk after the show and was using crutches to get around.
Reports later revealed that MVP had suffered a knee injury. The former United States Champion gave an update on his injury:
"As many of you know, my knee has been bothering me for a while now. While it is better, it hasn’t fully healed yet. We’ve been trying to avoid surgery, so we’re gonna try one more procedure. If that doesn’t work either, I might have to get some minor arthroscopic surgery for the knee but, not yet. We’re still gonna try another treatment first," MVP said on an episode of El Brunch de WWE in April.
Although he continued to play his role as Bobby Lashley's manager on WWE RAW, MVP remained out of action for nearly five months. He recently returned to in-ring competition when he teamed up with Lashley to take on The New Day. They lost the match after Kofi Kingston hit MVP with the Trouble in Paradise and pinned him.
#3. WWE Superstar Riddick Moss
Riddick Moss signed a developmental contract with WWE in 2014, but it was not until 2020 that he made his main roster debut. Moss debuted on Monday Night RAW in January last year. He joined forces with then-24/7 champion Mojo Rawley. However, he turned on his partner nearly a month later and pinned him to capture the title.
Moss reigned as 24/7 Champion for 41 days before losing his title to R-Truth in March. The 31-year-old did not compete again on the red brand until August. He returned to fight on RAW Underground. He also competed in a few Main Event episodes. His last match came on September 28, when he defeated Erik on Main Event.
In October 2020, Riddick Moss announced that he had been wrestling for the past two months with a torn ACL:
"Over the past 2 months, Riddick Moss has gone undefeated in both #RawUnderground and the #WWEThunderdome, showing elite power, speed, agility, and explosion. While training, I’ve squatted 500, deadlifted 600, and broad jumped over 10’. I have done all of this with a torn ACL," he said in a post on Instagram.
In his post, Moss hinted at a major comeback to WWE soon. However, nine months later, he is yet to return to the ring.
#2. WWE Superstar The Miz
The Miz is one of the top WWE Superstars on Monday Night RAW. However, he recently suffered a major setback. During his zombie lumberjack match against Damian Priest at WrestleMania Backlash, The Miz tore his ACL.
The former WWE Champion recently criticized reports that suggested he would be out of action for nine months:
"I’ve never said anything and they’re saying things wrong, like all wrong. And it’s annoying, I guess you can say, because I heard I was out nine months. I don’t expect to be out nine months," The Miz told Forbes.
The Miz continues to appear on Monday Night RAW despite his injury. He accompanies John Morrison to the ring in a wheelchair. Nonetheless, it is not yet clear when he will return to in-ring competition:
"When will I have a real match? I don’t know. That’s for the doctors to decide and figure out. But I feel like a million bucks, and the way my headspace is, I don’t like to be gone for long," The Miz said.
This year has seen some ups and downs for The Miz. His highest point came when he cashed in his Money in the Bank contract on Drew McIntyre to capture the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber.
#1. WWE Superstar Bayley
Bayley is the latest to join the list of injured WWE Superstars. WWE announced last Friday that the number one contender for the SmackDown Women's Championship suffered a serious injury during training.
According to reports, The Role Model was training with another WWE Superstar when her knee popped. Preliminary backstage reports suggest she may have suffered a torn ACL. WWE confirmed Bayley could be out of action for nine months.
The former SmackDown Women's Champion addressed her injury in a promo on SmackDown. She blamed the WWE Universe for her setback:
"You don't care at all! You don't care that I'm hurt, I did this to get better for Money in the Bank, I did this to be the best, I did this for you!" Bayley said. "So this? Yeah, this is all your fault! And I don't give a damn who they put in my place because they are not as good as me."
Bayley's injury came at a bad time as she was about to face Bianca Belair for the SmackDown Women's Championship at Money in the Bank. WWE canceled the match and scheduled another between Belair and Carmella for the title next Friday on the blue brand instead.
