8 wrestling moves that legitimately injured WWE Superstars

#4 WWE Superstar John Cena injured Sami Zayn with a Back Suplex

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Sami Zayn had a very successful run in WWE NXT, and he was introduced to RAW in early 2015 when he answered a United States Championship Open Challenge set up by John Cena.

Zayn was excited walking into the match in his hometown, and his entrance shenanigans led to his shoulder popping out. However, he was able to pop it back into place.

After the match began on WWE RAW, Cena Suplexed The Great Liberator, which led to his shoulder dislocating once again.

Zayn continued the match and came close to winning the WWE US Championship, but he ended up losing to Cena. Zayn spoke about his injury recently:

“I didn’t know what happened at the time because it happened so fast. It popped out and popped in right away. It happened so fast that I was in denial wondering if that just happened or did it just pop? Was it a crack or a pop? I didn’t even know what it was, but it scared me a little bit. When my arm went down, it was back in and everything seemed fine. It was my debut against John Cena, maybe the biggest star ever, in my hometown and I’m getting this amazing hero’s welcome. I get in the ring and I tell the ref and John Cena that I think my shoulder popped. At this point, I feel fine and we wrestle for about a minute. He gives me a back suplex and that’s when it’s out and it’s not getting back in. My arm was dead and I couldn’t roll and I think when I finally did roll, it went back in place.”

The Great Liberator competed against Kevin Owens a few nights later in WWE NXT, following which he was on the shelf for seven months due to the injury.