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One of the veterans in the world of professional wrestling is the Celtic Warrior Sheamus. The multiple-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion has suffered multiple injuries throughout his career. Recently he opened up about his recent injuries.
Recently while speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, Sheamus shared that he was sidelined due to a neck injury. Initially, the Celtic Warrior thought that it was a career-ending injury but then he managed to have surgery and returned to the ring as well.
“This time last year I was sitting on the on the sidelines coming back from what I thought could have been a career-ending neck injury. People don’t realize I went through a lot of procedures, a lot of physical therapy, and I couldn’t move my neck. I went in. I got cortisone shots, I went to see spine surgeon specialists, and then I thought it was good. Then I went back in the ring, and I took a bump and I kept getting stingers, so it wasn’t looking good. Then eventually I got my nerves burned in the back of my neck. And even then, it took a while for that all to settle down. But I literally thought that was it.”
Sheamus could not move his neck the day after his match against Edge
Sheamus recalled the exact moment he suffered the injury. It was during his match against Adam Copeland on SmackDown. It was back in August of 2023 and it was the final match for Copeland in WWE.
“Just over time, took one big bump in the last one before I went away in my last match. I think it was Edge’s last match. I just took an awkward fall, and that itself just I woke up the next morning and thought my neck was broken, just because, again, me and Edge were just knocking the sh*te out of each other, just took a bad fall on the ground. At the time I felt it, but I just worked through it. Then the next day I woke up, it was not good, and it just didn’t go away. I just could not move my neck. And then after that I was trying to work through and then I didn’t know. I didn’t know how serious it was. I just thought it might be something. Because over time, just wear and tear, especially how I work.”
Sheamus on recovery and ‘making sure he has completely recovered’
“For example, when I had my first major surgery where I tore my shoulder at the Money in the Bank match. I was out for well, supposed to be six months, but I got ready in three months. I tore my labrum and my left shoulder. So I came back, and the first thing I did was take the hardest post on my shoulder and Flair was in the back going, you’re lunatic, what are you doing? You just had shoulder surgery and you’re hitting the post 100 miles an hour. I said, Yeah, I gotta make sure it works. You know, gotta make sure it’s all right. You gotta test it out.
“It’s like when someone has something or injury, you gotta just go head first into it. You gotta go make sure you get that fear out of your way. So, yeah, so I took a post 100 miles an hour, but that’s just the kind of mentality me. But, yeah, it was touch and go. There was a couple of times Pete Dunne was there. He was in and out of NXT. So it was Ridge. They both helped, Ridge and Pete really helped me out back in January, February. But there was, I was work with Fit and I couldn’t even take a bump, like even a headlock takeover. I didn’t know whether or not I’d be back,” Sheamus said.
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