10 Wrestlers Who Returned From Injury And Then Immediately Got Injured

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Honorable mentions: 1. Rikishi. He suffered an eardrum injury in March of 2001. He returned to Smackdown on May 3rd only to injure his shoulder seventeen days later in a match with William Regal. 2. Paige. She underwent neck surgery in 2016 and returned in November 2017 only to reinjure her neck a month later at a house show. This forced her into retirement which of course was short-lived as she would wrestle again in AEW.

[@abhishekchaturvedi6981]

Also Jinder Mahal in 2020

[@darkrai436]

PAC as well is a very recent example.

[@AzureRoxe]

Short lived? She was retired for years.

[@randomlyentertaining8287]

Paige is an example of why Edge said bye for so long.

[@JPX64Channel]

@@randomlyentertaining8287 yeah but paige was also gone for long

[@labbaby189]

Bret is the saddest story on this list. In a world where Chris Jericho and Billy Gunn are still active, it's heartbreaking seeing how many dream matches we missed at least up until 2014. It wasn't even a butterfly effect thing, nothing about his early retirement changed much of anything... he could've walked in any storyline in the following decade.

[@Gary_Youtube1]

I think if bret didn't leave for WCW, probably would have wrestled until maybe 2004-5 at the most, probably earlier.

[@multiyapples]

@@Gary_KZbin1honestly we will never truly know.

[@vEoHsKe]

He was always a crybaby. He woulda been hogan 2.0

[@patrickvaughan3462]

@@vEoHsKe🛎️🔚

[@sixxjr]

@@vEoHsKe Not at all, Bret put up with mountains of bullshit in his career.

[@HorrorGirlNat]

Honestly even though he wasn't a returning wrestler McMahon climbing into the ring then suddenly falling tearing both his quads was amazing.

[@andrejg4136]

How tightly wound do you have to be to tear *both* quads doing something seemingly as simple as enter a pro wrestling ring? Answer: I guess jacked up senior citizen 'tightly wound'...

[@molasorrosalom4846]

From what I remember, he said that he told them to also fix his knees during the surgery as well. Afterwards, when he finally recovered, he said he felt so much better.

[@JH-lk8tm]

Tegan legit had a bad streak of luck 😢

[@Siciliancivilian]

I remember in the match against rhea the crowd was DED SILENT and you could hear Tegan crying, sobbing and even audiblly praying to God and begging for the moment to not be real. It was Sooooo heart breaking 😢

[@unholyperiodza5442]

Pretty muchh the Marty Jannety Disease she got

[@RuanAntunes7]

This has got to be one the worst things that can happen to a wrestler. Imagine waiting months to recover from an injury and finally being cleared to return to the ring only to suffer another injury mere minutes after your return.

[@mehgend3914]

The ramifications that the CM Punk injuries had on the entire wrestling world is crazy

[@FatherJacksBrick]

2 injuries, and one person who decided to “shooty shoot brother brother” led to what is known as the Butterfly Effect.😂

[@GZP1023]

He hasnt mattered since his injuries

[@aS-df8zj]

Who?

[@Gary_Youtube1]

The best in the world!

[@skinsman82000]

Lol. ​@@Gary_KZbin1

[@newageoutlaw]

So many injuries... Grateful for those that have been able to recover.

[@Hallofshame-f7x]

Kevin nash is the kid named quad 😂

[@brendanb2982]

Sean Walt-uh

[@VileSyndicxte]

I'll never forget Christian's ankle injury. He messed it up doing a simple baseball slide- Something he'd done, literally, hundreds of times before. No big bump. No crazy two-person spot. This was the first injury that really made me realize, 'Wow, sh!t can seriously go sideways ANY given moment.'

[@WrestlingCompilations]

You do feel sorry sometimes for those who end up getting considered as injury prone

[@BmanTheChamp]

Especially if some get repeated chances when others don't.

[@Brown87]

What I find interesting is people who are labelled "injury prone" and then subsequently lose their jobs as a result; Batista, on the other hand, was a good buddy of Triple H and therefore was given unlimited chances to recover and return 😁 Seamus, in his early days with the company, was considered very clumsy in the ring and was hurting a lot of people in the ring; he was Triple H's gym buddy at the time and convinced Vince to give him more time and more opportunities to hone his craft 😌 Triple H even went as far as to say "I'll work with him" to avoid Seamus working with (and hurting) anyone else 😎

[@SecretMagician]

For real, Samoa Joe is someone i could have seen as a future multiple-time WWE and/or Universal Champion.

[@LibraJohnny]

Bryan Danielson survived to two injuries and a retirement and is currently giving us a fantastic run.

[@m.ta.r.6443]

Didn't he recently get injured again?

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@m.ta.r.6443 Broke his arm against Okada.

[@LibraJohnny]

@@m.ta.r.6443 It doesn't seem to keep it from the ring.

[@Kiernanglynn20]

Broken arm and orbital bone. AEW really beats their guys up

[@molasorrosalom4846]

What else does he have to prove? These guys never know when to hang it up.

[@paulmeade4862]

I met Kevin Nash at an autograph signing the day before he tore his quad

[@GinkgoPete]

This could be a comment about any Autograph signing he's ever been at

[@Trekapedia]

Poor Cora Jade as well. She just got back and got hurt again. She’s one of the nicest people and I hope her comeback after this will be even more successful.

[@GinkgoPete]

Esp now that her dad is working with the company

[@waderace4084]

I remember when Chris Sabin kept getting injured in TNA. He was one of my favorites so it stuck with me

[@TubbyJ420]

He tore an acl in one knee, had it rebuilt with parts from a body donor. Came back after 12 months, and on his first match back tore the acl in the other knee. Out another 10 months i think. I know the first match was a singles match, because alex shelly was out with a broken collar bone. There was literally 2 years+ of no motor city machine guns.

[@silverdirewolf6440]

You forgot to mention the last injury Ahmed Johnson got in the WWE when he got mauled by a bear (Ron Simmons) and had to be helped to the back.

[@kenjamin9147]

4:48 'Right Kevin, from now on try not to skip leg day.' 'What the heck's leg day?'

[@sdonagmac2293]

Watching this video will make you appreciate The Miz even more and appreciate that promo on Talking Smack where he dressed down Daniel Bryan and told him that he (Miz) has NEVER been injured in his entire career because he wrestles SAFE. I appreciate Miz

[@PhysicalMediaPreventsWea-bx1zm]

Kevin Nash tore his quad watching this video

[@Disxreet]

Adam, you can say hospital now. Vince has been forbidden.

[@unholyperiodza5442]

You forgot Jeff Hardy when he returned to WWE in 2018, he won the US title, lost it to Shinsuke Nakamura, randomly got in a feud with Randy Orton here he got his ear drilled and his skull fractured after a punt kick.

[@kvonjaco]

Thank you for your service guys : )

[@badjokecoke]

"Washington Bulldog Davey Boy Bautista" Idk why but that got me 💀

[@gerardorodriguez7858]

Honestly, I hope that when Joe retires, he comes back as a commentator. He was fantastic at it.

[@BmanTheChamp]

Even now whenever Drew McIntyre hits his headbutt all I can hear in my head is Joe yelling "GIVE US A KISS!"

[@jamesjohn5334]

The nick Wayne shot 😂 that kid is talented. Saw him wrestle for GCW in LA couple years back

[@dcb_75]

It isn't immediately but didn't Batista also come back from injury, get booked in a ppv that was like 2 weeks away, win the title and then lost it the next night on Raw to I think Jericho because he had gotten injured again? That's what happens when you use those vitamins to get big - the muscle is weak and tears easily, explains why Big Dave was so injury prone.

[@dcb_75]

@@urbaindelva7869 oh no, he was up and down in size a lot - he never shrunk like some guys but you can see changes. For someone who was usually the powerhouse in the match and didn't have to sell, he sure seems to get hurt a lot and a lot of tears and such.

[@jzuany]

Now CM Punk too. His first televised match since his return was the Royal Rumble and the torn his triceps.

[@llynellyn]

Speaking of Mason Ryan, the new Gladiators reboot is pretty good (the last reboot was the show that got the careers of Mason Ryan and Nick Aldis started).

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

A common time for athletes (and bodybuilders like pro wrestlers) to get injured is right after they take a break: they are hyped up and try to go 100% immediately right after getting back, when they haven't built back up to their old 100%.

[@donovanbradford8231]

yeah early in Batista's career he got injured a lot. In 02 after he and Reverend D-Von slip in the summer Batista disappeared, the was announced for the WWE tag title tournament of that year teaming with D-Von only to suddenly be replaced by Ron Simmons which makes me think he was still injured. Batista would then pop up on Raw managed by Ric Flair in late November or December only to by February get injured along with Randy Orton in that infamous house against the Dudley's. But in the end life worked out for Dave.

[@stingrey1571]

Batista was just too big. He was roided out to the extreme. His muscles were just too big for his tendons.

[@molasorrosalom4846]

Yeah, fake popcorn muscles, he also thought he could fight and got the crap beat out of him by Booker T.

[@KEHEffC]

Tegan Nox is someone who I'd love to be a fan of if she could just stay healthy, but I can't because she won't. She needs to stop using knee strikes like her "Shiniest Wizard" finisher and start adjusting based on her own capabilities. Like honestly, what's the definition of insanity? To me, it's continuing to work your own knees after you've torn and destroyed them on multiple occasions.

[@user-wh6sp6st8s]

Dave Batista goes to my gym and has for years. Lives down the street from me, and his daughter went to my school when I was there. He is the largest man I have ever seen in person...and I have friends in the nfl.

[@bradleysmoke1556]

He was so happy to make that hospital joke. 🤣

[@JonDoe-t8f]

Great video work on your outtro though I swear I thought my phone froze. I had it playing in the background.

[@keltrepes2534]

I laughed my ass off at The Washington Bulldog Davey Boy Batista.😂

[@Dr_1212]

Support all wrestling 👍

[@Deltrottersvan]

Support all (elite) wrestling (not WWE) 👍🏿

[@Sunprism]

I like that Christian's injury photo could easily be a still from his stint of throwing tantrums in the ring

[@1Vivi007]

1:01 executives: nice, nice, nice but….does it come in Snooki?

[@Kyle-gi2jb]

Kevin Nash in more ways than one: "Carry me, please?" 😂

[@joevanweedler]

I recently hurt my wrist pulling the garbage can to house, hit a bump and it just twisted it weird. Thought nothing of it but it kept me from working out for almost 3 months. Injuries suck

[@caifabe8050]

apparently Cora Jade is injured again. so.... great timing on the video lmao

[@lilpoetat]

Thanks 🎉

[@martezdetroit3164]

Ricky Martel in WcW could be in the list

[@MetalMadness_00]

Where’s Paige? she came back from a year long injury came back and got injured and was forced to retire shortly after

[@LUKE2KOFFICIAL]

WHAT IF FINN BALOR NEVER GOT INJURED AT SUMMERSLAM HOW WOULD EVERYBODY BOOK THAT

[@SirAsdf]

Top Flight must have a witch's curse cast upon them because every time one of them comes back from injury and they get another run going, the other brother gets injured in some horrific manner. I think they've had 5 injuries between them in 3 years?

[@The_Razielim]

I'm a little sketchy on the timing, was this list put out before, after, or around the same time as the Punk/Cody match (his first major match coming back to WWE), only to tear his tricep again (was it the same one he previously injured, or was it the *other* one this time?)

[@molasorrosalom4846]

No idea, but isn't he like 45 years old?

[@killwalker]

1:20 is that current AEW Ref, Aubrey??

[@gehtdianschasau8372]

It's not Nashes fault, that he got injured so often. That's a problem many freakishliy tall people have. It's a miracle, how the Taker and Big Slow could do this job for so long. I don't know abaut Paul, but Taker had knee troubles, and Khali moved like a Zombie in his later years.

[@DBoy38]

Big Show/Paul Wight surely developed knee issues, as he clearly changed the way he normally would deliver the Chokeslam. During his time in WCW and his early days in the WWF he would land on his knee, but over time he stopped doing that and would started to deliver it more like Undertaker or Kane.

[@KingBrahma-xw6mt]

Bret was already concussed before he faced Goldberg

[@thelonewolf70x7]

AND, he kept wrestling AFTER the fact as well, not following the doctors advices, AND, wrestled in a hardcore match against TERRY FUNK, of all people. Bret screwed Bret in the end.

[@DemiB5030]

Stiff Goldberg screwed him

[@CadChamberlain]

The Shane McMahon injury was hilarious though

[@AcoylteKraven82]

6:36- Yeah, besides the issues with injuries I’m pretty sure his career was starting to smell like a dead fish after he joined the NOD (his biggest rivals in WWF)! The injuries just made it come faster, and made it more official

[@0PhillMC0]

Cora jade now belongs here.

[@robw5741]

If ahmed johnson hadnt had injury we may have never had the rocl

[@nightowl7261]

Thumbnail and title is hilarious

[@lewisgrant7622]

Bruh. Goldberg is just a fcking injury machine and HADNT EVEN TRAINED TO BE A PROFESSIONAL WRESTLER. Like he couldn’t even wrestle which is his why his matches always ended quickly

[@sha-roncurtis7652]

In a touching tribute to hero Adam you are a genius and truly funny

[@jordangoodwin9951]

How’d Chelsea green get left off of here this list is a sham

[@Sunprism]

I have to admit, I still want Mr KEN E DEY to come back from the strength of his in ring promos alone

[@CollateralCurse]

I love how every time Bret Hart is mentioned in these kinds of lists, they only mention the kick. Never the botched figure four on the ring post where he cracked his skull against that, or the fact that one of those matches he had afterwards was a _fucking hardcore match against Terry Funk._ Or, if they do, it's a throw away comment. Fucking unreal. But sure, blame the green guy who shouldn't have been put in that match to begin with.

[@colin6603]

Found the Goldberg burner account

[@thelonewolf70x7]

@colin6603 He's saying the truth, worSHEEPer. And I'm far from beign a Goldberg fanboy or something.

[@mr.russell5395]

Ahmed Johnson in '97. Man stayed getting injured 😆

[@russellschwartz3912]

The Washington bulldog Davey Boy Batista is my new favorite name.

[@michaelmercury1297]

Mr.Kennedy had potential.

[@dirt007]

Batista was promoted as a the future with Randy. While in reality he's older than Trips.

[@Brown87]

"It probably wasn't the best idea to book Bret in a no DQ match with Terry Funk straight after a concussion"; yes, because WCW cared about that kind of stuff (!) 😆

[@MrML4L]

Kennedy actually got 2 HARDWAYS that match with Batista. He got thrown into the post a few minutes later.

[@tafua_a]

I'm kinda tired to hear that Bret's career was ended by "a single kick to the head" when: 1) that wasn't the only concussion he suffered in that match (Stevie Richards speculates that he got his first concussion a few moments earlier), and 2) he had that hardcore match with Terry "I Started Doing Moonsaults Aged 50 And Went To Wrestle Deathmatches In Japan" Funk, which can't have helped his cerebral health.

[@MoneyHoneyBunny]

Tegan Nox and Dakota Kai were known as Team Kick, which is ironic cause every time they kick they hurt something in their legs. I love DK too shes 1 of my faves, really sucks to see. Chris Sabin has had 3 ACL tears too, 2 being back to back. Why wasn't that on this list? CHRIS SABIN LITERALLY MISSED A YEAR FROM AN ACL TEAR, WRESTLED ZIMA ION, AND RE TORE IT IN HIS FIRST MATCH BACK. THIS SHOULD BE LIKE #1 LOL

[@dustinmichel7608]

Cm punk is going to lead this list eventually

[@stingrey1571]

Batista was sooo roided out, for a part of his career, he only wrestled 6 months at a time. The other six months he was rehabbing some sort of torn muscle.

[@molasorrosalom4846]

Didn't he tear a muscle by just falling one time???

[@TheEarney]

Kevin Nash watched this video.....and tore a quad

[@deandrenicholas2545]

Kevin Nash could tear a quad from a case of the hiccups...lol! Still my guy, Big Sexy.

[@namikstudios]

Stop saying Goldberg gave Hart the concussion when it is obvious from watching the Starrcade match that Bret gave himself the concussion by botching a figure four around the ring posts earlier in the match, smashing the back of his head on the ground really hard and being visibly concussed from then on. Bret was in a very bad way long before the superkick. It was never Goldberg's fault.

[@wintertrooper7918]

Bro everyone knows Goldberg botched superkick literally gave him a massive concussion

[@chrisbuttonshaw2088]

I'm not disagreeing with the concept, but giving yourself one IMMEDIATELY followed by another doesn't help. Ups the severity

[@chuey04]

Everytime I hear the name Mason Ryan all I hear is that song

[@RuanAntunes7]

He looked like Batista but unfortunately for him that’s where the similarities ended 😂

[@JG603YouTube]

Crazy to think Bryan is still wrestling after all he went through!

[@TheForeverRanger]

For those keeping count, Aubrey Edwards shows up twice on this list.

[@borobinson7005]

I never knew takashi snitchnine had a twin sister 😹

[@CardPlayingStrategies]

Honorable Mention: Rey Fenix

[@mattheweubanks6163]

These Kevin Nash jokes are about 17 years old

[@standardofexcellence]

Jerry Lawler and Bill Clinton have entered the chat

[@Psychology]

If only his quad lasted that long

[@denbrew_]

I was at the raw when Nash got hurt again

[@wintertrooper7918]

That doesn't narrow it down... that's like saying "I was at the Raw when Hornwoggle came out from under the ring" lol

[@happyhoildays2010]

Quads jokes let’s go 😂😂😂😂

[@AgreeableComb]

Damn... hope Cora Jade don't see this video

[@phils.5060]

After seeing Nash with those thin legs of his it no longer makes me wonder, why those were his weak spots!

[@chunkyboyjames]

Mr Kennedy was partially responsible for his own demise as he failed the wellness policy twice which cost him his position on the roster.

[@wintertrooper7918]

It also doesn't help that prior to that he had made a whole spiel about how all these other wrestlers used steroids while he is 100% clean

[@molasorrosalom4846]

Come on, so many wrestlers are on the sauce. Even after the "wellness" policy.

[@goldtaker95]

4:48 you can tell why nash had so much leg problems: dude simply didn't train his legs, only upper body. having to carry his huge weight, the untrained legs gave up

[@mydnyghtamethyst]

His one knee was already shot before he even got into wrestling due to an injury that ended his basketball career. Not much he could do when his legs were already fucked before he stepped in the ring for the first time.

[@southernhillscreative1920]

Mr Kennedy reminds me of Dane Cook

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

Bret Hart being injured basically made HBK the blueprint for kids today & is the main reason why the Young Bucks style is preferred to MJF. MJF will always make more money, but the Punks, FTRs, & others of the world are in the minority. There arent enough of them to carry a company into a new era of 1980s-2002. We are going to be stuck with A LOT of trash for a long time because of that.

[@dr.floridamanphd]

Ahmed Johnson’s last injury in WWF was caused by Ron Simmons as a receipt for hurting him several months earlier. Yeah. Farooq worked him over worse than Perry Saturn treated the jobbers 😂

[@LibraJohnny]

I wonder if Punk's misfortunes in AEW influenced WWE's decision to keep away from the ring (apart in one live event match).

[@jasond2831]

4:49 Looks like Kevin Nash has been skipping leg days

[@wweiceman]

Candice Michelle as well. She lost a big Wrestlemania match as a result

[@ShoehornBundy]

Im bringing in the virus, the NWO. Nash: match one injured, match two injured.

[@jameslahey2005]

I honestly believe most of Bryan's injuries are just faked

[@veryananduren8513]

Well, that was sad...

[@justinconn1214]

Hate when legends return leave shortly after. And similar siturations

[@AquamentusLives]

No Rick Martel in WCW?

[@standardofexcellence]

This gonna be half the aew roster this year

[@Kadaitchi]

They did Mason dirty LMAO

[@michaelpagnotti4131]

I’m making this before watching I hope Shane’s somewhere, because why shouldn’t it be?

[@multiyapples]

Tegan Nox has bad luck with her time in WWE.

[@LordSStorm]

Of course it would be Kevin Nash