Trent Beretta looks back on his time doing mocap work for WWE 2K.
The AEW star is one of the top names on their roster for work rate and is a member of The Best Friends. He has had his share of injuries over the years, dealing with some serious neck issues to name but one of those injuries.
Speaking to Chris Jericho on Talk Is Jericho, Trent revealed the origin of his neck issues started with WWE 2K16 motion capture.
“It was on a crash pad, it didn’t even have to be the move it was. They just needed a move where, we started on shoulders with a fireman’s carry, did four moves where the guy on top slips behind, we did four different moves with reversals. Somebody said dragon suplex. Luckily, it was on a crash pad, but it was a guy, I don’t think he did dragon suplexes, and he threw it how you would throw a german, with a high arc, but he had my neck instead of my waist, so I landed right on top of my head on a crash pad. It wasn’t like ‘oh no, I can’t wrestle.’ It just slow, over five or six years, got worse and worse,”
“The pec was three months. As I’m getting ready to come back, I started noticing my neck really bothering me. I came back and it was one or two matches. My fingers were tingling all the time, but the main thing was a constant pain in my trap. A constant burning pain. Once it started affecting my sleep is when I said, ‘Shit I have to get this checked out.’ At the time, I was having trouble swallowing, just randomly, it’d be a struggle to swallow. I was waking up having dreams that I was drowning, wake up gasping for air. I thought it was sleep apnea. I never got it checked out. After surgery, I guess there was so much extra bone and shit, when they cleaned it up, it all went away,”
Trent Beretta
Trent underwent neck fusion surgery back in 2021, returning from the injury to take on the Super Kliq alongside the rest of The Best Friends.
Trent will be part of Stadium Stampede at AEW All In later this week.
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