Tyson Kidd discusses his neck surgery and why he will not be able to wrestle again after it.
Tyson Kidd is one of several wrestlers to suffer catastrophic injuries to their neck, leading to him retiring much younger than he would of liked. Kidd is now unable to take simple bumps thanks to the injury and despite remaining a producer with WWE, he can show wrestlers everything up until the bump.
Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Kidd stated that he will never wrestle again.
“I mean, I know they say never say never. But I’ve said never for the last eight years. No, the truth is I can do probably in some things I can do like 99% of the move. I just can’t do the actual bump, or you know, and I’m sure maybe I could take a couple but at what cost? I don’t know, I haven’t taken one. So there is no point to me,”
“I get those messages a lot and I get that mindset. I understand where that comes from. I believe Steve Austin has the second highest, at least in terms of WWE wrestlers, in terms of how high their fusion is. His was, I think a C three and C four. Most of the normal one is like C five and six, or six and seven, mine C one and C two, the very top two vertebrae in your body minor fused. That’s the difference. That’s why even when it happened when I posted the picture of the scar, the staples in the back. One of the benefits of joining the broken neck club is, as I refer to it, Steve Austin becomes a friend of yours and he reaches out to you and your text and phone call all the time. But I posted that picture and within like 20 minutes, Austin was either calling me or texting me. And he’s like, Kid why did they go through the back? Why not through the front? And I explained what Steve it’s the equivalent of where they went is the equipment in my mouth. That’s when my fusion is adjacent to my mouth,”
Tyson Kidd
The injury occurred in a freak accident back in 2015 after a Muscle Buster from Samoa Joe.
Thank you to Chris Van Vliet for the quotes.
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