Two former WWE Champions are set to return from injury very soon.
Last year, fans witnessed former women’s tag-team champion Kairi Sane ruled out of the women’s Intercontinental Championship tournament. It was soon reported that Sane had suffered an arm injury and needed time to recover. Kairi Sane has now revealed that she suffered a torn thumb ligament that required surgery.
A few weeks later, tragedy struck the roster again. Former tag-team champion and Judgment Day member JD McDonagh was injured during a tag-match on Raw. During a suicide dive to the ringside, McDonagh crashed into the announcer’s table, ruling him out of action.
However, with both stars sidelined for nearly three to four months, a recent report by PWInsider.com noted that,
“The hope internally within WWE is that JD McDonagh and Kairi Sane will be returning soon to the ring.”
While Sane’s partner Asuka is also out with injury, JD McDonagh’s partners Finn Balor and Dominik Mysterio are rumored to be in the Intercontinental title match at WrestleMania 41.
JD McDonagh Opens Up On The Origin Of His WWE Name
Earlier this year, during his interview with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, JD McDonagh had opened up on his WWE in-ring name’s origin.
“They’re not too happy with you having your birth name as your wrestling. I kept it as close to home as possible. McDonagh is my mother’s maiden name, and then JD is Jordan Devlin.”
In the same interview, he also shared more details about his injuryrecovery,
“So they take a tube that’s about the diameter of your little finger, they poke a hole in between your ribs, and they stab it into your chest cavity. Because the lung had come away from the chest cavity and collapsed, they need to suck all the blood and air that’s leaking from your lung in your chest cavity out so that your lung can expand and stick back to the wall of your chest.
So I was on this suction pump pulling all the blood and air out for a day, obviously shallow breaths, like half lung fulls, and then they change it to a different machine with a lower form of suction, so there’s less suction helping my lungs stay inflated. They’re seeing if it would stay up. Did that for another day, and then they took me off the machine, took the tubes out, and my lungs stayed inflated and stayed stuck to my chest cavity so they let me go home [from hospital].
I was blessed by the way. We were in Atlanta, Georgia, the next state up from Florida. If I had been in Colorado, I’d still be driving home because I couldn’t fly. My lung would have popped.”
In other news: Goldberg has revealed the wrestler’s name he regrets not working with.