Details Surrounding Tyson Kidd’s Near-Fatal Injury

A new edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter has provided further details surrounding Tyson Kidd’s near-fatal injury that he suffered during a pre-“RAW” dark match with Samoa Joe in June. As previously reported, Kidd was forced to undergo surgery for the issue almost immediately, and will miss up to 14 months of in-ring action.

Kidd posted the following message on Twitter on July 6, explaining the severity of the injury. Only five percent of people who suffer the neck injury he did survive. He writes,

 

5% of people survive this injury. 16 staples, 4 screws and a rod later and luckily I survived to tell my story. pic.twitter.com/hXpXpA0aAF

— TJ Wilson (@KiddWWE) July 7, 2015

 

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter goes on to expand on this claim, saying,

“Kidd made a tweet about his injury, which ended up being far worse than anyone knew. He said that only about five percent of the people who get the injury he suffered survive.

I was told from someone close to the situation that was legit, and that it was right after suffering the injury, in the hospital in Texas, that the doctors first told him he was lucky to be alive.

After surgery, he was told by the doctors that it was because the injury was so high in the neck that in most cases such an injury would be fatal, but he survived because he was an athlete who had such a muscular neck. The operation included putting in 16 staples, four screws and a rod.”

WrestlingRumors.net continues to wish TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd) a full and speedy recovery.