WWE Doctor Speaks on John Cena; Who is Prone to Injury?

The April edition of WWE Magazine features an interview with Dr. Chris Amann, one of the companies lead medical doctors that left his practice in 2008 to work full-time with WWE on the road. “Quite honestly, I wasn’t looking to leave the medical practice I’d built up pretty strong back in Chicago. But I had the opportunity to send WWE my résumé, and I did. A couple of weeks later, I went out for an interview at a TV taping in Albany.”

While Dr. Amann didn’t want to leave his practice to begin with, getting to work first-hand with the WWE Superstars and crew changed his mind. “I got a chance to see what went on behind the scenes and speak with the staff, learn the requirements. I was intrigued about having the chance to develop their sports-medicine program not to mention the job sounded like a bunch of fun. So I left my practice to join up with WWE.”

The WWE doctor wouldn’t speak on who specifically backstage was responsible for the most injuries, but he did mention WWE Superstar Kofi Kingston, saying “there was a period of time when the joke backstage was, ‘If you’re having a match with Kofi, you were going to end up with me.’ So I was seeing his opponents one after the other at one point! Then there are Superstars such as John Cena, who barely frequent the training room. But when a medical issue does come up, he’s good about letting us know.”