Cesaro Out of Action For the Next Four to Six Months

Update: Cesaro’s injury is far worse than originally thought and the surgery will take him out of action for the next four to six months.

The King of swing spoke with WWE.com today about his injury, surgery, and recovery. You can read the full interview right here. Below are some of the highlights:

You said you’ve been working through the injury, not knowing how bad it was. Would you classify the situation as gradual?

I knew something was wrong [for a while], but I thought that it was just sprained or something like that. So, I iced it and had it looked at. I was like, “Oh, I have range of motion” and didn’t necessarily have too much of a loss of strength, so I knew something got hurt, but I didn’t think it was injured, if that makes sense. I kept working out and working [in the ring] obviously, and it kept getting better, but there was still something lingering. Then I thought, “Maybe if I were to know exactly what it is, it will be easier to rehab and get it better” … and then I found out it’s a complete tear. [Laughs] So, no matter how much rehab I do, it will not reattach itself to the bone, unfortunately.

But you went into that appointment having no idea of the injury’s extent?

Exactly. I got the MRI done and was like, “Okay, cool, this will help me with how to rehab and get back to full strength.” But then I got the call the next day saying, “Hey, you tore a tendon and partially tore another one.” [Laughs]

When is surgery scheduled?

Yeah, so here’s the good part: Thanks to the quickness of WWE, I went to see the doctor this morning and will have surgery this afternoon. The faster the better for me, because the sooner I have surgery, the sooner I’ll be back. Luckily, they got me in before Thanksgiving.

Do you have any timetable on when you may return, or is it too soon to say?

It’s pretty much up in the air, and I don’t want to be quoted on a timeframe. I think the official timeframe I was told was like four to six months, but that all depends on how surgery goes, how my rehab goes and so forth.

Original: It looks like WWE has added Cesaro’s name to the ever growing list of talents currently injured on their roster right now. It was ridiculous when Seth Rollins went down, but now even Cesaro has been taken down by an injury. 

Jim Ross reported about Cesaro’s injury on Twitter with the following:

httpss://twitter.com/JRsBBQ/status/668555593775353856?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

WWE has not officially confirmed Cesaro’s injury and surgery have not been confirmed as of this writing, but it’s been known for awhile that Cesaro has been working through a shoulder injury.

The Swiss Superman was scheduled to compete in the Traditional “Survivor Series” Elimination Tag Team Match on the “Survivor Series” pre-show last night. It’s believed that Cesaro’s injury got worse as a result of his quarterfinal match against Roman Reigns during the WWE Championship tournament last week on Raw.

During Smackdown’s tapings last week, Cesaro also worked a match against The Miz, but the match was very short. It is now being reported that Cesaro was not backstage at the “Survivor Series” PPV last night, nor is he currently on the road with WWE.

The hope for Cesaro is any surgery he needs will not require much time to heal, and he’ll be back in the ring by “Royal Rumble” barring any setbacks in his recovery.