Wednesday, June 11, 2008

WWE Superstar Injuries: HBK? Lance Cade? Undertaker?

Ok, is there a conspiracy to injure my favorite WWE superstars? [sigh] If I wanted to see people legitimately beat the crap outta each other, I'd watch Jerry Springer re-runs (sorry, couldn't resist). I have no delusions that my opinions are important enough to warrant any such conspiracy, so moving on...

Lance Cade - According to Wrestle Zone, Lance Cade was in a dark match during the 6/9 Raw (dark as in before the TV cameras were rolling I assume) against "American Dragon" Bryan Danielson (who?). During the match, Cade appeared to have hurt his shoulder. Cade is my fave hopefully-up-and-coming heel, so please oh please let this be minor and not something that keeps him outta the ring.

HBK - According to the same article in Wrestle Zone, HBK appeared to have been genuinely hurt after Chris Jericho used HBK's head to make a statement about turning heel. Details from the live event in the article indicated "Some EMTs were brought out and his eye seemed messed up." I do remember thinking that HBK looked in actual pain, so hope there was no damage to HBK's face/eye. If he's actually hurt, I'll feel bad for having been so judgemental about that horrid tank top. Eck.

Big Show - No wrestling for my sweet big man until Night of Champions. [sniffle sniffle] (see other post)

Undertaker - After his match with Edge at One Night Stand, Undertaker's arm looked to be cut and bleeding. No word that it is anything big though. He's traveling with WWE to Australia/New Zealand so can't be too bad. Don't want him hurtin', cuz he's coming back to WWE. Power of positive thinking... Undertaker will be back... Undertaker will be back...

Randy Orton - Last Monday night Raw without Randy was... well... lacking. He's very talented and plays really well against all of the good guys (and guys we aren't quite sure are good). And... ok I'll admit... the man is just downright gorgeous. No updates on his injury on WWE.com, but Randy submitted an update via his randy-orton.com fan site to say:

i have a compression break of my left collarbone. surgery wont speed the recovery process, nor strengthen it. i will be out 2 to 3 months. pretty [expletives omitted] yes, but.... i get to witness the birth of my first born child!! you can find positive in anything!

thanks for your concern everyone, its truly an honor to read all your well wishes, u guys are fantastic fans and friends!

rko


I know there are many more great superstars with injuries and personal struggles (hang in there Jimmy Wang Yang) and I wish them all well. (William Regal - come back soon to annoy us!) Sitting here blogging from the safe comfort of my desk chair, I am thankful for all of the hard work (and pain endured) from the superstars and WWE staff that bring us these programs each week. Yeah, I know... I'm sappy.

Outta here y'all!

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