“Cena can’t afford to get injured” is what Jim Ross said moments before Cena legitimately
tore his pectoral muscle completely off the bone while executing a hip toss in
his match against Mr Kennedy on RAW in 2007. Cena being the superhuman person that he is,
finished the match and even agreed to the post-match beatdown from Randy Orton.
It was estimated that he would require 6 to 12 months of rehabilitation but Cena would return just
3 months later surprising everyone as the final participant and winner of the 2008 Royal Rumble.
Triple H has had his fair share of injuries throughout his WWE career. His doggedness
and toughness to carry on despite being injured has been shown in two separate occasions.
The first being a career-threatening injury in 2001, in which he tore his left quad
completely off the bone. He continued the match limping on one leg and even let Chris Jericho
apply his Walls of Jericho submission manoeuvre on him. The second instance was in 2018,
where he tore his pectoral muscle in a tag team match at Crown Jewel.
Without hesitation, he battled through the pain and finished the match.
Finn Balor wasn’t going to let a separated shoulder get in the way of him winning his
first (and only) world title in the WWE that being the Universal championship. During his
match with Seth Rollins, Balor took a nasty buckle bomb into the outside barricade dislocating his
shoulder in the process. He popped his shoulder back in and wrestled the remainder of the match
in a winning effort to become the WWE’s first universal champion. Unfortunately for Balor,
he had to relinquish the title the next day after an MRI scan showed that he had torn his labrum.
During a taping of SmackDown in 2002, Hardcore Holly took on the young and upcoming
“Next Biggest Thing” Brock Lesnar. About 5 minutes into the match, Lesnar lifted Holly
up for a powerbomb but ended up dropping him on his head breaking his neck in the process. Holly
superhumanly finished the match with a “broken freakin’ neck.” Even though the injury looked
maliciously done on Lesnar’s part, Holly himself claimed that it was just an accident as Lesnar
apologised to him over 100-times and called him after his surgery to check on how he was doing.
Reports of Cody Rhodes suffering a serious injury before his scheduled main event
match at Hell In A Cell started circulating around. It was once Cody took of his jacket
to reveal his horrific bruising did the reports ring true. The WWE universe were left stunned…
It was later confirmed that Cody had torn his pectoral muscle completely off the bone while
lifting weights in preparation for his match. He showed unbelievable heart and grit to go
through with the match willingly and was rewarded with the “W.” For the love of the game, right?