Trey Miguel Opens Up About Broken Patella Injury: “I Walked Around On This Thing For Four Days Without Knowing”
Trey Miguel opens up about the injury.
It was at TNA Wrestling’s Rebellion pay-per-view in April 2026 that Trey Miguel and Mustafa Ali battled over the TNA International Championship. As the bout was ongoing, Miguel jumped off the ring apron and performed a Meteora onto Ali, and Miguel’s knees bounced off the ring steps.
He finished the match, but it was later revealed that Miguel suffered a non-displaced fracture of his patella. Miguel guest appeared on the Battleground Podcast and shared that in the moment, he was not aware that his kneecap was broken, but he did notice he was bleeding through his tights.
The initial doctor Miguel saw told him that there were no breaks or tears, so Miguel went to WrestleCon in Las Vegas, Nevada, and unknowingly walked around on a broken kneecap for four days.
“Man, I’ll tell you what, so the moment I was on that ground — after I hit the stairs and I was laying on the floor, I look over to Asa, who’s our ringside doctor, and he’s giving me the thumbs up and the thumbs down, waiting for my reply, and my father was in the crowd, and my dad always gives me this thing, ‘Oh, I hate watching you wrestle. I can’t tell when you’re really hurt…’ I just thought about how bad it would freak him out if I called that match right there, and it was happening during a 10-count and I was just like, let me at least try to get to my feet. So I gave Asa the thumbs up and by the time I got in the ring, I was like, oh man, this hurts, and for a second, there was no adrenaline. That was like an adrenaline dump. I had nothing in me at that point. I’m just trying to stay off my knee and get through these movements as best as possible. But the moment that (Mustafa) Ali went for that 450 and I caught him in the Cutter, the reaction that that got from the crowd pulled me to my feet, and then the adrenaline was back and then I could run and do the powerslide DDT and then send him in for another Meteora, which probably was the worst combination of things I could have possibly done for my knee,” he laughed. “Let’s go slide off my knees and then go to the top rope and break ‘em even more. Oh my God. I had no idea it was broken though. I’ve only broken fingers and in the moment, you can tell because they look broken. I could see that I was bleeding through my tights though. They were green and then they were just turning this weird orange, brown color under my kneepad, and then we got to the back, still didn’t think there was much wrong with it besides, like, maybe I just really bruised it. Got to the E.R. that night. The initial doctor told me that there were no breaks or tears. Went and did WrestleCon so I walked around on this thing for four days without knowing it’s broken and then by the time I got home, I couldn’t walk anymore. So, I knew I had to go get it checked out again and make sure I got an X-ray. I got the X-ray. I kind of forgot where I was for a second. I’m on my phone, doctor walks in, he just goes, ‘You broke it,’ and I look up, I was like, ‘Oh!’ It broke my heart. It really did. I’ve never been away from wrestling for this long, and before getting that answer of how long it would be, I couldn’t stop freaking out. I called (John E.) Bravo and Ingrid (Isley) right away and I’m just like, ‘It’s broken. I don’t know what I’m gonna do.’ They got me into P.T. immediately, and the doctor pretty much told me up front it’ll be about three months before you wrestle again, and again, my heart just broke. But, making it through that match, I’m glad I did it. I think it showed a tremendous amount of heart and the heart that I have for wrestling and TNA specifically, and my dad, he was just like, ‘I don’t know how you did that. I don’t know how you ran and finished that match’ and I don’t know either…”
TNA shared that Miguel could be cleared for in-ring action in six to eight weeks.
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