Another update from Owens.
Kevin Owens and Randy Orton were scheduled to go one-on-one at WWE WrestleMania 41. Several weeks before the show, Owens announced on SmackDown that he was dealing with a neck injury and was not medically cleared.
Owens previously stated that he has not undergone surgery and he reiterated that again during an interview with Le10Sport.
Further speaking about the injury, Owens said he had doubts for months that something was wrong. Two days before his announcement on SmackDown, he learned the exact diagnosis. Owens added that he's lucky to not have done more damage via the matches he had at Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber.
“I had my doubts for several months that there was something really wrong. On the other hand, it took several months to diagnose the injury as such. But we found out two days before I made the announcement on SmackDown, that I couldn't be at WrestleMania and that I had to stop wrestling immediately. In fact, I was extremely lucky not to be injured more seriously in the matches that I had at the Royal Rumble and Elimination Chamber because my neck was already in very bad shape, but we didn't know. Because the symptoms I was having weren't compatible with a neck injury. So we were looking for why I had these symptoms, but we weren't looking in the right place because it didn't make sense. No one could have known that it was my neck that was affected by these symptoms. Afterwards, someone... In fact, I was the one who suggested I have my neck examined to see if there was anything wrong. And that's when we found it.”
Owens would go on to state that it would be untruthful for him to say he's 'absolutely' returning to the ring.
“It would be, not arrogant, but wrong to be able to tell you right now that I'm absolutely going to get back in the ring, that I'm going to have more fights. I don't know if that's true”.
As of this writing, Owens' last match was an Unsanctioned bout against Sami Zayn at Elimination Chamber.
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