Steph De Lander Clears Up Misconceptions Surrounding Her Neck Injury, Hopes TNA Provides Better Support To Injured Wrestlers In The Future
Steph De Lander didn’t break her neck.
Speaking with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful for a new interview, Lander cleared up the common misconceptionk surrounding her injury, even saying that it was the most basic neck injury that you can get.
“I think the thing I want people to know is, first and foremost, I didn’t break my neck. I had a bulging disc of my C5, C6, which is like the most common level. I had a one level spinal fusion, which is again, a very routine surgery that so many wrestlers have had and returned from. My surgeon operated on Tommaso Ciampa, Braun Strowman, [Maurice], like a lot of names that then went on and continued wrestling. So I just want to set that record straight of this situation makes it seem like I’ve had this like career ending, career threatening injury. Reality, I’ve actually had the most basic neck injury you could have. So I just wanted to make sure that was clear.”
Continuing on, Lander noted that she wants TNA to provide better support to the next wrestler that gets injured.
“Another reason why I wanted to come out and be open about this situation is I wanted to bring up the conversation around the injury protocol and hopefully for the next person that has a serious injury while they work for TNA, I hope that there’s better support in place so they don’t have to go through the same stuff that I did.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Steph De Lander talked about her current goals. Check out her full comments by clicking here.
Fans can check out Fightful‘s full interview with Steph De Lander in the video linked at the top of this article. After that, head over to our YouTube channel to check out more of our recent interviews.
