WWE News: Sting Talks Injury At ‘Night of Champions’ — Will He Ever Wrestle Again?

This past Sunday at Night of Champions, “The Icon” Sting challenged WWE Champion Seth Rollins for his championship. It was Sting’s first time wrestling for the WWE’s top prize and his first time main eventing a WWe pay-per-view. But a neck injury put a damper on the evening.

The 56-year-old took several stiff bumps during the match, including going through the announce table, and flying off the top rope to the outside. Yet, it was a powerbomb into the the turnbuckles that resulted in Sting’s injury. The early prognosis was that his injury is serious and potentially career ending.

However, in an interview with WWE, Sting discussed the injury, his prognosis and future in the ring. First, “The Stinger” recalled suffering the injury.

“Bottom line, I had tingling, numbness down both arms, all the way to my fingertips. And then, later in the match, I just fell wrong, whatever it was, and this time [the tingling and numbness] went down both arms and into my legs, and I couldn’t feel my legs too well. They just felt like rubber. I don’t know how to describe it. I had to go down on all fours there for a minute, get my composure. I was a little … I was worried. Long term, well, I’m just going to take care of the short term first and see how the long term might play out.”

After the injury occurred, Sting recalls all the medical personnel and the referee asking him if he was okay to continue. But Sting says he thought he could finish.

While he did end up finishing, Sting says that taking the powerbomb’s into the turnbuckles twice was not a good idea.

“The referee, the doctor, they’re all in there talking to me: ‘Are you OK? What’s going on? Can you continue? Are you all right? Tell us what’s happening.’ And the whole time, I’m just thinking, ‘Oh, man, not now,’ I mean, I want this to be good, you know? And if it ends up being the last thing I ever do in the ring, I don’t want to go out like this. God help me.’ I’m trying to just shake it off, you know? ‘C’mon, c’mon.’ I’m stamping my feet or moving my toes, just trying to get a feel back, get my legs back underneath me. It started to kind of clear up a little bit. My fingers were still tingling and all that, but my legs were not at that point. I said, ‘Let me try to continue, let’s just try it.’ So I just stood up and walked away from them, and we continued.”

When Sting finished the match with Rollins, being pinned by the self proclaimed “Face of the WWE,” Sting says that his trip to hospital ended with a ton of worry and potentially bad news.

“I was out in the hospital — out like a light. They had a neck brace on me, and they were pumping me with [medication] to get me out of pain. I had to do a CT scan and an MRI. They ended up talking to my wife, and I have some details from my wife, but I still have [further evaluation ahead]. They mentioned cervical spinal stenosis, but that’s only part of what I heard. I don’t know if there’s anything else. The doctor did tell my wife, ‘He’s going to have to get this dealt with. He’s lucky he walked out of there.'”

At the moment, Sting says that apart from stiffness in his neck, ” I’m a little banged up, but otherwise, I feel good.” That is good news for Sting, his family, the WWE and everyone involved. That should put to bed the rumor that Sting’s injury to severe enough to compromise his quality of life.

Sting also had the highest of praise for Rollins, who he says may be the best opponent of his 30-year career.

“The biggest pleasure. I’m honored. After 30 years and working with some of the best and some of the greatest, [Rollins] is, I’m telling you, he’s got to be the best I’ve ever worked with. I mean, this guy hasit. And I think he’s just scratching the surface on what he will do. I’ve never seen somebody as talented. He’s working two [matches] on Raw, two [matches] on the pa-per-view, he’s involved in every other segment and it’s physical. He’s got guys coming from every angle. There’s a lot on his plate. He’s carrying a lot, and he’s handling it. He’s proven he can do it. I’m just glad I had a chance to work with him. He’s the kind of guy who could be in there with a broomstick and make something very interesting happen, a match that people would love somehow.”

In the end, at his age, every match Sting has could be his last. With 30 years of bumps, bruises, blood, sweat and tears spilled across the world, he’s done pretty much everything possible in wrestling.

But would he consider putting on the face paint one more time?

” Hmmm, in the right scenario … in the right scenario, yeah.”

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