Zack Ryder was able to win the battle royal on Smackdown Live this week. By doing so, he earned himself and his tag team partner Mojo Rawley a chance at the Smackdown tag team titles. It appeared that Ryder was in a lot of pain after the match.
Fans in attendance saw the referee throw up the ‘X’ symbol to indicate a serious injury. Ryder was helped to the back by WWE officials.
It was confirmed by WWE.com that Ryder suffered a knee injury. Here is the statement from WWE’s Dr. Chris Robinson from WWE.com:
“We think he injured his kneecap or his patella. We think it popped out and then popped back in, so we’re just going to do an MRI to make sure that there is not cartilage damage or some tendon tearing, stuff like that. Hopefully there’s not and it’ll be a shorter rehab period. If there is, there’s a different road we might have to go down that may take longer to get him to recover”
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Ryder also took to twitter to comment on the injury:
Bittersweet night. Won a battle royal on #SDLive for the #HypeBros to become No. 1 contenders…Injured my knee in the process. MRI tomorrow
— Zack Ryder (@ZackRyder) December 14, 2016
We will update you when we know more on how bad it is! Bad news for Ryder. Have to feel bad for him!
Get well soon!
bro can’t catch a break.