{"id":15049,"date":"2018-03-04T17:31:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=15049"},"modified":"2018-03-04T17:33:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-04T22:33:15","slug":"rey-mysterio-tears-bicep-indy-show-njpw-match-jeopardy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/03\/04\/rey-mysterio-tears-bicep-indy-show-njpw-match-jeopardy\/","title":{"rendered":"Rey Mysterio Tears Bicep At Indie Show, NJPW Match in Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <strong>Northeast Wrestling<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>WrestleFest XXII<\/strong> on Friday night, <strong>Rey Mysterio<\/strong> apparently suffered an arm injury in the closing moments of the main event, which saw Mysterio and tag team partner <strong>Flip Gordon<\/strong> defeat the team of<strong> Joey Mercury<\/strong> and <strong>Caleb Konley<\/strong>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwinsider.com\/article\/115867\/possible-rey-mysterio-injury-clouds-immediate-future.html?p=1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">According to PWInsider<\/a>, &#8220;the injury has not been confirmed as Mysterio was going to have it examined upon his return home to California.\u00a0 Mysterio&#8217;s arm was a little swollen after the bout, but he was not holding the arm backstage after in a way that was obvious there was a major injury.\u00a0 We are told Mysterio pretty much rushed to leave the building after the match.&#8221; In a posted video on Twitter of the match finish, Mysterio can be seen favoring his arm in several instances.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reymysterio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@reymysterio<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theflipgordon?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@TheFlipGordon<\/a> get the victory over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebKonley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@calebkonley<\/a> and @WWEMercury at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newwrestling1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@newwrestling1<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WrestlefestXXII?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#WrestlefestXXII<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Flip19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Flip19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UbY8ulC4Pq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/UbY8ulC4Pq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nico Giano (@giano_nico) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/giano_nico\/status\/970072785652502528?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 3, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Dave Meltzer<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Wrestling Observer Radio<\/strong> this morning, he mentioned that wrestler&#8217;s have often forgone surgery to repair injuries such as this and wrestled through the injury, but if he was to re-sign with the WWE, they usually insist on these type of surgeries. If the injury does require surgery after his consult, it could put Mysterio out of action for up to six months, which would effectively pull him not only from <a href=\"http:\/\/lastwordonprowrestling.com\/2018\/02\/10\/huge-rematch-added-njpw-strong-style-evolved\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his upcoming NJPW match against <strong>Jushin &#8216;Thunder&#8217; Liger<\/strong><\/a> at <em><strong>Strong Style Evolved<\/strong><\/em> in Long Beach, California at the end of this month, but scrap any plans reportedly rumoured for a possible WrestleMania comeback.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15052\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15052\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15052\" src=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/0325_single.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/0325_single.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2018\/03\/0325_single-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: NJPW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rey Mysterio was reportedly slated to meet with WWE&#8217;s <strong>Triple H<\/strong> in Stamford, Connecticut on Friday during the day prior to competing for Northeast Wrestling, but Triple H had to cancel last minute to attend a business meeting in the Middle East. We&#8217;ll keep you updated on any further announcements concerning the status of Mysterio&#8217;s injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Northeast Wrestling&#8216;s WrestleFest XXII on Friday night, Rey Mysterio apparently suffered an arm injury in the closing moments of the main event, which saw Mysterio and tag team partner Flip Gordon defeat the team of Joey Mercury and Caleb Konley. According to PWInsider, &#8220;the injury has not been confirmed as Mysterio was going to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":15053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[188,886,2027,396],"class_list":["post-15049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-njpw","tag-rey-mysterio","tag-strong-style-evolved","tag-wrestlemania"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}