{"id":30688,"date":"2018-11-12T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=30688"},"modified":"2018-11-12T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T02:32:00","slug":"cody-rhodes-provides-injury-update-needs-a-scope-but-should-be-able-to-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2018\/11\/12\/cody-rhodes-provides-injury-update-needs-a-scope-but-should-be-able-to-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"Cody Rhodes Provides Injury Update: Needs A Scope, But Should Be Able To Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pro wrestling is a physical sport. It features daily grinding, workouts, training and full contact matches &#8211; injuries are bound to happen, either from daily wear and tear or from accidents inside or outside the ring. But so far this year has seen some of the industry&#8217;s top names go down from serious injuries or health issues &#8211; from IWGP Junior Heavyweight Champion <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/07\/14\/hiromu-takahashi-speaks-im-fine-thank-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Hiromu Takahashi<\/strong>&#8216;s broken neck<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/02\/joey-janela-out-for-minimum-one-year-announces-la-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Joey Janela<\/strong>&#8216;s destroyed knee<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/10\/22\/breaking-roman-reigns-leukaemia-returns-relinquishes-universal-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Roman Reigns<\/strong>&#8216; leukemia return<\/a> to <strong>Triple H<\/strong>&#8216;s torn pectoral muscles, a lot of names have gone down. Last week, &#8220;The King of Dong Style&#8221;<strong> Joey Ryan<\/strong> announced <a href=\"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/2018\/11\/09\/joey-ryan-injured-may-have-torn-pectoral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he too may have suffered a torn pec<\/a>. But that wasn&#8217;t the last of them. This past weekend, <strong>Cody Rhodes<\/strong> &#8211; who is touring as part of <strong>Ring of Honor<\/strong>&#8216;s <em><strong>Global Wars<\/strong><\/em> series with <strong>NJPW<\/strong> &#8211; announced he&#8217;d tweaked his knee.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Going from one side of the crowd to the other last night, teasing a t-shirt toss of all things&#8230;heard a loud POP in my knee. Terryfing. <\/p>\n<p>Hoping it was just a lil\u2019 meniscus and Sunday I can still deliver. \ud83e\udd1e<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyRhodes\/status\/1061185910082072576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the issue got worse, and Cody ultimately had to pull out of his Sunday night match in Toronto, Ontario against Trent Beretta.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Sadly folks I will not be able to wrestle tomorrow in Toronto. I will still be at the pre-show meet\/greet to say hello to everybody<\/p>\n<p>ROH &amp; I will find a suitable replacement for the match. I\u2019m extremely sorry. I\u2019ll be able to confirm the extent of the issue after an MRI this week<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyRhodes\/status\/1061370627737694208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Cody Rhodes met with his doctors and it appears it&#8217;s better news than feared. Luckily there was no structural damage in his knee area &#8211; no tears in the MCL, PCL or ACL &#8211; but there is damage to the meniscus and he&#8217;ll need a scope to assess further.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">GOOD news is my doctor is fairly confident that my mcl\/pcl\/acl are structurally sound. <\/p>\n<p>BAD news is the meniscus is fairly damaged, gonna\u2019 require a scope. No dates will be adjusted at the moment, and I\u2019ll definitely still compete in the final battle main event &amp; at WK. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PtyK1wpoiz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/PtyK1wpoiz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CodyRhodes\/status\/1062103587550048256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">November 12, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The good news is, that Cody Rhodes and his doctor appear confident he won&#8217;t miss his upcoming big bouts at <em><strong>ROH Final Battle<\/strong><\/em> on December 14 and at <em><strong>Wrestle Kingdom 13<\/strong><\/em> on January 4, 2019 (although neither matches have been officially announced yet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro wrestling is a physical sport. 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But so far this year has seen some of the industry&#8217;s top names go down from serious injuries or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":30692,"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":[98,852,338,77],"class_list":["post-30688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-north-america","tag-cody-rhodes","tag-joey-janela","tag-joey-ryan","tag-roman-reigns"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688","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=30688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}