{"id":35692,"date":"2019-01-18T00:06:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lwosonprowrestling.ms.lastwordonsports.com\/?p=35692"},"modified":"2019-01-18T00:06:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T05:06:49","slug":"dakota-kai-undergoes-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2019\/01\/18\/dakota-kai-undergoes-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"Dakota Kai Undergoes Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NXT superstar Dakota Kai has confirmed via a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DakotaKai_WWE\/status\/1085850042924183553\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social media post<\/a> last night that she suffered a torn ACL during an NXT live event in Green Bay on Dec 7.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the injuring occurring over a month ago, Kai explained that announcing the injury and subsequent surgery was delayed so that she could spend time in New Zealand with her family over the holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/DakotaKai_WWE\/status\/1085850042924183553<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI put off posting this because I wanted to focus on being home for the holidays and to be honest, I dreaded having to even mention this as I didn\u2019t want to let any of you down. That, over everything, was and is the most heartbreaking feeling in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The severity of the injury is currently unclear but it is likely that this will mean Kai misses a significant amount of time as she rehabilitates her knee following the surgery. Normal recovery post ACL surgery is six to nine months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately this will take me out for a bit\u2026 It\u2019s going to be a tough ride, mentally and physically. I know that. The last thing I want is any sympathy\u2026 but hear me when I say this; Within my whole being, I know for sure I will be back stronger than ever. I will hit the ground, running. That\u2019s a promise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NXT superstar Dakota Kai has confirmed via a social media post last night that she suffered a torn ACL during an NXT live event in Green Bay on Dec 7. Despite the injuring occurring over a month ago, Kai explained that announcing the injury and subsequent surgery was delayed so that she could spend time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2893,"featured_media":35713,"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":[2,317,5,3,320],"tags":[2042,4251,116],"class_list":["post-35692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-women","category-nxt","category-wwe-universe","category-wwe-women","tag-dakota-kai","tag-injury","tag-nxt"],"modified_by":"Jamie Greer","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692","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\/2893"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}