Regardless what you think of the guy, you have to be happy for John Cena today. The former WWE Champion and top draw is now expected to miss up to two to four months instead of 12-14 months after successful surgery in Pittsburgh today.
On Monday, it was announced that Cena would be out indefinitely as he was suffering neck pain due to his match against Batista at SummerSlam (not sure if that's true or not). There was major concern Cena would need the dreaded fusion surgery that Edge, Steve Austin, and Chris Benoit had, but WWE Medical Program head Dr. Joseph Maroon simply removed a fragment from Cena's spinal cord that was blocking a nerve in a 90-minute operation.
In fact, Cena was walking around and was backstage at Tuesday night's Smackdown tapings in Pittsburgh just hours post-surgery, according to WWE.com.
You can see pictures of the surgery and additional details here. Congratulations to Cena and his family. Again, no matter what you think of him, he's an important figure to the business now and for the next few years.
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michael szego 10 months ago
unfortunate injury,glad for better than anticipated outcome.
BUT ! I hope he comes back as one nasty heel.
the W.W.E. is devoid of talented heels. Cena,has the acting part of the job down pretty good.With good script writing I think he could pull off loath worthy heel,real well.
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Tim Huinker 9 months ago
this guy is my absolute favorite wrestler and I hate to see him out. You know what i think is dumb though is the fact that mike adamly gave cm punk a chance to get back his title because he was unable to defend it at unforgiven but when cena was out with his pectoral surgery, his title was still on the line at no mercy and he didnt get a chance to get it back right away like punk does that the only reason why he doesnt have the title still. When he comes back from surgery and everything because i know he will, there will be a new wwe champion
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