Before Bobby Lashley fought Omos at WrestleMania 38 earlier this year, he was in danger of missing the event due to a shoulder injury. Fans may remember that Lashley deliberately landed awkwardly while taking Brock Lesnar’s German Suplexes during their match at the Royal Rumble. This was because Lashley had suffered a 75 percent tear in his rotator cuff and was it suggested by former CEO Vince McMahon that he would need surgery.
During his interview with The Masked Man Show, the current United States Champion discussed having to refuse McMahon’s advice about getting surgery so that he could make it in time for WrestleMania.
“I tore my shoulder two months before WrestleMania, I couldn’t even raise my hand. I kept that quiet. I took like three weeks off and said, ‘I have to make it to WrestleMania.’ I called Vince (McMahon), Vince was like, ‘Ah, let’s take time off, get surgery,’ spend four months off. I was like, ‘I can’t do that. There is no way I’m going to do that.’ I sat at home for a couple of weeks and started going crazy. I was like, ‘I can’t stay at home, I have to go to work.’ I started training, getting ready, rehabbing, and I got back in and made it for WrestleMania. There is no downtime. Every other sport has an offseason, we don’t have an offseason,” he said. “It [the report] circulated. I get pissed off about that a little bit. Stuff that is supposed to be inside here gets leaked out. I don’t know how it got leaked out. I didn’t tell anybody. It was between me and the trainers. The trainers were like, ‘Go get an MRI,’ I got my MRI and the MRI said I had a 75% tear in my rotator cuff, my labrum was torn. I was like, ‘Does that mean I get a day off?’”
Lashley seems to be doing alright now. The Almighty champion recently retained his United States Championship at SummerSlam against Theory.
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