During his appearance on the The Mark Hoke Show!, WWE World Tag Team Champion Austin Theory revealed the injury that kept him sidelined for several months.
Theory told Hoke that in addition to his contract expiring, he was dealing with a hernia. He said that became worse over time. Theory also said he would continue to wrestle and then pop the hernia back in after his matches. However, he ended up having to being rushed to the emergency room before a match on a Main Event TV taping.
“Everything happens for a reason. But, I was actually wrestling with a hernia for a very long time, and as gross as it is, I was having to pop it back in after certain matches and yeah, just stuff people don’t know about. They don’t know when somebody goes to the ring what the damage is but, I was in a good spot, and even when it was hitting a low for me, I was doing everything that I could to just stay and keep the wheels turning on the car, and it reached a point, I had a match on Main Event, and it would not go back in. So that night, I went to the emergency room, and it blew my mind because I was like, ‘wow, I just had my gear on, and I went out there and I wrestled and now I’m in the E.R.’, and now it’s like, well, ‘where does this go from now?’ Because now I’m out of the picture. My contract was actually coming up so, a lot of things were hitting me personally and that’s kind of one of those things, that’s a low point in your life where you get really rocked, and to me, those points are where you really, you either stay down or you pick yourself up and you become a version of yourself that’s always been in you but it takes you to that next level, and it helped me reframe my mindset and everything and coming back, I just knew, this is my value and this is what I need to be doing. So, and as you see, it’s clear vision now.”
Last December, Theory returned to WWE and was revealed as the mystery person who attacked Seth Rollins at Survivor Series, thus aligning with The Vision. Theory and Logan Paul defeated The Usos on the March 30 episode of Raw.
Logan Paul, Austin Theory and iShowSpeed are scheduled to take on The Usos and LA Knight during the first hour of WrestleMania 42 Night Two, which will air free on ESPN.