Kevin Owens was originally scheduled to face Randy Orton at WrestleMania 41 later this month, but unfortunately that match has been canceled. Owens appeared on Friday Night SmackDown this week and he announced that he’s dealing with a serious neck injury that will require surgery.
Prior to SmackDown, Kevin Owens spoke to Robbie Fox of the My Mom’s Basement podcast, and he explained that two things happened during a match in January that jarred his neck and started the issues.
“Yeah, no. So I know for a fact there’s a specific moment because in December I did a full body MRI just on my own for curiosity. Just like to make sure, to see if there’s anything that I should be aware of, and it’s the thing where yeah, it, you could see if there you have issues with your bone structure or whatever, or even organs, anything like that and at the time the report came back that my knees were sh**, but I’ve been well aware of that for a long time, so there’s no concern there, but there’s something about my spine and, mild to moderate stenosis, which for what we do, and I, I showed it to the WWE doctors and yeah, for what you guys do, everyone’s got a level of stenosis.”
“Everyone on Earth walking around has a level of stenosis. Yours is your spine and your neck and everything looks good. Everything looks good for what you’ve been doing. You’re fine. So great. And I felt great, but then in January I had a match. And in the match, two things happened that really jarred my neck and that’s when the issues started. So I knew there was something and then we ended up doing an MRI this week and found out that, yeah it’s serious. Yeah. So I think that match in January is what did it, because I had an MRI a month before that and everything looked fine.”