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Ember Moon Is Hoping She Doesn’t Need Another Surgery
Former NXT Women’s Champion Ember Moon tore her Achilles Tendon during a 24/7 Championship segment last year. Back in December she appeared on WWE Backstage where she gave an update on her injury. She said it may be ‘career ending’ and that the recovery process is very long.
Ember Moon recently spoke to ComicBook.com where she gave another update on her injury and recovery.
She was asked about her injury and when/if she has a plan to return to the ring.
“It’s been an up and down hill for me,” Moon said when asked about her injury. “A lot of people don’t know this – they think I just have a very generic Achilles rupture, but I don’t. “What actually happened is that [my Achilles tendon] got split in half and then it also got torn off the bone. So I actually ruptured my Achilles in two places, and the surgeon thinks that I may have been wrestling on it for probably about two months already torn to some extent, and I just didn’t feel the pain because I have kind of a high pain tolerance.”
During her appearance on WWE Backstage, she mentioned that people such as Booker T, Mark Henry and Triple H have been checking up on her.
“Honestly like what has made the biggest difference thus far because everything that they’ve said has been helping so much more than me just doing the normal situation because of that complication,” Moon continued. “So yeah, like there is a light, it is getting better. I just don’t have a timeframe and I don’t know when.”
“I’m sitting here and I’m fighting a second surgery. I’m fighting against the second surgery. That’s how bad it is. When I went on Backstage and I said, ‘I don’t know if I’m ever going to wrestle again,’ I meant what I said and I, I stand by that.”
Moon still wants to return to the ring and her recent injury hasn’t discouraged her.
“It took me almost a decade to get to WWE after four tryouts,” she noted. “2019 was not my year. 2020 is not the world’s year, but dammit, we’re going to get there. I just feel like I worked so hard – no one helped me get anywhere, no one put a foot in the door for me. I don’t have a legacy, I don’t have a last name, but I have me and my work ethic. I have me and my passion and that’s always been enough. It’s going to be tested and I think when I do get back, when I do get cleared, all of this will be just another stepping stone on my path to greatness.”