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RAW Tag Team Split
Angel Garza is currently recovering from an injury sustained during last month’s Clash Of Champions pay-per-view.
When he does return, he’s not expected to team with Andrade according to a report from PWInsider.
We are told the Andrade and Angel Garza tag team is no more going forward.
Zelina Vega recently left the group, and is now focusing on a singles career in the Women’s division.
In storyline, the duo has not been on the same page, with a teased split over the summer.
It’s unknown if the two will begin a feud when Garza returns from injury, or if one of them will be traded to SmackDown in the up-coming WWE Draft.
Garza recently opened up about his injury in a Youtube video, explaining if he continued the match he could have completely torn his quad, resulting in being out of action for up to six months.
Montez went for a kick and I grabbed the kick. When I lowered it, I went for the knee, but I put in a little too much force into it. I thought when I was going to do it, [Ford] was a little too far from where I was and I didn’t measure myself properly. When I tried to stretch my leg towards him, the other leg that was supporting it couldn’t handle it and was stretched out too much. That’s when I heard a small pop, like a balloon exploding. Everything around that area started to get really hot and when I tried to move the leg, I had that tension close to my groin and it was my quadriceps, almost reaching my hip. That’s what I felt. The referee came to me and asked if I can continue and I said no. I remember giving Andrade the tag and he asked me what’s wrong and I tell him that I can’t go anymore. WWE has a system that’s really effective where they have all the doctors and medical personnel watching the matches on monitors and they quickly go to the ring to see what’s going on. I told them what I was feeling. The medical team sent me away to get it checked. I was asked if I could walk and I said yes, but couldn’t put any force down there,
Following a MRI, Garza was told he would miss up to three weeks of action, and would not require surgery.
They told me to get an MRI and I got the results and thankfully, it wasn’t anything involving the tendons or with my hip as some outlets have reported. It was a quad tear and we already began treatment. I’ve been putting ice on it and bandages for the tear. Right now, I just came from an evaluation and we have been advancing through it incredibly. Thank God I just started to feel good. I still have more evaluations to do, but if all goes well, I think I might be out from a week to maybe 15 days. Thank God that it wasn’t anything long-term like five or six months. They told me if I had continued, I could have completely torn [the quad] and would have been out for a very long time. I don’t think it will even be a month to fully recover… I’m not going to be needing surgery, I’ll probably be only out for a week to three weeks since the injury,
Special thanks to Carlos Toros of Fightful for the transcription.
You can watch his video explaining the injury below.