Doctor Analyzes Big E's Smackdown Injury

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2022 has not been a kind year to Big E (real name Ettore Ewen), as the former WWE Champion had what was probably the scariest moment of his career. During his latest match on SmackDown, a botched suplex spot lead to Big E landing square on his head, leading to him having to be stretchered out of the arena and rushed to a local hospital, where he was stabilized and conscious, but informed by doctors that his neck is broken.

This situation comes only a couple of months after Big E's rather anticlimactic loss of the WWE Title to Brock Lesnar at January's Day 1 PPV and being surreptitiously shunted off to SmackDown with nary a word about any sort of rematch for the championship. The injury to his neck, while requiring no surgery, means at least a few months of recovery and him missing out on WrestleMania 38. This also leaves Kofi Kingston, Big E's partner and New Day stablemate, on his own as New Day's third member, 2021 «King of the Ring» winner Xavier Woods, is also out nursing a calf injury he suffered at the end of last year.

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The injury to Big E's neck occurred during a tag match on the March 11 episode of SmackDown emanating from the BJCC Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Alabama, involving him and his partner Kingston versus Sheamus and his «protégé» Ridge Holland. The neck injury came when Holland loaded up Big E for a belly-to-belly suplex, but failed to complete the arc on the throw, causing Big E to land directly on his head and seemingly go limp and unconscious on impact. The match was rushed to a finish which saw Sheamus pin Kingston after a Brogue Kick, immediately after which Big E was loaded onto a stretcher and taken out of the arena. During this time being