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Injuries can happen at any time or in any moment for many WWE stars and while some of these minor injuries will only see a star missing for around a week, there are others that keep the Superstars on the sidelines for much longer.
In recent months, several WWE stars have been written off TV through injury. While some of these injuries were very real and will require surgical intervention, others were for storyline purposes and were designed to allow the star in question to have some time away from the company.
While sometimes it's hard to determine which injuries are real and which are scripted, there are many stars at present who are at home on leave rather than looking to rehab injuries and be assessed ahead of a return.
#6. Real WWE injury: Edge
The Rated R Superstar returned to WWE after almost a decade on the sidelines due to injury back at The Royal Rumble. Edge then stepped into a deeply personal feud with Randy Orton which led to a Last Man Standing match at WrestleMania, where Edge was victorious.
The two men then fought it out in a rematch at Backlash that was dubbed 'The Greatest Wrestling Match Ever'. This time around, Randy Orton was able to pick up the win to even the score, but Edge was seriously injured in the process.
It was later revealed that the former 11-time World Champion had suffered torn triceps in the match that would require surgery. It was estimated that the injury would keep Edge out of action in WWE for between four and eight months. This timeline means that at the very least, the Rated R Superstar should be back in action in time for next year's WrestleMania.
#5. Scripted WWE injury: Rey Mysterio
Rey Mysterio stepped into a feud with The Monday Night Messiah Seth Rollins earlier in the year which has since allowed his son Dominik to make his official WWE in-ring debut.
It was known throughout the feud that Mysterio's WWE contract was set to expire and the former World Champion was still negotiating a new one while remaining part of the storyline. The Wrestling Observer noted that the Eye for an Eye match back at Extreme Rules was The Creative team's way of writing Mysterio off TV so that he could sign a new contract and then make his return.
WWE noted following the show that the damage to Mysterio's eye didn't affect his optic nerve which meant that his eyesight could be restored in the future.
Mysterio's eye injury is all part of this lengthy storyline, much like Aleister Black's after he was attacked by Murphy. It's unknown how long Mysterio will be forced to perform with a patch over one of his eyes, but it is clear that the former World Champion wasn't injured at Extreme Rules.
#4. Real WWE injury: Jimmy Uso
Jimmy Uso has been missing from WWE TV for a number of months after the former Tag Team Champion suffered a very real injury at WrestleMania. Uso took on John Morrison and Kofi Kingston at The Biggest Show of the Year but came up short in his quest to win the gold.
Uso also suffered an injury as part of the match that was estimated to keep him sidelined from WWE TV for up to nine months. In his absence, his brother Jey Uso has hardly been used on SmackDown.
Uso recently gave an injury update as part of his appearance Table Talk with WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley.
"I don't like hospitals, I don't like doctors, I don't even take medicine. I don't like any of it, so to sit there and have to go under with the whole gown on having surgery - yeah, I tore the ACL and now we're looking at January. Hopefully we're back and ready to roll."
The former Champion also revealed that he suffered the injury within the first minute of his match at WrestleMania. He recalled that he jumped four feet off the ladder onto the mat and blew his ACL, which annoyed him since he has never been severely injured and it happened as part of the most simple spot.
#3. Scripted WWE injury: Charlotte Flair
Charlotte Flair lost her NXT Women's Championship at TakeOver: In Your House back in June, before being written off WWE TV in an attack at the hands of Nia Jax a few weeks later on RAW.
Flair and Jax brawled in the backstage area and it was later revealed that The Queen had suffered a "potential collarbone fracture" as a result. Following The Queen's departure from WWE, it was revealed by talkSport that the injury was a storyline that was written as a way to allow Flair to take some time away from the company.
Flair had been working on all three brands of WWE for a number of months and wanted to take some time away so that she could schedule her own surgery and have some time with her family.
The report went on to note that Flair was looking at making her return in time for the Royal Rumble, but if there was a storyline that she would slot into as part of Survivor Series then she could make her return a few months earlier initially than planned.
#2. Real WWE injury: Elias
Elias was last seen on WWE TV when he was part of a hit and run outside the Performance Center. Sheamus had attempted to frame Jeff Hardy and convince the former World Champion that he had relapsed ahead of an episode of SmackDown back in June.
As a result of a hit and run, WWE stated that Elias had suffered a torn pectoral muscle as well as broken ribs and these injuries would keep him sidelined from SmackDown for several months.
The Drifter was written off WWE TV because he had suffered a pectoral muscle tear in reality which will reportedly sideline him until around WrestleMania 37 in April next year.
Elias has been hit by a number of injuries throughout his career and was most recently written out of his match in the King of the Ring tournament and replaced by Shane McMahon last year when he suffered an ankle injury. Hopefully, the former 24/7 Championship has a change of luck when he makes his return to the company in 2021.
#1.Scripted WWE injury: Kofi Kingston
Kofi Kingston has been on an interesting run on WWE TV over the past year and was WWE Champion at this time in 2019, but this year he has been written off WWE TV because of an injury that he suffered back at Extreme Rules.
Kingston was put through a table by Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura as part of the pay-per-view where the duo walked out as the new Tag Team Champions. Kingston was assessed by the medical staff the following week on SmackDown.
Kingston then told Big E that he would be out of action for up to six weeks through injury and that his tag team partner would now have the chance to push forward as a singles star.
Despite the injury looking real at Extreme Rules, the former WWE Champion is absolutely fine according to a report by Tom Colohue, who revealed that Kingston asked for some time away.
Kofi is absolutely fine. He has just been given six weeks off to take a quarantine period, go and see his family, take a quarantine period and then come back to work.
At present, it's unknown when Kingston will be making his return to WWE TV.
