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WWE Superstars are at the risk of getting injured at any point in the match. When a star is injured, more often than not they will decide that they want to continue the match and that can sometimes make the injury much worse. In the past, there have been several WWE stars who have been unable to continue the match after an injury, even though it could be argued that they could have continued.
There seems to be a feeling backstage in WWE that because these wrestlers are athletes, they can "shake off" certain injuries but more often than not, the decision is down to the referee.
#5 Continued: Jimmy Uso
Jimmy Uso is a former Tag Team Champion and has performed alongside his brother Jey for the past decade on WWE TV. At WrestleMania back in April, Jimmy was part of a triple threat ladder match for the Tag Team Championships which also included John Morrison and Kofi Kingston.
Uso revealed following the match that he had suffered a torn ACL that would keep him out of action for around 6-9 months. In an interview with WWE Hall of Famer D-Von Dudley on Table Talk a few weeks ago, Uso recalled that the injury occurred in the opening moments of the match but the former Champion was able to continue.
"It was the first minute at WrestleMania, I tore my ACL within the first minute. I had no idea! All I knew was I went down and I jumped off the ladder from 4 feet. I landed on the mat, and that's how I blew my ACL. Out of all the crazy things we have done in the past decade in WWE, I get hurt from falling 4 feet off a ladder."
In his absence, Jimmy's brother Jey has won a shot at the WWE Championship in three weeks' time at Clash of Champions.
#4 Gave up: Big Cass
Big Cass came through the ranks in NXT alongside Enzo Amore and the duo pushed towards the WWE Tag Team Championships for most of their career, before Cass turned on his long-time friend.
Cass was the man behind the attack on Amore backstage and this then led to a hotly anticipated feud between the two men on WWE TV. The feud came to a head when Cass and Enzo collided in a Brooklyn Street Fight on an episode of RAW back in 2017.
The match was only a few minutes in when Cass looked to deliver the Empire Elbow but his knee gave out. The seven-foot star tried to stand back up but couldn't and then rolled out to the apron where he began hitting the floor and started throwing his arms around because he was in pain.
Cass didn't continue the match, something that Enzo Amore later commented on. It was revealed that much like fellow WWE star Jimmy Uso, Cass had torn his ACL in the match and would be sidelined for around eight months.
#3 Continued: Triple H
Triple H has overcome a number of injuries during his time in a WWE ring, but when he teamed with Shawn Michaels, in his first WWE match in eight years at Crown Jewel back in 2018, The Game tore his pectoral muscle in the middle of the match and still managed to continue.
The two men took on The Undertaker and Kane in a match that was hyped as one of the greatest but has since garnered only negative reactions from fans, Superstars, and even the men who were part of the match. At one point in the match, Triple H came over the top rope and tore the muscle, before Kane put him through the announce table which allowed him to remain on the outside.
The Game was later able to climb back into the ring and deliver the Pedigree to Kane to pick up the win for his team, despite the injury. The former 14-time World Champion later underwent surgery but was still able to make his return less than four months later to wrestle Batista at WWE's biggest show of the year, WrestleMania.
#2 Gave up: Sin Cara
Sin Cara was one of the company's most exciting stars for a number of years, but he was a star that many fans believed was botch prone. In his later years in WWE, Sin Cara also became injury prone and managed to get on the wrong side of Alberto Del Rio when he refused to continue their match with a dislocated finger.
Del Rio had kicked the steel steps into his hand on the outside and this caused the injury, but The Mexican star then looked to call off the match because of the injury.
Del Rio was furious and threw the masked star into the ring and kicked him before the official called the match off. Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer later revealed that Sin Cara gained a lot of heat from WWE stars backstage because of this.
"(Del Rio) was really mad. There was super, super heat. I cannot express how much heat there is on Sin Cara because of the feeling that (with) dislocated fingers you don't quit... Just so much heat backstage because of that being the injury and for the way he just quit on the match, which he did."
Many WWE stars have dislocated their fingers in the past and continued the match, which is why some were angry with Sin Cara.
#1 Continued: Finn Balor
Perhaps the most famous time that a WWE star continued the match whilst injured was at SummerSlam in 2016 when Finn Balor went on to win the Universal Championship in his bout with Seth Rollins.
The two men were fighting it out to be crowned the first Universal Champion, but when Rollins threw Balor into the barricade mid-way through the match, it caused a serious shoulder injury.
Balor could be seen putting his shoulder back into its socket after the move, but still continued the match and was crowned Universal Champion. He was the first Superstar to win the title since it had only been introduced to the Raw roster following the brand split a few weeks earlier.
The following night on RAW, The Demon King was forced to relinquish his first main roster WWE Championship when it was revealed that the injury was much worse than first feared.
Interestingly, Balor was then out of action until the following year when he returned the night after WrestleMania to partner none other than his former WWE rival, Seth Rollins.
