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There are a number of WWE stars who are currently taking time away from WWE for their own personal reasons as the company tries to push through the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Kevin Owens, Roman Reigns, and Sami Zayn are the publicly known names who have opted to remain at home.
While the above stars have the option up to them, others have been forced onto the sidelines recently through injury and are now looking to find their way back.
Many injuries that occur in a WWE ring take several months to heal properly, especially if surgery is involved. Some injuries are faster at healing than others, since many of these stars may not be able to make their return until at least 2021.
#5. Rezar - AOP
Seth Rollins has been looking a lot more lonely in recent weeks since the Authors of Pain are no longer by his side. Instead, Murphy was his only disciple for several weeks until Austin Theory was recruited after falling out with Zelina Vega's stable of stars.
WrestlingInc reported that WWE made the decision to take both Akam and Rezar off WWE TV when Rezar suffered a torn bicep in his match on Monday Night RAW back in March. The injury occurred when he took a crossbody from Montez Ford as AOP teamed with Seth Rollins and Murphy to take on The Street Profits and The Viking Raiders.
The return timetable for the injury at the time was said to be 6-8 months, with 8 months being much more likely since he recently unerwent surgery to repair the damage. This means that if Rezar remains on target with his rehab then he could make his return in November, or around Survivor Series if there is a storyline on Monday Night RAW for him at that time.
#4. Jimmy Uso
Jey Uso was spotted on SmackDown a few weeks ago without his brother Jimmy, which is because Jimmy suffered a knee injury in the Triple Threat Tag Team Championship match back at WWE WrestleMania.
Uso came up short in the match as John Morrison was able to retain the championships for his team, but they later lost them in the rematch a few days later to The New Day.
The Wrestling Observer confirmed that the knee injury took place at WrestleMania and that Jimmy could be looking at 6-9 months out of action from WWE. That means that he is looking at October as the earliest he can make his return.
That being said, if the injury is much worse than first thought, Uso may be looking at next year's Royal Rumble as the pay-per-view to aim for.
As already noted, his brother Jey is still being used as a solo star by WWE in his absence, while his wife Naomi has also been spotted on WWE TV a number of times in recent weeks.
#3. Ember Moon
Ember Moon was sidelined with an Achilles injury back in September 2019 and stated that she didn't want to rush back into action in a WWE ring, as she wanted to ensure that the injury had fully healed first.
Moon revealed that she suffered the injury while chasing the 24/7 Championship on an episode of the Hall of Fame podcast with Booker T.
"So they go through the curtain and they didn’t realize how close I was behind them,” she said. “As I’m coming through, the curtain shuts, I open it, go through. Truth is dropping Carmella and I’m going full speed and I had to hit the brakes. I was just like, ‘whoa,’ BOOM, and I felt a pop.”
The updates from the former NXT Women's Champion over the past few months haven't been too positive since the most recent update whilst appearing on WWE Backstage was that Moon believed that the injury could end her WWE career.
"The more and more I sit back and look at everything I've done and what I would re-do, I think more about my injury currently and realizing that I may have a career-ending injury."
#2. Lars Sullivan
Lars Sullivan has been out of action since the summer of 2019 when he suffered a knee injury in his match against The Lucha House Party. The last update we had on him was that he was expected to make his return this month. However, Sportskeeda's own Tom Colohue recently revealed in a Facebook Live video that he hadn't heard of any return plans for The Freak.
Sullivan has had a number of issues since his promotion to the main roster, one being his anxiety forcing him to be sent home from Raw, where he missed his debut. With the recent pandemic, it's likely that Sullivan is working hard to get back into shape at home and WWE will then assess the injury when it's safe.
Sullivan could be a top star in WWE on either SmackDown or RAW given the chance, but at present, there has been no update following his rehab. It's expected that Sullivan can make his return as soon as physically possible and that he is currently waiting to be cleared by WWE's in-house doctors.
#1. Elias
Elias hasn't had the best run of injuries recently since the former Champion was only recently sidelined with an ankle injury and now he's out of action after suffering a torn pectoral muscle. WWE had to act when it was revealed that Elias wouldn't be able to wrestle his match in the Intercontinental Championship tournament on SmackDown, so they decided to stage an incident involving Sheamus and Jeff Hardy.
Elias was involved in a hit and run, which was a way to write him off WWE TV - while also bringing tension into the feud between Hardy and Sheamus.
It was revealed after the angle aired that Elias was written off WWE TV because of his torn pectoral muscle and at present, according to SEScoops, the timetable for his return is around four months. That being said, there are several websites that believe that the injury could keep Elias out of action through until WrestleMania 37.
Triple H suffered this level of injury back in November 2018 and was recovered in time to face Batista at WrestleMania in April so a five-month timetable seems to be standard.
