5 WWE Superstars who were nearly paralysed in the ring

#2 Tyson Kidd

Tyson Kidd has suffered one of the most devastating injuries in the history of sports entertainment in 2015 when he faced Samoa Joe Raw in a non-televised match.

During the bout, Joe hit Tyson with a muscle buster but things didn’t go as planned. The move injured Joe’s opponent badly. To this date, he hasn’t returned to the WWE because this neck injury ended his career right away.

Everyone was shocked hearing this news, not because Tyson’s career ended prematurely but because of how lucky he was. Speaking to SLAM! Wrestling, he recalled the moment when Natalya told her that this move could have paralyzed him for the rest of his life.

"She said, 'You have a very, very similar injury to Christopher Reeve, and the truth is your C2 is what controls your breathing. When it hit your spinal cord, you should have suffocated to death right there. She said five percent of people survive this injury and of the five who do, 99% are paralyzed."