8 Wrestlers who suffered major health scares recently

#3. Dean Ambrose/Jon Moxley

Dean Ambrose was a workhorse

Up until the end of 2017, Dean Ambrose had never taken sick leaves nor had he suffered any major injury. He was the iron man of WWE and was the most reliant person on the roster, but with every superstar, their body gives in eventually.

For Ambrose, it was a torn triceps tendon that required fixing and he revealed to The Monitor that an infection nearly cost him his life. And this wasn't just when he had his first surgery. He struggled during his second one in 2018 as well.

It was just one nightmare after another. It was a pretty challenging period of time to go through. I ended up having two different surgeries. I had this MRSA, Staph infection. I nearly died. I was in the hospital for a week plugged up to this antibiotic drip thing, and I was on all these antibiotics for months that make you puke and crap your pants.

He continued, saying:

My arm wasn't healing correctly, and my triceps. It's kind of an indeterminate period where I initially hurt it. ... By the time I finally went and got the first surgery, my triceps was already starting to atrophy and look weird. I wasn't able to flex my triceps for a really long time. And then the first surgery didn't really, something went wrong in the process. Probably due to that infection. It's kind of hard to say when that really even got in my body. ... But for a minute there, it was getting scary. By the time I got that second surgery, it was March, I think. My arm was so shrunken and skeletal that it was weird. I hadn't been able to move it or flex it in so long that I was starting to get scared I wasn't ever going to get it back.

Since then, the only injury he suffered has been an elbow infection that he got while working with NJPW.