11 WWE Wrestlers Who Are Currently Injured

The WWE style of wrestling is often considered a safe style of wrestling. Now, injuries do happen, and sometimes very frequently, but for the most part, wrestlers are safe, as in, there are protocols in place to protect wrestlers and give them the best kind of care possible in case they are injured. WWE’s roster has depth, and because of this, it’s sometimes hard to remember how many wrestlers are injured at a given moment.

Unlike with AEW right now, these wrestlers’ absence isn’t too obvious – mainly because they weren’t part of any crucial storylines when they got injured. Nevertheless, fans are eagerly waiting for these wrestlers to return to the ring as soon as they can.

Last match details mentioned in the article were sourced from Profightdb.

11 Braun Strowman Hasn’t Wrestled Since May

Strowman Last Appeared In August

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Ricochet And Won Against Chad Gable & Otis	Neck Injury	Unknown

Former WWE Universal Champion Braun Strowman returned to WWE last year. He aligned himself with Ricochet and formed a tag team with him. He last wrestled on the May 1 edition of Raw, where he teamed up with Ricochet to face Chad Gable and Otis. Strowman last appeared in WWE in August to pay tribute to Bray Wyatt. He underwent a neck fusion surgery in June.

10 Sonya Deville Won't Be Back Until 2024

Deville Won The Women's Tag Team Titles In 2023

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Chelsea Green To Lose Against Bianca Belair & Charlotte Flair	ACL Tear	July 2024

Sonya Deville suffered a torn ACL injury in July while wrestling Bianca Belair and Charlotte Flair. She teamed up with Chelsea Green during the bout. In October, Sean Ross Sapp stated that Deville could still be on the sidelines until July next year. Before the injury, Deville was working tag matches with Chelsea Green. After Sonya got injured, Green started teaming up with Piper Niven.

9 Rey Mysterio Recently Got A Knee Surgery

Santos Escobar Attacked Him On SmackDown

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Lost The US Championship To Logan Paul	Torn Meniscus	Royal Rumble 2024

Rey Mysterio recently dropped the United States Championship to Logan Paul in Saudi Arabia. Shortly after this, he was written off television due to an attack from Santos Escobar. Mysterio needed knee surgery due to a torn meniscus.

Luckily, it’s nothing serious, and The Master of 619 will be back in a few weeks, most likely to defeat Escobar and end their rivalry.

8 Sheamus Got A Bad Shoulder

His Contract Is Up In 2024

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Lost To Edge	Shoulder Injury	November 2023

Sheamus hasn’t been seen in WWE after his loss to Edge on SmackDown three months ago. Reportedly, his shoulder was messed up, and while a return timeframe wasn’t given, a recent report suggests he could be returning to SmackDown in a matter of days.

7 Big E Suffered A Broken Neck

Wrestled Ridge Holland & Sheamus In 2022

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Kofi Kingston And Lost To Ridge Holland & Sheamus	Broken Neck	Unknown

Fans were very sad when Big E broke his neck last year; he hasn’t been seen in the ring ever since. Nobody really knows if Big E will even return to a wrestling ring again, and his doctors are against it. But Big E will do what Big E wants, and if he gets medically cleared by WWE doctors, then a return is possible. But until then, fans can only hope to see the former WWE Champion again.

6 Randy Orton's Back Injury Turned Out To Be More Serious Than Expected

Orton Was Taken Out By The Bloodline On SmackDown

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Riddle To Lose The Raw Tag Team Championship To The Usos	Back Injury	November 2023

It’s been 18 months since fans last saw “The Viper” Randy Orton in WWE. This has been the longest he’s gone from WWE due to an injury.

Orton underwent back fusion surgery, which turned out to be more serious than first thought. There’s a rumor that he could return before Survivor Series, which is set to take place on November 26.

Editor's note: Randy Orton has been confirmed to return at WWE Survivor Series! Cody Rhodes announced him as the fifth member of his War Games team against The Judgment Day.

5 Nikkita Lyons Is Recovering From A Knee Injury

Back At The WWE Performance Center

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Defeated Jakara Jackson	ACL & Meniscus Tear	February 2024

Nikkita Lyons was one of the popular stars in NXT. Fans haven't seen her since January when she suffered a torn ACL and meniscus and underwent surgery on her right knee. Her estimated return timeframe was around a year, which means Lyons could be back in February 2024. Recently, she started training at the Performance Center again but hasn't yet been cleared to wrestle again.

4 R-Truth Got Two Surgeries Because Of A Quad Tear

Was Last Seen On NXT

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Lost To Grayson Waller	Quad Tear	Anytime

R-Truth recently indicated that he’s coming back to WWE, and while he didn’t give an exact date, fans can assume it’ll happen pretty soon. He’s been on the shelves for over a year now, with his last match taking place against Grayson Waller, where he tore his quad. He required another surgery because he caught an infection.

3 Erik Revealed He Got A Neck Fusion Surgery

Won't Return Anytime Soon

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Ivar To Defeat Cedric Alexander & Shelton Benjamin	Bad Neck	Unknown

One half of The Viking Raiders, Erik, hasn’t appeared in WWE in quite some time. He last wrestled in September, and initially, it wasn’t known what kind of injury Erik was dealing with. The wrestler himself revealed that he recently had a neck fusion surgery done, and that means he won’t be stepping inside the ring for the next few months. Some reports said he’d be out for half a year, but there’s currently “no timetable to return” for the former Raw Tag Team Champion.

2 Liv Morgan Hurt Her Shoulder

Was Out With The Same Injury Before

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Raquel Rodriguez And Lost The Women's Tag Team Championship To Chelsea Green & Sonya Deville	Shoulder Injury	Unknown

Liv Morgan injured her shoulder on the May 12 edition of SmackDown. She teamed up with Raquel Rodriguez to defeat Damage CTRL. Morgan suffered a torn shoulder at that time, and after returning to the ring the next month, she injured her shoulder again. Currently, it’s unknown when Morgan will return to the ring again.

1 Dakota Kai Suffered An ACL Tear

Tried To Protect Liv Morgan And Got Injured

Last Match	Kind Of Injury	Expected Return Date
Teamed Up With Bayley To Defeat Liv Morgan & Raquel Rodriguez For The WWE Women's Tag Team Championship	ACL Tear	Unknown

Dakota Kai got injured in the same match where Liv Morgan hurt her shoulder the first time. Kai tore her ACL during the match, which required surgery to fix. She’s since made appearances in WWE but in a non-wrestling capacity. Kai got injured when she jumped off the top turnbuckle onto Morgan with her knees but couldn’t land properly and hurt her knee.

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