Very few surprises turned up on the night after WrestleMania on Raw, but the return of Ivar from the Viking Raiders certainly was the lone but pleasant surprise on Raw.
Ivar suffered an injury in early September on Raw but managed to come back to action last Monday night. Ivar opened up about the injury on WWE’s YouTube channel, where he talked about just how serious the injury was.
“I ended up breaking my neck when I dove out of the ring. With the neck, and my injury specifically, because it’s such a traumatic blow to my spinal cord it was hard to get any kind of clearance of idea from the doctor as to when would be the time. It was a range, depending on how I heal. Once you have the fusion surgery in your neck, you have to wait for it to fuse and heal. It was rough and mentally it was rough. As soon as I got the chance to go to the Performance Center and rehab, things got easier mentally. I was able to help with training classes, help the young guys, and in helping them learn, I was learning. Mentally, that helped because I feel like I evolved. I fought really hard to get cleared enough that I could get in the ring early with no physicality, just to work on cardio. That helped accelerate my healing process.”
Also in the video, Erik revealed Ivar was already texting him ideas for new moves two weeks after surgery, and now the two have something else to bond over. In 2014, Erik suffered an injury from a motorcycle accident that was once thought would end his life, and now both of them have recovered from potentially career threatening injuries.
Thanks to Fightful for the quote
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