When a professional wrestler suffers a serious injury, there is so much more that goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about.
Perhaps the most insulting thing you can say to a professional wrestler is that what they do is 'fake'. Yes, the business may be staged or pre-determined, but there is nothing fake about what's going on between the ropes. The talented men and women of the industry put their bodies, careers, and lives on the line every time they get in the ring. No one knows that better than Ring Of Honor star, TK O'Ryan.
Last year at ROH's 15th-anniversary show, O'Ryan performed a moonsault from the apron to his opponents on the floor at ringside. Unfortunately, The Kingdom member overshot the move and hit his legs on the guardrail. It looks pretty nasty as you can see below, but it must have felt even worse. O'Ryan broke his right leg and had to have four screws in it to fix the damage.
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O'Ryan recently sat down with The Sportster to discuss his brutal injury and the recovery period after it. "My biggest fear was I didn’t want to hit my sternum because for some reason, in my head I thought ‘If I hit my sternum on that guardrail, I’m going to die’, so I had to land on my feet," O'Ryan explained. "I knew my left leg was broken instantly, but I wasn’t sure about the right leg. It was definitely a surreal experience."
Despite how much pain the former ROH Six Man Tag Champion would have been in at the time, the worst was yet to come. O'Ryan described the ordeal that it was just to be able to go to the bathroom during his recovery and that it would take him around 30 minutes. "My leg was up in the air, but if I had to get up to go to the bathroom, I had to lower my leg to the floor to move, but the second I lover my leg all the blood would rush back and It hurt so goddamn bad."
Amazingly, despite the severity of O'Ryan's injury and the excruciating pain he was in, he returned to the ring less than six months after his leg break. Next on the agenda for him and his Kingdom teammates is the start of the ROH War Of The Worlds on Wednesday in Lowell Massachusetts. Their leader Matt Taven will take on Dalton Castle for the ROH Championship while O'Ryan and Vinny Marseglia will take on Coast 2 Coast in tag team action. Keep up with everything O'Ryan and The Kingdom are up to by following him on Twitter @WildHorseTKO.
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