Christy Hemme debunked the old rumor that AJ Styles ended her pro wrestling career and revealed what really happened.
Former WWE and TNA star Christy Hemme recently appeared on the Velvet Ropes podcast with SoCal Val. There was a long-standing rumor that Hemme suffered a broken neck while taking a move from AJ Styles during a private training session, and that it ended her career. During her recent appearance on the Velvet Ropes podcast with SoCal Val, she debunked that story.
Christy Hemme revealed that she sustained the injury during a match against former TNA Knockouts Champion Awesome Kong.
“I remember I was in a match with Kong. I got thrown into the turnbuckle and going numb from the neck down,” Christy Hemme recalled. “I remember it like, ‘What was that? Oh my gosh.’ And then I came out of it, and then I got thrown again in the turnbuckle and it happened again. It was stuck a little bit longer. And I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I just remember thinking, this is really serious.’”
“And so when I came backstage afterwards, I told Brad Holman, this is our doctor… I said, ‘I’m feeling this thing in my neck or my head or my back,’” Hemme explained. “So immediately it was like, we got to get an MRI.”
The MRI results revealed severe damage to Christy Hemme’s spine
Speaking further, Christy Hemme shared that the MRI result revealed that she had two protrusions in her spine. The diagnosis resulted in her immediate retirement to prevent any further damage.
“And that’s when I went and got my MRI, and I had two protrusions in my spine that were sitting on my spine. You can’t wrestle with that,” Chrisy Hemme stated. “Like that’s the kind of thing where if I had been thrown a little harder, which is not my opponent’s fault by the way, how are you to know if that’s happening inside a body? But if I had been thrown harder, it could have severed my spine and I’d be paralyzed. So I had to stop completely.”
“And so that’s how it happened. I don’t know why we undramatized that story and made it a training story,” Christy Hemme joked. [H/T WrestlingNews.co]
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