Former WWE Champion Big E is still not ruling out a potential return to the ring dependent on his next round of neck scans.
In an interview with Sports Talk Philly, the 38-year-old said that he will get another round of scans in the next three-to-six months and “if they look great and the doctors say it’s healthy for me to go back, then that’s something where we’ll sit down and talk about it.”
The popular star and member of the New Day was severely injured in a March 2022 tag team match on a belly-to-belly suplex outside the ring by Ridge Holland. After landing on his head, he broke his C1 and C6 vertebrae and while he has healed for day-to-day life, his C1 vertebrae still hadn’t turned into new bone as of two months ago.
“…I try not to spend too much time worrying about things I can’t control. It’s nice to know that if I get the opportunity to get back in the ring, and I can do it healthily, then let’s do that. Let’s attack it fully. But if not, I know exactly what I want to do, and I’m excited about that path, too,” he said, also discussing that he got stem cell treatment around three months ago in Cancun.
If he can’t ever return to the ring, he has made peace with that, saying he’s got a lot of opportunities doing WWE Countdown shows and other soon-to-be announced WWE broadcasting opportunities.
“There’s a myriad of things open to me, and so many things I’m excited about. That’s really the lovely thing that while I’m not in the ring right now, I have so many things I’m excited about and projects I’m working on. Every day, I wake up with that excitement and that passion. If this is the end of my career in the ring, I know exactly what I want to do and all of those things are in motion right now,” he said.
