WWE Says Dean Ambrose Will Be Out for Nine Months

WWE announced that Dean Ambrose will be out for “approximately nine months” following surgery to repair his torn triceps tendon.

It was previously reported that WWE was hoping to have Ambrose back in 2-3 months, so it is possible that WWE could be exaggerating the time frame for some reason like they did with the Braun Strowman injury a few months ago where they said he could be out for six months, but he was back in a few weeks. That situation made more sense since Strowman is played up as a “monster,” though, so the nine month time frame could certainly be legit and for now there’s no indication that it isn’t.

INJURY UPDATE: @TheDeanAmbrose's injury will keep him out of action for approximately nine months. https://t.co/q7mmvhgJIp

— WWE (@WWE) December 26, 2017

From WWE.com:

Dean Ambrose injury will keep him out approximately nine months

Following Dean Ambrose’s successful surgery last Tuesday night to repair a high-grade triceps tendon injury, Michael Cole took a moment during the Dec. 25 episode of Raw to confirm that The Lunatic Fringe will be out of action for approximately nine months.

Ambrose’s successful procedure was performed by Dr. Jeffrey Dugas in Birmingham, Ala., and took around 40 minutes.

“He tore some of the distal triceps tendon where it attaches to the forearm bone, called the olecranon,” Dr. Dugas told WWE.com. “He basically tore about 50 percent of the triceps tendon away from the bone. So yesterday we repaired that back down to the bone where it tore off of. The surgery was very straightforward; we removed all of the extra bursal tissue — all of that extra swollen stuff around his elbow.”

Dugas added that Ambrose has begun physical therapy, starting with light range-of-motion exercises.