Eric Young suffered a torn ACL at Impact’s most recent TV tapings and is expected to be out of action for 6-9 months.
“At the last tapings I tore my ACL,” Young told the Wrestling Perspective Podcast in an interview that was released today. “It’s the first time I’ve ever been injured. I missed my first wrestling show this Friday that I was booked on in 24 years of doing it. So, it’s frustrating, man. I’ve never been injured. I’ve been hurt lots, but I’ve never been injured. I have to have surgery in like a week and a half. And it’s going to be a long, long road. So, we’ll see, man. It’s going to get real interesting for me.”
Young said that he suffered the injury during a match with James Storm, but finished the match then wrestled two more matches at the tapings with a torn ACL.
“My ACL is completely torn, which I didn’t know,” he said. “That happened on Monday during the match with Storm. I finished it like nothing happened. I wrestled a hardcore war eight-man tag the following day, then I wrestled Eddie Edwards on Tuesday in a singles match. It was like 20 minutes… on one leg. And I would put that match against anything that airs anytime, for any wrestling company, anywhere in the world, and I did it on one leg. And I’m very proud of it.”
Young also said that it’s possible that he still remains on TV with the injury. He’s currently the leader of the “Violent By Design” stable with Joe Doering, Cody Deaner and Rhino.
Transcript h/t: The Wrestling Observer