12 Unluckiest WWE Injuries Ever
9. Seth Rollins
It goes without saying that injuries can be profoundly devastating to a professional wrestler, but the misfortune of suffering one whilst carrying the industry's top prize is always particularly galling.
Working a non-televised event in Dublin at the start of the company's annual European winter tour in November 2015, then-WWE Champion Rollins tore the anterior cruciate ligament, medial collateral ligament and medial meniscus in his knee after it buckled under the weight of pressure from a sunset flip powerbomb attempt to Kane.
Fan footage of the gruesome injury went viral, and 'The Architect' immediately had to vacate the WWE Title and begin his recovery.
Covered in the stirring 'WWE 24' piece 'Redesign, Reclaim, Rebuild', Rollins underwent tortuous physical therapy with the hope of making it back in time for WrestleMania 32, but after disappointingly missing that deadline, he pledged to make a spectacular impact upon his return.
Results were mixed in the immediate aftermath, but he required similar resilience to gut out a yet another pre-WrestleMania knock ahead of his match with Triple H. He has since toned down his style somewhat to accommodate the gradual wear and tear.