Little more than six months after returning early from the pectoral tear, Cena was once more shelved. At SummerSlam, he was engaged in a highly-underrated battle of superheroes against fellow babyface Batista, and it was there that Cena suffered a pretty serious neck injury (ostensibly off of a flying legdrop countered into a powerbomb, but not entirely certain). The injury was later worked into their WrestleMania storyline in 2010, after Batista turned heel. As for the injury (a fragmented compression that caused numbness in his right arm), the early prognosis looked bad, with early estimates putting recover time at upwards of a year. Following surgery, Cena's timetable for return improved to two to four months, and he was back in just under three.
Justin has been a wrestling fan since 1989, and has been writing about it since 2009. Since 2014, Justin has been a features writer and interviewer for Fighting Spirit Magazine. Justin also writes for History of Wrestling, and is a contributing author to James Dixon's Titan series.
