8 Most Ridiculous Wrestler Injuries To Occur Outside The Ring
5. Colt Cabana And The Finger Of Doom
In late 2012, shortly after returning from a tour of Australia, Scott ‘Colt Cabana’ Colton was hospitalised for a week with what he called “the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my own life”. Doctors informed him that without immediate surgery, he might lose his right arm. How did the indie wrestling stalwart injure himself? What horrifying in-ring accident could have occurred?
Cabana suffered a slight cut on his finger.
Sound ridiculous? Well, it absolutely is – it’s also entirely true. Colton’s finger became infected, ending up swelling to three times its normal size. In order to avoid the expense of medical treatment, he tried to ‘flush out’ the injury with tweezers and hot water first, before admitting defeat and himself to hospital.
When news of the limb-threatening injury broke, the public was typically both supportive and mocking in their responses, often within the same paragraph. The hashtag #SaveColtsFinger trended on Twitter and Instagram in the USA, with fans posting hilarious pictures online all over the show. The ever-cheerful veteran Cabana was all for it: as far as he was concerned,
“if Colt Cabana is going to go down with an injury, then a freaky hole in the finger seems like an appropriate one.”