Horrifying Injuries That Changed Wrestlers FOREVER
9. Tyson Kidd
In 2023, Tyson Kidd is respected as a positive backstage force in WWE, credited with agenting numerous classics from the recent era of women's wrestling. He's also got a back catalogue of midcard matches from his career that hold up to scrutiny more so than three quarters of the milquetoast matches from that specific era.
That side of his CV sadly came to an end in June 2015, during a dark match that was all too effective in putting over the danger of his opponent and new signing Samoa Joe.
'The Samoan Submission Machine' had debuted on NXT in May at TakeOver: Unstoppable, but was booked to work Kidd on Superstars in front of a larger audience at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas. Disaster very unfortunately struck when a Muscle Buster went awry, forcing Kidd into retirement with a spinal cord injury. The aforementioned success stories of his time since speak on his capacity to turn an enormous negative into a big positive, but at just 35 he was probably just hitting his prime years when everything changed.