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Post by Stephanie McMahon's sidekick! on Feb 4, 2003 6:58:51 GMT -5
February 03, 2003
As reported over the weekend, Triple H did not wrestle at the Madison Square Garden house show due to an injury with his leg. Apparently, HHH has a hematoma on his left quadriceps, and will prevent him from wrestling for three weeks.
Triple H told WWE.com that the injury occurred during the tag-match on RAW against RVD and Kane where he attempted to hit RVD with a high knee, but found RVD's elbow instead.
HHH says it didn't hurt too bad when it happened, but when he got to the hotel room later that night, it had swollen up pretty bad. He said he can't climb stairs, ride a bike, or even bend the left leg all too much.
"The Game" said he doesn't like missing advertised dates, but with an injury like this, it could turn into something major if he wrestled and very possibly end his career like it did to Cam Neely of the Boston Bruins with a similar injury in '96.
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Post by Stephanie McMahon's sidekick! on Feb 5, 2003 14:03:43 GMT -5
Injury bug bites Triple H again (credit: http://www.wwe.com)
A massive buildup of blood in his left quadriceps kept Triple H from wrestling this weekend and will prevent him from doing so for about three weeks.
The Game missed Friday's non-televised event in Minneapolis due to a hematoma -- a solid ball of coagulated blood -- and appeared, but did not compete, at Saturday's event at Madison Square Garden.
There, the frustration on his face was manifest as he explained over and over his latest injury to the Superstars who approached him backstage.
"It seems like every time something heals, I get something else," the World Heavyweight Champion told WWE.com.
The Game was hoping for better luck in 2003 after an injury-plagued 2002: battling with a fractured kneecap at WrestleMania X8, competing with bone chips in his elbow at King of the Ring, the throat injury at Survivor Series, the hematoma in his right leg that he worked with at Armageddon. That latest injury had finally healed in the last week or two.
"I think I actually told (WWE trainer) Chris (Brennan) at (RAW last Monday in Chicago), 'I think that that thing in my leg is finally gone,'" the Game said.
Sadly ironic, it was that day at RAW that he wrestled in a match that resulted in another hematoma -- this one in his surgically repaired left quadriceps. During the tag team main event with Batista against Rob Van Dam and Kane, the Game hit RVD with a high knee, and RVD's elbow collided with Triple H's left thigh.
"It just felt like a Charley horse," Triple H said.
But when he got back to his hotel room, his leg had swelled dramatically, and he called Brennan.
"By the time Chris got there, I couldn't stand," Triple H said.
By Saturday's event at the Garden, the champion could walk around, but he still only had a few degrees of motion.
"I can't climb stairs," he said. "I can't ride a bike. I can't bend it enough."
That became obvious during the show, when he headed out to the ring to explain to the crowd that he couldn't compete. He struggled mightily to get through the ropes and into the ring. Fans may have assumed that he was pretending. He was not.
Because the show was at the Garden -- considered WWE's home away from home -- Kurt Angle, Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas were brought in as substitutes.
The Game would have liked to compete and had been rehabilitating feverishly since last Monday in an attempt to not miss any dates, but there was simply no way he could wrestle last weekend.
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Post by Stephanie McMahon's sidekick! on Feb 5, 2003 14:06:32 GMT -5
(The second part of that interview)
While he does not like missing shows -- especially dates for which he has been advertised -- he also knows that he must take it easy or this relatively minor injury could turn into something major. If the blood in his quad calcifies -- hardens into a bone-like substance -- it would end his career. It's one of the reasons that Boston Bruins great Cam Neely was forced to retire in 1996, Triple H said.
So the Game undergoes rehab twice a day to speed the recovery process -- he hopes to be able to wrestle again in three weeks - and he takes an anti-inflammatory designed to prevent calcifying.
Triple H visited doctors last week and underwent blood tests to try to determine the cause of these hematomas. After all, one developed in his right leg last December after a RAW match against Jeff Hardy. He also had one on his left shoulder after Vince McMahon hit him with a pipe during their match at Armageddon in 1999.
"(Doctors) can't find anything," he said, referring to his blood tests.
They told him that some hockey players -- who, like wrestlers, often suffer traumatic contact with certain muscles -- often develop hematomas, while others never do.
"Unfortunately," Triple H said, "I seem to be susceptible."
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Post by wwf_fan on Feb 7, 2003 15:46:02 GMT -5
AWWWWW poor HHH  |
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