AEW wrestler reveals she suffered torn ACL in recent match
Leila Grey tore her ACL on the December 6 episode of AEW Collision.
Grey was wrestling Mercedes Mone on the show and fell to the mat after delivering a running knee in the corner. Shortly after, Mone put Grey in the Statement Maker for the win.
Despite suffering the injury, Grey recently finished first at a WBFF Pro Fitness event, performing in the competition with a knee brace. Grey says she’ll need surgery for the injury that will put her out of action for some time.
Grey wrote:
“FIRST PLACE BABY! 🥇
I just won, went Pro, and become the new WBFF Pro Fitness Diva!!….. with a freakin’ torn ACL!
For those that may not know, I tore my ACL last week in my match with Mercedes. I’ll be going into surgery and will be out of commission for a while. This couldn’t have happened at a worse time. Not only did it affect my championship match, a MAJOR opportunity for me, but it happened one week out from my debut WBFF show that I had invested so much of my life into the past year. People expected me to drop out, but honey,
There’s no quit in me. I’m a boss ass baddie, and I always get the job done. Strapped up, blinged out my knee brace and it was go time! The devil tried to take this away from me but God said nope! THIS IS FOR YOU!! Thank you to all of my amazing supporters. I love you all. This is just the beginning in my fitness career. Many more wins to come! ❤️
Thank you WBFF for allowing me to live out my dreams.”
Bryan Alvarez addressed Grey’s injury on The Bryan & Vinny Show last weekend, saying he believes she actually suffered the torn ACL on a sling blade earlier in the match and not on the running knee in the corner.
Alvarez said:
“I actually think that she hurt her knee on a sling blade because she did a sling blade prior to this and you can see she’s trying to get up and she’s doing it very slowly. And then she sort of half limps into this knee in the corner and then she collapses. She did manage to get one more spot or two in but then Mercedes put her in the Banks Statement and submitted her.”
“The fact of the matter is, for whatever reason, and it’s not just women wrestlers, it’s women athletes, they tear their ACLs all the time and her going down like that did not look good.”
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