Jack Cartwheel updates injury status, return timeline
AAA wrestler Jack Cartwheel hasn’t wrestled since WrestleMania week, when he suffered a gruesome elbow injury. But he’s now saying he won’t need surgery, and should be back sooner than initially expected.
Cartwheel talked about his injury in a conversation with Pep S. Caro of Pep Shop Collectibles.
“It’s been better than I thought it would be,” Cartwheel said. “If I showed you the X-rays—which at some point I’ll release the X-rays—my forearm was just not where it’s supposed to be. It should be here, but my forearm was all the way over here. The X-rays look insane, so you’d think that I’d be out for six months, eight months, something like that.”
Cartwheel then shared some good news about his condition.
“I’ve been very lucky to not need surgery on the dislocated elbow,” he said. “I have some tendons torn, I have some ligaments torn, but the great news is that I don’t need surgery.”
As for his return to action, while that’s still not certain, it should be just a few months.
“I don’t know exactly when I’m coming back yet,” Cartwheel said, “but I know I’m not going to be out for six months. I know it’s going to be less than that.”
Cartwheel suffered the injury midway through a match against Galeno Del Mal at GCW Gringo Loco’s The Wrld On Lucha at the Horseshoe in Las Vegas on April 17. The match was stopped, and Galeno was declared the winner by referee’s decision.
