Xavier Woods reveals nature of surgery that kept him off WWE x AAA Worlds Collide

  • Ian Carey
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Xavier Woods has revealed the nature of the surgery that kept him off WWE x AAA Worlds Collide.

Woods announced in a backstage segment on Friday’s show that he’d had “surgery on his head” and was not medically cleared for the event. He later revealed on social media that he had surgery on Friday morning to remove a lipoma from the back of his head.

Lipomas are fatty lumps that can develop between the skin and muscle. They are typically harmless but can be removed if painful.

Woods wrote:

“For those of you doubting that I had surgery yesterday morning. Here is a before and after pic. Plus the (Lipoma) that was carved out of the back of my head. This was the result of @ScrapDaddyAP instructing @PENTAELZEROM to injure me. Thanks Penta”

Woods initially wrote that he’d had “lymphoma” removed but corrected this in a follow-up post, clarifying that it was a lipoma.

In storyline, Woods blamed the surgery on Penta.

“That mass mercenary Penta continuously hits me with these Mexican Destroyers in an attempt to injure my neck. And guess what? He finally did it,” he said in the segment.

Woods was replaced by Grayson Waller, who teamed with Kofi Kingston in a loss to AAA Tag Team Champions Pagano and Psycho Clown at Worlds Collide.

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Ian Carey
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Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.