Brie Bella has gone into detail on her injury at SummerSlam and given a timeline for her return to the ring.
On Night 1 of SummerSlam, the Bella Twins and Paige were defeated by Fatal Influence in a Six-Woman Tag Team bout. During the match, Brie Bella appeared to injure her shoulder, but finished the bout and helped Nikki Bella launch a vicious attack on Paige after the loss.
After the match, Brie Bella was taken to a local hospital for evaluation, and later revealed she had broken her scapula.
On the latest edition of the Nikki & Brie Show, Brie Bella explained what the injury is and how it happened.
“So I broke my scapula, it’s fractured in two or three spots, I think it’s three places. It’s really hard to break your scapula, which is really interesting so it just shows you a freak accident which, before I get into it, I do wanna say that it’s nobody’s fault, my injury, it’s part of the business. In wrestling, we all sign up knowing. I mean, look at Nikki (Bella); three months ago, broke her ankle in the ring. So we all kind of go in there knowing you take that risk that injury can happen. You never know when, never know what kind of move or when it just happens. So, I did break it and I broke it on the stairs when I got the Cannonball.
“It was weird because when it happened, I instantly knew. I think everyone heard me scream in a way you’ve never heard me scream before. But, it’s kind of like what you said when you broke your ankle. You feel the fire, but it was weird because I felt the fire but I felt my body tense up so much and then it just was such sharp pains. I haven’t been in that much pain in a long time.”
Bella said the referee knew something was wrong, but when she asked if she should end the match, Brie refused, instead deciding to push through the pain.
“I started to smarten up to it once we could catch our breaths and I finally was starting to say something. The ref kept checking on me because the doctors speak to her and Triple H, everyone’s speaking to her through her headphone. They were checking up on me and they kept asking me to stay out, but I kept coming back in. Now granted, I missed some big moves and we all had to readjust on the fly.
“I was laying in the hospital that night feeling like I was just the weakest link and made the match look really sloppy for everyone. But, I think what really did it for me was at the end when I took the spinning X-Factor out, because I kept taking moves out and I’m like, in my head, because it was so painful, I was like, ‘What am I doing? But I gotta keep going!’ and the doctors were crying on the ground trying to get to me.”
When Will Brie Bella Be Able To Return To WWE?
While WWE doctors thought her shoulder was dislocated at first, X-rays showed she had broken her scapula and sent her to the hospital for a CT scan. When the orthopedic surgeon came to discuss the results, he explained that it was rare to get surgery for the injury.
“He was like, ‘It’s really hard to break your scapula.’ He was like, ‘No one does surgery on scapulas. If you really want it, there’s one doctor that can do it, but honestly, it’s like breaking your ribs in a way. You just wait till they slowly heal.’
“So that’s what I have to do, and with that, I know I have to get X-rays every two weeks to make sure I am healing. I don’t start PT for another two weeks. So they really want me to be bedridden.”
While surgery is not required, the injury will take some time to heal, and Bella says she will be out for between three and six months.
From there, you guys, I’m out for three to six months. So it all depends how my scapula heals. I like to think us Bellas, our bones heal quick. But, the scapula’s kind of a tricky one.”
