[Meltzer] Update (kinda?) on Tony D'Angelo injury

[Chris]

Tony D'Angelo is expected back "sooner than you would think" after suffering an injury on NXT.

D'Angelo was hurt during a match against Wes Lee that was taped on Wednesday, September 14. The match aired on Tuesday's show. Lee gave D'Angelo a drop toehold into the turnbuckle and D'Angelo began clutching his knee after. The match was stopped and Lee was awarded the victory.

Our own Dave Meltzer gave an update on D'Angelo's condition on Wrestling Observer Radio.

"Earlier in the match, the way he was moving, he was moving very slow," Meltzer said. "So, I think that there may have been something leading to this. It wasn't like it just came out of nowhere. It wasn't like he wasn't hurt and then, all of a sudden, he got hurt on a drop toehold. I think that he was trying to gut through something and then that very simple, not very dangerous looking thing at all, just was like the straw that broke the camel's back, maybe."

"From what I understand, it's not that bad in the sense that, I don't think it's major surgery or anything because I've heard he'll be back sooner than you would think, but he is hurt."

Update on Tony D'Angelo after WWE NXT injury

D'Angelo was hurt while facing Wes Lee on a show taped last week.

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[Deezy]

So you not going to really tell us anything.....

 

[Chris]

No major surgery is the only real news here which is great but he doesn't sound sure at all so I'm not even ruling that out. Hopefully this is accurate tho

 

[Cwalker]

Yeah there’s not much here outside of surgery isn’t needed. Best to keep it vague if you don’t know. This way you avoid looking stupid.

Hopefully he recovers quickly

 

[Dale]

Tony D’Angelo is expected to be out of the ring for up to two months.

As noted, Tuesday’s WWE NXT show saw D’Angelo suffer an injury while facing Wes Lee in a qualifier for the NXT North American Title Ladder Match at Halloween Havoc. The match was taped back on September 14. After several minutes of back & forth action, D’Angelo charged at Lee but Lee side-stepped, then sent him face-first into the turnbuckles with a drop toe hold. D’Angelo was slow to recover and the referee quickly made his way over to check on him. Lee looked on and D’Angelo was unable to stand back up on his own two feet. The referee then called the match and named Lee the winner via referee stoppage. The replay indicated that D’Angelo suffered some sort of leg or knee injury. He was checked out by ringside doctors, and then helped to the back by two people. It was reported earlier this week that the injury was not believed to be that bad, and that D’Angelo would likely be back in the ring “sooner than you would think.”

In an update, a new report from the Wrestling Observer Newsletter notes that D’Angelo is expected to be out of action for 6-8 weeks, but that timeline is more than one week old at this point.

It was noted that D’Angelo did not need surgery.

D’Angelo still has not publicly commented on the injury, and WWE has not issued an official update as of this writing.​