TNA's newest knockout... Is already injured

[Soulpower]

As reported earlier today, Mickie Knuckles, known to TNA fans as Moose suffered a broken right leg while working for IWA:Mid-South this past weekend. She is scheduled for surgery today to repair her broken femur. The good news is that the fracture was not a compound one, so the healing process should be slightly easier on her.

For some reason, I'm not surprised.

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

My article is bigger than yours.

One TNA Knockout is going to be out of action for a very long time.

According to various eyewitness accounts online, new TNA Knockout Mickie "Moose" Knuckles reportedly broke her leg after diving off a high platform at the IWA Mid-South presents Summertime Black & Blues indy show in Joliet, Illinois earlier tonight.

A wrestler dove off a high platform earlier in the show, said to be former WWE developmental Robert Anthony under his masked "Egotistico Fantastico" gimmick. Knuckles didn't want to do the same exact spot, so she went on an even higher platform near the announcing area. According to Ed Chuman, who is the promoter for NWA Midwest Wrestling, Knuckles took a jump from a high platform and came down with all of her weight on one leg. Sara Del Ray, her opponent for the match, tried to catch her, but was unable to latch on to the free-falling 185-pound women's wrestler. Chuman compared the injury to Sid Vicious' severe leg fracture at a WCW event in January 2001, but in her case, the leg snap was above the knee.

Here is what Chuman posted on the ChicagoProWrestling.com message board regarding Knuckles' incident earlier tonight:

I just got a call from some of the boys at Ian's show tonight. They said Mickie broke her leg doing a dive. From what I understand she landed on one leg with all her weight & it snapped like Sid's did back in WCW, but above the knee. This is a very sad thing too have happen to her especially with her work in TNA at present. I'll I can say is how sorry I am to hear this, and wish her the best in her recovery.

Modification:

It seems that someone else did a dive, and Mickie didn't want to do the same dive, and decided to dive off some balcony, or higher position. Sara tried to catch her, but as stated before she came down on 1 leg, and that was that. I've now heard from Joey, Jason Dukes, Sara through Kong who already heard all the way in Tampa.

Another message board poster said that Knuckles ended up breaking her femur, which is the thigh bone.

The IWA-MS show was immediately canceled and an ambulance was called to tend to Knuckles.

One person in attendance said on the message board, "I was there and it was really bad to watch. As soon as it happened you just saw everyone get up and they waved Ian over right away and he made them cut the cameras too."

Knuckles was expected to sign a contract with TNA, but it is unknown if she actually signed the deal as there is a lot hearsay going around regarding the finality of the matter. She was originally brought into the company a few weeks ago as a bodyguard type for "The Beautiful People" after former WWE Women's Champion Jazz declined the role due to pregnancy. Knuckles was in the midst of strong push in TNA, having won matches on the past two editions of Impact.

IWA Mid South stand out Mickie Knuckles (Moose) has received her TNA contract and will be a mainstay with the company. As noted in the post right below this one, Mickie suffered a nasty injury at an indy show over the weekend.

Well damn, that sucks.

 

[Chuck Taylor's Grenade]

From the video I've seen it looked like she tried to do a thesz press to Sara who was seated and she was either too far away or Mickie didn't get enough distance on the jump to complete it properly.

 

[Christian]

holy shit how do you break your femur

 

[Soulpower]

Its not the full vid.. But let's just say this. LEGS AREN"T SUPPOSED TO BEND THAT WAY!

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Also, its been almost a day since this happened. TIME FOR A LAME JOKE!

Joke:What did Moose say when she broke her leg?

OH SNAP!

 

[chessarmy]

^ fuck! That looked nasty! I don't think your leg is supposed to bend that way! Damn...

I would think that when you sign a contract to a major wrestling promotion like TNA, you would want to tone down what you do in the indies so that you don't get injured like this. Oh well, lets hope she heals up fast

 

[Kaedon]

holy shit how do you break your femur

You do a pointless hardcore spot

 

[Soulpower]

You do a pointless hardcore spot

WE HAVE A WINNER!!! Props to Ian Rotten (By props, I mean FUCK YOU, YOU IDIOT!!!) for letting Mickie go to through with an idiotic spot, despite knowing that she finally got her big break (On her leg >_>) by signing with TNA.

 

[cmfunk]

^^ lol every new tna talent that seems to be somewhat good ends up geting hurt or fired to soon.....and wasnt this she pulling good ratings in too?

 

[xtremebadass]

Well she has alot of weight to support, I am surprised Awesome Kong hasn't been injured yet.

 

[Chuck Taylor's Grenade]

Well when was the last time you saw Kong do a thesz press from a balcony?

 

[Tsaalyo Phoenix]

Mickie "Moose" Knuckles' surgery to repair a broken femur in her right leg yesterday was a complete success. She should be leaving the hospital on crutches in a few days. The surgery took longer than expected due to the muscle mass in Mickie's leg.

She will likely need six months off before she can return to the ring.

TNA intends to sign Knuckles to a contract once she is able to wrestle.

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IWA-MS promoter Ian Rotten's wife Patti released the following statement regarding the condition of Mickie "Moose" Knuckles. She is expected to be back in the wrestling ring in six months. We just talked to the doctor and the surgery was a success. It took quite a bit longer to do the surgery than they anticipated because of how muscular Mickie is. The doctor's quote was "we expected someone with the muscle mass of a 24 year old female and we got a construction worker instead." Due to the amount of muscle mass in her legs from all the hindu squats, when the muscles spasmed after the bone broke, it caused the bones to slide past each other. They had to stretch the bones back out to get them end to end in order to insert the titanium rod. He expects that Mickie will be able to walk out of the hospital on Wednesday with crutches and maybe she can recover and go through therapy enough to be back inside a wrestling ring inside of 6 months. The doctor said that it was a "perfect storm" of "freak events" that had to cause the injury due to how strong she is but that such things do occur. We are hoping to be able to see Mickie in the next 90 minutes or so after she gets out of the recovery room. Once again, we thank all of the great fans that have been kind and sympathetic in this horrible time and have offered their well wishes and prayers. Our phones have been ringing nonstop and our email boxes have been filling with people wanting updates. We can't respond personally to all of them so please just accept these updates on the board and pass them along to friends as needed. Even though the surgery is over and was deemed successful, please keep Mickie in your thoughts as she will need the support in order to get through rehab and return as soon as she is back to 100%. I'll try to update later tonight after leaving the hospital if anything new happens.

Nice. I wonder what TNA will try to pull storyline-wise in explaining where she went.

 

[chessarmy]

^ They'll probably just say that she got injured at a Live event. Hopefully Mickie heals up fast so we can see her back in the ring soon.