The very September 20th night that Sting clashed with Seth Rollins at WWE's Night of Champions 2015 pay-per-view event, it was feared that "The Icon" might have suffered a career-ending neck injury from a pair of turnbuckle bombs.
Well, whether that turns out to be the case or not remains to be seen, but what's clear is the 56-year-old wrestling superstar will need neck surgery, which at the very least will keep him out of the ring for a significant amount of time.
Sting, real name Steve Borden, revealed that on Ric Flair's WOOOO! Nation podcast this week and spoke about how he's putting all the blame on himself, not Rollins.
"Both buckle bombs, not Seth's fault, completely mine, I have no idea what I did, I have no idea, but my neck whiplashed on both of them," Sting says on the podcast, as reported by Yahoo Sports. "On the second one, he picked me up and I'm having a casual conversation in my own mind as I'm hoisted up on his shoulders thinking 'okay, Steve, tuck your chin. Do what you know how to do. This is ridiculous.' I wasn't worried at all, even though the first one I had a shock going down the left and right thigh down both down to the fingertips."
The second buckle bomb was even worse, resulting in what Sting described as "temporary paralysis" in his legs.
"For a few minutes, I thought, 'I don't think I can continue, I think I'm done,'" he said.
Although Sting finished the match, he knew right then and there that he had a long road to recovery ahead of him.
Upon examinations since the September PPV, Sting learned he has cervical spinal stenosis.
"I have two areas in my neck where the spinal canal, which holds the spinal cord, it's kind of choked off in two different locations," he said. "Lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen that night, long story short."
The WWE Universe should learn soon enough if Sting will attempt to give it one last shot or call it a career.
If the latter ... oh, what a career it was.
