R-Truth Recalls Being Told He Might Need To Have His Leg Amputated In 2022

WWE World Tag Team Champion R-Truth recently appeared on an episode of The Ringer Wrestling Show podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including finding out an injury he suffered during a match on NXT in November of 2022 was worse than expected.

Truth said, โ€œSo, heโ€™s looking at it [after the wound wasnโ€™t healing], and before he even took the stitches out, he said โ€˜Oh, I need to clean it up.โ€™ So, he sprayed the solution on it and when he cleaned it up, there was an actual hole in my knee.โ€

On being told it might need to be amputated:

โ€œMy whole world stopped โ€ฆ I was just thinking about not being here for my family, for yโ€™aโ€™ll, for meโ€ฆ [I realized] You gotta keep moving, life donโ€™t stop, you canโ€™t stop, you gotta keep going. So, adapting, evolving, mentally.โ€

On the wound ultimately healing:

โ€œI got the stitches out and the doctor gave me a high five, so the high five was like โ€˜Oh, am I there now?โ€™ he said โ€˜Yeah, we can high five!’โ€

You can check out the complete podcast below.