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Current Champion Going out for Major Neck Surgery and ruled out for Months


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In desperately sad - and major - news, it has emerged that NXT Champion Tommaso Ciampa is set for imminent neck surgery. Per Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, WWE has confirmed to him this heart-wrenching development, one that will see Ciampa on the sidelines for a "long, long time."

Ciampa is certain to vacate the NXT Championship and miss, at the very least, several months of action.

We'd read murmurs of injury, and reports of withdrawn dates, but the belief up to this point was that Ciampa may soldier through.

This, not to be histrionic about things, wasn't a mere championship to vacate. We were raging towards the blow-off of an intricate, layered two-and-a-half year story - of the hardest road to recognition, the toll it took on a friendship, and the seminal, physical eruption of it. It did not end there; Johnny Gargano, warped by the depths to which Ciampa plunged him, evolved into a fascinating anti-hero of sorts.

But it ends now, shockingly, on the eve of the final chapter. It's such a cruel development, in that it has deprived of us of what, from a purely artistic standpoint, may well be the greatest narrative ever crafted under the WWE umbrella.

Any optimistic sense of storyline synergy, or a sequel - Ciampa, of course, had already spent time on the sidelines throughout the epic story - is undermined by the idea that it will take place, if at all, on WWE's main roster.

This is a disaster, but not an emergency - the NXT think-tank has one set of tapings to build towards a main event of TakeOver calibre - but in the meantime, WhatCulture Wrestling wishes Ciampa the best in his surgery and recovery.

 

Credit:- What Culture Wrestling

 

Nero

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This is horrible if true, but im gonna take with a grain of salt because i dont see this reported anywhere else yet, and is whatculture really that legitimate? (Serious question, i dont follow them.). Should this be true though then id be absolutely gutted, what shit *censored*ing timing.

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Whatculture has a big enough name to say with certainty that they wouldn't post the article, had it not been true.

 

 

Nero also doesn't seem like the type to post articles when there is a doubt it could be fake news.

 

Adding to that, Ciampa has been cancelling lots of commitments recently, even those outside WWE.

 

 

It's legit.

 

It's a shame because the Ciampa-Gargano rivalry is imo the best one they have made. Period. That's not a challenge to anyone out there to post a rivalry they think is better btw. I don't care. Ciampa vs. Gargano was gorgeous and it was about to reach a climax. It's dead now and that's really *censored*ing painful.

 

Even worse is how they're describing the injury. Out for a "long, long time" sounds seriously career-threatening and if he recovers, it will take at least a year, might take years.

 

It's absolutely devastating news.

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This makes me think back to Edge man i feel so bad for Ciampa. He was doing so awesome :(

That Edge comparison made me think... When he's ready to return, they should hold him out until that year's MitB. Have Johnny in it and clean house at the end, then slowly climb the ladder. *insert villainous authority figure here* then comes out and says "Wait! There's one more member in this match!" Cue NO ONE WILL SURVIVE, Ciampa runs out, pushes Johnny off the ladder and wins the briefcase.

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This makes me think back to Edge man i feel so bad for Ciampa. He was doing so awesome :(

That Edge comparison made me think... When he's ready to return, they should hold him out until that year's MitB. Have Johnny in it and clean house at the end, then slowly climb the ladder. *insert villainous authority figure here* then comes out and says "Wait! There's one more member in this match!" Cue NO ONE WILL SURVIVE, Ciampa runs out, pushes Johnny off the ladder and wins the briefcase.

 

 

Hard pass.

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