Karl Anderson Out Of Action For Up To 9 Months

Karl Anderson has struggled for consistent TV time throughout 2024, competing just 16 times across WWE’s three brands since the year began. His last televised match came on the September 24 episode of NXT when he and Good Brothers tag team partner Luke Gallows lost to NXT’s Hank Walker and Tank Ledger. Don’t expect to see Anderson again on WWE programming any time soon, as the former WWE Tag Team Champion has announced that he will be out for a while.

Anderson took to social media earlier this week, posting a picture of his shoulder wrapped and padded up and his arm in a brace. Later in the week on the Talk N Shop podcast, Anderson revealed that he will be out of the ring for up to nine months after undergoing surgery on a torn rotator cuff and partially torn labrum. 

"It happened two months ago, I felt something in a match, and didn't think anything of it because that's what we do. The next week, something else happened in a match again. 'That hurt a little worse,' but still thought nothing of it because that's how we've always rolled. We had three or four more matches, and each other, progressively, I realized, 'This thing hurts.' I wasn't able to sleep at night because it was aching and throbbing. 'Let me tell somebody.' I talked to the WWE doctors who handled it right away and they immediately scheduled me for an anthrogram. They immediately saw it was a torn rotator cuff tendon and a partially torn labrum.”

He noted that he will be in the brace for around six weeks. 

H/T Fightful