WWE: Kevin Owens Says He’s Waiting Until Mid-July for Neck Surgery, Chad Gable Reportedly Undergoing Surgery This July for Undisclosed Injury, Backstage Update on Dominik Mysterio’s Injury

Jun 25, 2025

Kevin Owens Neck Injury Status Update – Owens Says He’s Waiting Until Mid-July for Neck Surgery

As noted before, Kevin Owens has been out of action for WWE since this past April due to a neck injury.

A recent episode of What Do You Want To Talk About? with Cody Rhodes podcast featured Owens as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Owens providing an update on the status of his neck injury recovery and stating he is waiting until mid-July to undergo surgery to repair it.

“It’s been such a frustrating process. We’re trying to let my spinal cord heal as much as it can on its own before we go in for the surgery. How extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there. The trauma happened in January, it was building up, but January is what did it. Then we had this nice and easy ladder match where nothing crazy happened at all, and I kept going for a while. The first week in April is when we had the MRI and they were like, ‘You can’t even get hit. Don’t get hit. You might die.’ Everything took a turn and now it’s been four months almost since my last match. We’re waiting until mid-July to do the surgery. Hopefully, it’s a normal neck fusion. It might not be. We don’t know. Since then, I’ve felt fine. My neck has been fine, I’m not in pain. I have not really had any symptoms of what you would expect somebody with a spinal cord injury to have.
In the last week, for some reason, the symptoms all came in one shot. Every symptom you’d expect me to have; the pain in the neck, the stuff going down the arms, the legs not really responding. It’s all been happening. It’s been pretty brutal. I can’t wait for this surgery. To move forward, whatever that looks like, it’s been very frustrating. I felt great. We had two incidents where, basically, in the ring, my legs fell asleep and I was like, ‘There is something wrong.’ We thought it was one thing, which is why we didn’t go right away for the neck because it wasn’t consistent with a neck injury. We looked at everything else and it wasn’t that. ‘Let’s take a look at the neck.’ It was that. Besides those two instances where my legs kind of fell asleep in the ring, I felt great. I’d have doctors call me. I’ve been very fortunate to have Randy [Orton], TJ [Wilson], and WWE put me in touch with all the best spine surgeons they have. They’re great. I’ve spoken to all these different surgeons, they give me their opinions on what they would do. All in the hopes that I can get back in the ring and be safe. I have all these opinions. All of them were like, ‘You don’t have any symptoms?’ ‘No, except for the time my legs fell asleep. I’m fine now. They came back. No pain, no discomfort, I’m great.’ The last week, everything hit. Now, it’s a different story. Now, I can’t wait to get the surgery. Not just because I want to get back in the ring, just because I want to not be in pain.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Chad Gable Undisclosed Injury Status Update – Gable Reportedly Undergoing Surgery This July

As noted before, Chad Gable is currently out of action for WWE due to an undisclosed injury.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Gable is currently scheduled to undergo surgery for his injury this July.

No other details are currently known regarding the nature nor timetable for a potential return for Gable is currently known.

Fightful Select reported that besides Gable, El Grande Americano is also currently out of action for WWE due to an undisclosed injury as well. It was reported that Americano’s injury is the same as the one Gable suffered and it was a total coincidence that this happened at the same time as Gable’s injury.

Backstage Update on Dominik Mysterio’s Injury

As noted before, this past Monday’s WWE RAW show in Colombus, Ohio featured RAW GM Adam Pearce announcing that Dominik Mysterio is currently out of action due to an undisclosed injury. Pearce had also announced that the Intercontinental Championship match between AJ Styles and Mysterio for this weekend’s Night of Champions 2025 event was also pulled as a result.

PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that Mysterio had recently suffered a legitimate rib injury for the reason for his removal from this weekend’s Night of Champions 2025 event.

Those spoken to reportedly stated that Mysterio’s recovery from his injury is currently not expected to keep him out of action for long.