Former WWE & TNA superstar Matt Morgan has announced via his social channels that he needs to undergo back surgery. He specified that issues with his back stem from his days as a basketball player and that he periodically felt a ‘bolt of electricity’ shoot from his spine down to his foot when he slam-dunked the ball.
Due to a prior opioid addiction, he is not permitted to take any painkillers. Morgan has said he is currently experiencing the most excruciating pain that he has ever dealt with. Unfortunately, the surgery needs be imminent or he risks losing all the feeling in his left foot.
He said, “Please keep me in your prayers gang, as I go in for back surgery at 6am! In a game of basketball, I dunked it, but when I landed, felt a huge bolt of electricity shoot down my spine, all the way down my left leg and foot. Back in 2002 when I first started wrestling, I originally hurt my back. It led me to severe opioid addiction. After being a functioning addict for the early years of my WWE career, I finally got help, and now 17 plus years, still sober. but this has been the most excruciating pain I’ve ever dealt with in my lifetime! I can’t take any painkillers for it, because I have to maintain my sobriety. I got an epidural, nothing! Then got a nerve block injection, that lasted for four hours, and then it got worse after it wore off. Each progressing day, my left foot has gotten more numb! Met with five surgeons (both spinal and neurosurgeons) and we’re doing a reflex test on my left foot, they said if I don’t get surgery ASAP I will lose all feeling at it.”
Morgan laid out some more examples of how he hurt himself further in his pro wrestling career. He said “There was a time when I was wrestling with TNA Impact Wrestling where I set my opponent up on a table (Bubba Ray Dudley) on the outside of the ring, and I went to the top rope where I jumped off in a leg drop position (non-wrestling fans: a seated 90° position) and the spot called for him to move out of the way, while I went through the table, crashing in that 90° position, right through to the concrete floor on my tailbone. That was the next time I felt that same both of electricity and numbness to my left leg. I was able to rehab it, get a nerve block injection in my spine to make the pain go away, but I was able to finish off my wrestling career in 2014, virtually pain-free. Since then, I’ve never had any lower back issues thanks to naturally treating it. But nothing I’m doing is helping, and I have no choice but to now get this surgery.”
Morgan finished by asking fans to pray for him through this procedure. “Love you all very much! And any prayers you can send my way that everything goes as perfect as it can, to fix this problem in my L5/S1, left leg, and left foot, you have no clue how much I would appreciate! Please and thank you again!”
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