WWE Star Announces Surgery On Social Media

In a post on Instagram, former WWE World Tag Team Champion JD McDonagh revealed that he was going to miss time due to surgery. McDonagh didn't reveal what the specific injury was, but said he needed to fix a lot of lingering issues that forced him to compete at less than 100% for a lot of the year.

JD McDonagh injured and set for surgery, will be back to WWE soon

McDonagh confirmed in the same post that he didn't think he'd be gone long, but also didn't provide an exact return date either.

“Been working thru some stuff for the last few months, but now is the time to pump the brakes and get put back together. Won’t be long, BRB.”JD McDonagh

McDonagh officially joined The Judgment Day faction in 2023, when it was comprised of Damian Priest, Finn Balor, Dominik Mysterio, and Rhea Ripley.

Now, the group consists of Balor, McDonagh, Mysterio, Liv Morgan, Raquel Rodriguez, and Roxanne Perez. Perez joined the faction shortly after making her main roster debut.

McDonagh and Balor won the tag team championships in 2025, but lost them to the current champs, AJ Styles and Dragon Lee. Lee and Styles successfully defended those championships at Saturday Night's Main Event over the weekend against Je'Von Evans and Leon Slater from NXT and TNA, respectively.

McDonagh took some punishment in 2025. He punctured a lung and broke a rib on a suicide dive in a match on Raw earlier in the year. That injury kept him out of action for a couple of months. He returned in April and rejoined his faction mates.

The Judgment Day has a big week on its hands, and it'll have to succeed without McDonagh. On this week's episode of WWE Raw, Raquel Rodriguez will challenge Stephanie Vaquer for the WWE Women's World Championship.

Rodriguez demanded the match on last week's show after she stormed the ring and took out Nikki Bella, before Bella could make the challenger herself.