NEWS: Sting Nearly Paralyzed, Still Needs Neck Surgery

NEWS: The Icon Sting was recently a guest on Ric Flair's Wooooo! Nation Podcast. Sting revealed that he was actually temporarily paralyzed in his match with then WWE Champion Seth Rollins, a match in which Sting was significantly injured. Flair asked Sting about his current health status and Sting dropped the following,

"MRI's and neurologists have been looking at it, Dr. Maroon out of Pittsburgh, he's looked at it. He's telling me that I'll have to have a surgery. The dust only in the last couple weeks has kind of started to settle a little bit for me, just trying to get so much done in life but now it's time to go get this thing taken care of. No, I'm hoping (they don't have to do a fusion surgery). I know that's one of the techniques that they use and I'm not sure if Dr. Maroon will have to do that or not. I've got two spots in my neck that are troublesome. I guess it's called cervical spinal stenosis. That's what it is. I have two areas in my neck where the spinal canal, which holds the spinal cord, it's kind of choked off in two different locations. Lucky that a catastrophe didn't happen that night, long story short. I've gotta go get it fixed. I guess John Cena had something very similar, he had his fixed, and Dr. Maroon has done several of the WWE guys up there and all with great success."

Spinal stenosis is what inevitably ended Edge's in-ring career.