[DavidDeacon]

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TNA Knockout Breaks Her Leg In "Sid-Like Fashion" At Indy Show Sunday Night One TNA Knockout is going to be out of action for a very long time. According to various eyewitness accounts online, new TNA Knockout Mickie "Moose" Knuckles reportedly broke her leg after diving off a high platform at the IWA Mid-South presents Summertime Black & Blues indy show in Joliet, Illinois earlier tonight. A wrestler dove off a high platform earlier in the show, said to be former WWE developmental Robert Anthony under his masked "Egotistico Fantastico" gimmick. Knuckles didn't want to do the same exact spot, so she went on an even higher platform near the announcing area. According to Ed Chuman, who is the promoter for NWA Midwest Wrestling, Knuckles took a jump from a high platform and came down with all of her weight on one leg. Sara Del Ray, her opponent for the match, tried to catch her, but was unable to latch on to the free-falling 185-pound women's wrestler. Chuman compared the injury to Sid Vicious' severe leg fracture at a WCW event in January 2001, but in her case, the leg snap was above the knee. Here is what Chuman posted on the ChicagoProWrestling.com message board regarding Knuckles' incident earlier tonight: I just got a call from some of the boys at Ian's show tonight. They said Mickie broke her leg doing a dive. From what I understand she landed on one leg with all her weight & it snapped like Sid's did back in WCW, but above the knee. This is a very sad thing too have happen to her especially with her work in TNA at present. I'll I can say is how sorry I am to hear this, and wish her the best in her recovery. Modification: It seems that someone else did a dive, and Mickie didn't want to do the same dive, and decided to dive off some balcony, or higher position. Sara tried to catch her, but as stated before she came down on 1 leg, and that was that. I've now heard from Joey, Jason Dukes, Sara through Kong who already heard all the way in Tampa. Another message board poster said that Knuckles ended up breaking her femur, which is the thigh bone. The IWA-MS show was immediately canceled and an ambulance was called to tend to Knuckles. One person in attendance said on the message board, "I was there and it was really bad to watch. As soon as it happened you just saw everyone get up and they waved Ian over right away and he made them cut the cameras too." Knuckles was expected to sign a contract with TNA, but it is unknown if she actually signed the deal as there is a lot hearsay going around regarding the finality of the matter. She was originally brought into the company a few weeks ago as a bodyguard type for "The Beautiful People" after former WWE Women's Champion Jazz declined the role due to pregnancy. Knuckles was in the midst of strong push in TNA, having won matches on the past two editions of Impact.

Source: http://rajah.com/base/node/12941

That's incredibly unfortunate. But if it was her femur that broke, she must have weak bones because I've heard that it's supposed to be the hardest bone in the human body to break

[GrayGhost]

Yes, this is sad news indeed for her. Best on a speedy recovery.

[#1SpiderFan]

DAMN! She was just getting started in TNA too. Best wishes to her for a speedy recovery.

[Rachel5831]

she freaks me out a little bit...

definitly unfortunate, but i dunno if i'll miss her.

[InfamousTIM]

[GrayGhost]

Yech. thats sickening.

[Superstar Steve]

ouch. That was pretty brutal.

[DavidDeacon]

Whoa... Damn, she DID break her femur.

Until I saw that I thought she just possibly tore up the tendons and crap in her knee and it just bent sideways, but FUCK that's...wow...

[eastman]

I was sitting up on the stage at the commentary table when this happened. I just got home from the hospital a few hours ago. She was going into surgery this morning and they are placing a rod in her leg. This was without a doubt the most gruesome injury I've ever seen in my time in this business.

[MAV]

eastman wrote:

I was sitting up on the stage at the commentary table when this happened. I just got home from the hospital a few hours ago. She was going into surgery this morning and they are placing a rod in her leg. This was without a doubt the most gruesome injury I've ever seen in my time in this business.

I don't know her, but man...Joey, give her everybody's best.

Shit like that makes me want to stick to doing nothing but comedy.

[DavidDeacon]

Yeah, wish her luck on behalf of the forum.

[eastman]

I will indeed pass along everyone's best.

Update from Ian Rotten is that she is slated for the surgery at 4pm central time and she is going to be out for 8 months to a year. I think Mickie missing time away from the ring will put more pain on her than the actual injury.

The fucked up thing about it was that it wasn't a "crazy" dive. She was caught and everything else....she just landed on 1 leg. I agree Mav, comedy is the answer.

PS: While she was in her hospital bed in extreme pain, I calmly walked up to her and told her Sonny Goodspeed's "Smell Mop" joke. She laughed and called me an asshole. She's in about as good a spirits as one can be in this shitty time.

[Rachel5831]

wow, after seeing that, WOW.
i definitly hope she has a full recovery.

[FlairFanatic]

Didnt she JUST get a TNA contract? Yikes...

[DavidDeacon]

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-- IWA-MS promoter Ian Rotten's wife Patti released the following statement regarding the condition of Mickie "Moose" Knuckles. She is expected to be back in the wrestling ring in six months. We just talked to the doctor and the surgery was a success. It took quite a bit longer to do the surgery than they anticipated because of how muscular Mickie is. The doctor's quote was "we expected someone with the muscle mass of a 24 year old female and we got a construction worker instead." Due to the amount of muscle mass in her legs from all the hindu squats, when the muscles spasmed after the bone broke, it caused the bones to slide past each other. They had to stretch the bones back out to get them end to end in order to insert the titanium rod. He expects that Mickie will be able to walk out of the hospital on Wednesday with crutches and maybe she can recover and go through therapy enough to be back inside a wrestling ring inside of 6 months. The doctor said that it was a "perfect storm" of "freak events" that had to cause the injury due to how strong she is but that such things do occur. We are hoping to be able to see Mickie in the next 90 minutes or so after she gets out of the recovery room. Once again, we thank all of the great fans that have been kind and sympathetic in this horrible time and have offered their well wishes and prayers. Our phones have been ringing nonstop and our email boxes have been filling with people wanting updates. We can't respond personally to all of them so please just accept these updates on the board and pass them along to friends as needed. Even though the surgery is over and was deemed successful, please keep Mickie in your thoughts as she will need the support in order to get through rehab and return as soon as she is back to 100%. I'll try to update later tonight after leaving the hospital if anything new happens.

Source: http://rajah.com/base/node/12953

"Perfect storm of freak events?" Well that gives me a little relief, was worried there might have been something wrong with her bones for her femur to be broken.

[eastman]

Another quick update:

Mickie had her first physical therapy session today. She even walked around on her crutches a bit. She's still a bit nauseous from the meds, but she is in great spirits.

[MAV]

eastman wrote:

Another quick update: Mickie had her first physical therapy session today. She even walked around on her crutches a bit. She's still a bit nauseous from the meds, but she is in great spirits.

Maybe she could cut down on them by mailing some to me.

Just kidding. Tell her to stay as high as possible for a while.

[Ballard1979]

i remember watching the show where sid broke his leg on PPV or when LT broke Joe thesman's leg on MNF. what i am trying to get at is, after watching the vid of her breaking her leg, this is by far the worse 1 i have ever seen.

godspeed, and get well

[eastman]

Probably the last report.

She is out of the hospital in Chicago and back at home in Louisville KY. Her job at TNA will be waiting for her when she is healed.