More On Moose's Surgery, James Mitchell/TNA, & More News
As noted very late last night, James Mitchell has been released from his TNA contract. His bio has already been removed from the TNA website. This cut is a little surprising as he was expected to return to television as soon as Abyss did. He is the third talent to part ways with the company in the past two weeks including Rellik and Scott D'Amore.
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.
TNA will be returning to New York City in September with some house shows. Here is a statement they released on their official website: "Total Nonstop Action Wrestling is coming back to New York City in September! TNAwrestling.com will post complete details this week, including dates and venues. More info to come...