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“My Knee Exploded” – WWE Star Gives Heartbreaking Health Update

By Lyle Kilbane • Published Aug 13, 2025 09:10 EDT
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One WWE star has given a worrying insight into their current injury status, noting that their knee exploded.

Adriana Rizzo recently revealed she had suffered a serious injury that would keep her out of action for up to a year. The former member of The D’Angelo Family has now explained exactly what happened as she looks to shut down rumours.

WWE’s Adriana Rizzo Shuts Down Fairytale Rumours

Speaking in a video on social media, Rizzo explained that she already had a partial ACL tear from 18 months previously and was happy to keep training and competing in a WWE ring until she suffered a full tear, which would require surgery to fix:

I had a partial tear. Partial, not fully. Partial tear on my ACL. A year and a half ago, I was doing a throw over my head and somebody pushed my knee in, partially tore my ACL. Whatever. I’m fine. I worked through it for a year and a half. Yes, I knew there was a chance it was gonna fully tear, but I wasn’t about to sit out for a year and a half because I got, you know, a splinter on my ACL. I’m gonna get surgery when the whole kabang goes. So, I’m gonna go as long as I can until that happens.

Yes, I knew it was a possibility. Yes, I made the decision. Yes, I’m still happy about my decision. So, what happened was I was at practice, I was doing a drill, I’m running over to the corner and boom, my knee just, you know, bada bing, bada boom, explodes. I fall over, I lay on the floor for like four minutes because I knew. I knew my knee exploded and then I was like, ‘Well, sh*t, there it goes.’

There it goes. So, that’s the story of my knee. So everyone can stop making up their little fairytale rumours because that’s what happened. Alright, have a good day.

The rumours Adriana Rizzo might be alluding to may have something to do with her being the latest in a long line of female WWE NXT stars, such as Nikkita Lyons and Sol Ruca, to suffer the same injury in recent years. This has raised questions about how talent is being trained in the Performance Center.

In other WWE news, it seems one champion could be out for a “long, long time”, leading to questions about why and what it means for their title.