 What's good y'all it's your boy Ross back again again with another video somewhere you check out 10 WWE stars who actually benefited from injuries sometimes a Injury can happen to a wrestler and you may think all it's gonna derail the push They're not gonna be as over. You know It may it looks like it may be the end of their or their potential title run or whatever the situation may be and sometimes There's something creative that happens and they're able to turn that injury into maybe a storyline or maybe into something else That could get that potential wrestler over and during the time being while they're injured So, you know, it all comes down to who how creative they can get in the back when it when things like this happen But we're gonna check this out appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on channel Injuries and professional wrestling go hand-in-hand and are an assumed hazard of being a WWE superstar And while nobody ever wants to suffer one injuries don't always have to be bad news either for the unfortunate performer who gets injured or Another star who may be able to benefit from it Whether it's a push storyline big match or even title run there have been some WWE stars who took advantage of an absence including their own even if they didn't truly realize it was positive at the time I'm Adam Peciti from cult allic wrestling and these are 10 WWE stars who benefited from injuries join us The first this video is sponsored by Raid Shadow Ledger Injuries and a high-profile departure leaving the blue brand bereft of main event talent Brock Lesnar famously quit the company to try out for football while Kurt Angle was out with yet more neck trouble Big show meanwhile could soldier on through the post-wrestle mania tour of Europe But he desperately needed knee surgery and would also be MIA for several months It left the company as well as WWE champion Eddie Guerrero in a difficult spot Not helped much by a disappointing draft just eight days after the showcase of the immortals rather than move a top star over from Raw WWE decided to repackage existing mid-carder Bradshaw who transformed from beer loving bar room brawler to Latino loathing stock market with JBL it was a stark and sudden change But WWE were all in on John Bradshaw layfield who prior to the headliner crisis was going through the motions alongside Ron Simmons in the dependable Apa JBL not only got a huge push and pay-per-view main events opposite Guerrero But dethroned him for the title in the rematch kicking off a 280-day reign that wouldn't have happened had the next big thing Olympic hero and world's largest athletes all been available number nine Talented popular work this one right here was right place right time. It just sucks cuz Mustafa Mustafa Ali he He was supposed to be slated in this spot But he ended up getting injured and that's when I believe he ended up taking the eliminate He he replaced him in the elimination chamber, which Which he ended up getting over and like coffee was always over but he got even more over because people were really starting to get behind him and It's crazy an injury pretty much Catapulted and started the coffee mania situation, which is so insane when you really think about it Of course who perhaps doesn't get many opportunities at the top level goes down with an injury before a major match The ideal scenario would be replacing him with another talented popular workhorse who perhaps doesn't get many opportunities At the top level days before he was scheduled to compete for the WWE title in the titular match at 2019's elimination chamber Mustafa Ali suffered a concussion at a non-televised live event ruling him out Smackdown stars like Rey Mysterio on Drade, Shinsuke Nakamura and Rusev were pecked to round out the field in his place But the nod ultimately went to Kofi Kingston The new day man impressed everyone in the gauntlet match to determine who entered the chamber last and while he wasn't successful His performance in the match and the swell of crowd support that greeted it convinced WWE to change direction Kofi came up short at the pay-per-view with Daniel Bryan retaining his title But his efforts and popularity once again caused WWE to change course Kingston got another crack at the gold at WrestleMania winning the match in one of the best feel-good moments in WWE history it was fates and an unfortunate Concussion to a co-worker that took in there number eight triple H when triple H tore his quad in the main event of the May 21st 2001 episode of raw he must have thought that it happened at the worst possible time The game had been on a serious roll that year and there's no doubt another run with the WWE title was in his near future After all he was in the middle of a run teaming with WWE champion Steve Austin And there's simply no way that Stone Cold and the cerebral assassin would be able to coexist forever While triple H missed out on the best part of a year including major pay-per-views like Summer Slam and Survivor series His absence was actually a blessing in disguise Because Hunter missed the entirety of the messy invasion storyline and I forgot to rehab himself That's crazy. I forgot he wasn't a part of that. He was not a part of the whole invasion storyline He he was out with injury and then when he came back. It was just that poppy got was ridiculous Return right around the Royal Rumble his layoff coupled with the inspirational vignette showing how hard he worked to get back Into the ring helped fans forget that he was a hated heel when he went away and transformed him into the biggest baby face in the company Yeah, the poppy received when he returned at Madison Square Garden said it all and he really was the only choice to win the rumble and go on to Main event WrestleMania number seven Dolph Ziggler WWE were all aboard the Roman Reigns train in 2014 choo choo big dog coming through and if everything had gone According to plan he would have been the featured performer in the survivor series main event It was all set up for Reigns to thwart the authority in the traditional elimination tag Roman was forced onto the sidelines after he had to undergo emergency hernia surgery a couple of months before God It was Dolph that was was the one that pretty much He pretty much was like the one that got even though Dolph is Dolph was one of those people where The fans loved him is just we knew management weren't gonna really I guess push him To those to the lengths where we would want him to be at so him being one of the people on the survivor team Survivor series team again I think he was like the last man standing in the crowd getting really over like we'll really get behind him once again It was a cool moment to see Stepped to Dolph Ziggler who briefly inherited Roman's push out of the blue While the show off didn't go on to win the Royal Rumble or headline WrestleMania or anything like that Reigns was back in time to do all of that stuff. His career did experience an upsurge toward the end of 2014 This was especially evident at Survivor series where Dolph eliminated Kane Luke Harper and Seth Rollins to finish the match as sole survivor with a timely assist from Sting Real momentum coming out of the show to carrying him to an intercontinental title triumph over Harper at TLC the following month Number six Kevin Irons We're given the opportunity to write their names in the WWE history books when they met to determine the first-ever Universal champion at SummerSlam 2016 and this moment right here special to me because it happened in Houston, Texas, bro. Oh man, yeah Just I'm gonna let him explain for those who don't know but if you know, you know Oh, man, this was a great one after a hard-fought brilliant battle It was Balor who prevailed putting Rollins away with the Cudigrata become the inaugural champ It was a big moment for Balor winning his first WWE main roster title in the semi-main events of one of the company's biggest shows of the year The next night on Raw Finn was forced to relinquish the title as a result of an injury sustained during the match The previous evening then the following week Kevin Owens won a four-way to determine a new Champion besting Rollins Roman Reigns a good At SummerSlam the price fighter had been in the opener tagging with Chris Jericho against Casanenzo Amore And now just over a week later He was the top dog on the red brand it kicked off a stellar six or so months for KO and it might not have happened Had Balor not needed surgery and the crazy thing is like I said It's it's one of my favorite endings to a Monday night Raw, bro Here in the Houston crowd you have any Houston Texas here in the Houston crowd chanting you deserve it Oh was such a beautiful moment, bro. Oh my god. That was such a great moment to hear the crowd chanting you deserve it as Monday night Raw went off the air when he won the championship. So cool Number five Randy Orton Randy Orton's WWE career seemed to be going from strength to strength as the year 2002 wore on The third generation star was clearly loaded with potential and a switch from Smackdown to Raw a company by a stronger push Signaled that the company had bigger plans for him Regrettably Orton injured his famously dodgy shoulder after just two matches on the flagship show It could have been a serious momentum halter But WWE decided to keep young Randy on television in the form of his RNN updates The weekly Randy news network segments allowed the legend killer to not only retain a presence on Raw But also to show that he actually had some decent charisma and personality by having him lean into his naturally Healish demeanor interrupting the matches or segments of other stars RNN provided fans with information on how Orton's recovery was going directly from the man himself as the weeks wore on Randy got more and more arrogant Gradually turning him heel this led to Orton returning proper as a member of evolution Something that might not have been accepted if he had stayed healthy and continued with the clean-cut babyface rookie shtick instead Zack Ryder of all the times to get injured doing so right before you're about to make your WrestleMania debut ranks up there as one of the least ideal and most crushing Poor Neville was just a few weeks away from appearing in the intercontinental title ladder match at mania 32 When a routine baseball slide resulted in an ankle fracture that put him on the shelf for the best part of the rest of the Filling in for Neville was the unlikely Zack Ryder the hard-working but long-suffering jobber to the stars who spent most of his time on Superstars and main events before being drafted in as a substitute Nobody gave the prospect of Long Island IC actually winning the thing much credence Of course assuming that he was merely there to make up the numbers Incredibly though Ryder ended up holding the IC title at the end of it and got to celebrate his huge Unexpected title win in the ring with his dad after yes He lost it to the Miz the very next night on Raw But the win gave Zack a genuine WrestleMania moment and allowed him to call himself a former intercontinental champion Regardless of the brevity of his reign number three Shawn Michaels ah Shawn Michaels and injuries. There's a history there isn't there during the 90s the heartbreak kid routinely forfeited titles including the WWE title itself when he suffered devastating setbacks like a lost smile Sometimes Shawn benefited from these dubious injuries Sometimes his mates did but sometimes Michaels really was cropped and others moved into his spots HBK has also been the beneficiary when others have gotten hurt including his DX partner and best pal Triple H when the game blew out his other quad just a few months before WrestleMania 23 WWE's plans for the granddaddy of them all went out the window Hunter was due to clash with WWE Champion John Cena and a rematch from the year before But the injury meant that he would be out until the summer So who better than mr. WrestleMania himself to step up and ensure big match John had a that was that was a good match That was a fun match. I don't think anyone would have been you know Would have complained if John dropped the title to Shawn for one more one more time for him Shawn to be the WWE champ just one more go man I think a lot of us wanted that to happen, but either way they had they had a good rivalry or raw This was a good match Good feud enjoyed this for you a banger Slotting in seamlessly the showstopper helped carry the feud an eventual match closing out mania for the first time in Three years for what turned out to be a record-breaking show number two Steve Austin Stone Cold Steve Austin was on an unstoppable path to the top of the WWE mountain when his career almost ended in the blink of an eye Owen Hart's botched sit-out tombstone pile driver in their match at SummerSlam 1997 left the Texas rattlesnake fearing paralysis But luckily he was able to regain his faculties and somehow avoid surgery at least for another couple of years But make no mistake about it Austin's neck was seriously messed up And he wouldn't be able to wrestle for a few months adding insult to injury He would have to forfeit the tag team and intercontinental titles too Not to worry though because Stone Cold could still raise a fair amount of hell without putting on his boots and trunks WWE were not about to take one of their hottest stars off the show So they had Austin cut promos challenge authority and hit stunners in lieu of taking bumps These hell-raising antics only made him a bigger star and had fans Chomping at the bit to see him get back in the ring and win the WWE title Which was very smart of them They just had them in segments that didn't require him to actually have to get in the ring yet And it still kept his momentum at that fever pitch even though he wasn't in the ring But one Becky Lynch It would be unfair to call Becky Lynch an overnight star But the visual of her bloody face after getting punched by Nia Jax at the end of the November 12th 2018 episode of Raw was her Austin 316 moment Transforming the Smackdown women's champion from a superstar into a megastar The man was scheduled to clash with Raw women's champion Ronda Rousey in an interbrand battle at Survivor Series six days later When she caught a stiff one from Nia during the big melee sustaining a busted nose and a nasty concussion The upshot was she was replaced in the bout by Charlotte Flair, which the Queen lost via DQ There is no doubt that Becky would have done the honours in some form or fashion for the undefeated Rowdy Ronda So her being pulled from the match was like a stay of execution and protected her from a potentially momentum halting loss Lynch being taken out of the bout coupled with her iconic glare after being smacked by Nia Was the catalyst for a run to the first ever women's WrestleMania main event and a major victory over Flair and Rousey in a historic unification match The pain was temporary But Becky's injury led to moments that will last forever And you know what's crazy about that whole situation is the fact that Her getting injured saved her momentum Her getting punched in the face bloodied up and still out there looking like a complete savage Not doing the job to Ronda Not losing the Ronda it ultimately helped Because if she would have to have that match she probably would have to look she was gonna lose Ronda so this worked out probably There's no better way this could have possibly worked out Unfortunately, she had to get injured for it But ultimately she ended up being protected and she became mega over even because of it. So That's that's the crazy thing how sometimes an injury in wrestling could ultimately Catapult you or somebody else to that next level, you know, so you never know but comment down below Let me know man. What's a moment like a I guess you can say A moment you feel like a wrestler Ended up benefiting from them getting injured outside of the ones that's that you've seen in this video like because they got injured It ultimately kind of helped them In their overall career going forward either when they came back They became more over or you know, it ended up helping somebody else Let me know some other wrestlers or moments where they got over because of an injury But I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on channel row to 150k and I am still You're undisputed youtube wrestling champ of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking with me