At last month's MLW Fightland Event, MLW World Heavyweight Champion Hammerstone suffered an injury in his ankle during the Title vs. Title Matchup against Jacob Fatu. Hammerstone recently appeared on the Wrestling Epicenter Radio Show and provided an update on his injury. According to Hammerstone, he got lucky that even though he broke his ankle and got a bad sprain as well as some tearing in some of his ligaments and tendons, which put him out of action for a while, he is back competing.
Hammerstone said:
“I lucked out! Nothing broke!” “It was my ankle. It was a very bad sprain, I had some tearing in some of the ligaments and tendons. But, I’m back wrestling. It put me down for a while.”
“But, I’m being smart. Ankle injuries have a tendency to linger on. So, every time I wrestle, I’m going to be having a brace on for the foreseeable to help prevent re-injuring this ankle.”
Hammerstone then talked about how this was definitely one of the toughest challenges he's ever had in wrestling and he wishes he had gotten through it without suffering the injury, but he was still happy with how the match turned out.
Hammerstone said:
“I can say it was definitely one of the toughest challenges I’ve ever had in wrestling.” “I wish I had gotten through it without suffering the injury. That is to be expected when you face someone like Jacob Fatu. I was satisfied with the match. Seeing the road that I went down to get there and having it pay off in such a grand fashion was awesome!”
You can check out Hammerstone's full comments in the video below:
