AJ Styles got hurt during his match with Carmelo Hayes (Picture: WWE)
WWE superstar AJ Styles has revealed the extent of the brutal injury he suffered just minutes into his comeback match.
The Phenomenal One hobbled to the back after a nasty incident in his bout with Carmelo Hayes on SmackDown 10 days ago, but some fans believed it was simply part of a retirement storyline.
However, Styles replied to a follower on X after Monday Night Raw, and revealed: ‘It’s called a Lisfranc injury. Look it up, it sucks! I thought when I took off my boot. I would have a bone sticking out of my foot.’
The injury – which is named after French surgeon Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin – occurs if ‘bones in the midfoot are broken or ligaments that support the midfoot are torn’, while the severity can vary.
According to the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, ‘the overall recovery process for resuming all activities may take six months to one year in some patients’.
Some people can even suffer ‘persistent midfoot pain’ even after successful surgery, while the AAOS added: ‘Some athletic patients never return to their pre-injury levels of sport after these difficult injuries.’
Styles has opened up about the injury (Picture: X)
‘That’s the injury that ends running backs seasons and took cam newton out in 2016,’ a fan wrote on X, while the 47-year-old wrestler replied: ‘Bingo, as the kids say…. I’m cooked!’
The original follower who questioned the legitimacy of the injury apologised in another post, admitting for their ‘own selfish reasons’ they ‘didn’t want it to be true’.
Styles replied: ‘No worries, just thought I’d give an update.’
The Phenomenal One’s in-ring future remains unclear (Picture: WWE)
Before the return match on October 5, his last televised bout for WWE came in mid-June when he lost an I Quit match to WWE Champion Cody Rhodes at Clash At The Castle in Glasgow.
The innovative and influential wrestler still featured on the company’s live events over the past few months and even wrestled for NOAH in Japan over the summer, but it’d been a long time since fans saw him on SmackDown.
His in-ring future remains unclear, particularly after what could be a devastating setback.
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Styles has repeatedly insisted his current WWE contract is his final one, and he is looking ahead to retirement in the not-too-distant future after over two decades in the business.
‘I don’t want to do it anymore. And it’s not because – of course I want to wrestle,’ he exclusively told Metro.co.uk in Philadelphia over WrestleMania weekend earlier this year.
He added: ‘But my body, it’s like, “Please stop. Please stop.” I think this would be a good place to end my career, in the WWE.’
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