El Hijo del Vikingo suffers potential knee injury
El Hijo del Vikingo may have been injured last night.
Mas Lucha is reporting that Vikingo’s match at Arena López Mateos on Saturday was stopped early after the AAA Mega Champion came down awkwardly on his right knee. He was assessed at the building and there was said to be concern he may have ruptured a tendon.
The injury was addressed by our own Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, who noted it’s a meniscus injury that will likely require surgery.
Meltzer said:
El Hijo del Vikingo injured his right knee in a match tonight, and it’s a meniscus injury as far as we know. I just got the word of a meniscus injury, that he might need surgery.
The knee was already bad. And he was probably going to need surgery at some point soon, and this may speed that up and he could be out for a pretty long length of time.
Mas Lucha says Hijo del VIkingo suffered a right knee injury in his match tonight, and it may be a serious one. https://t.co/cbw9UQx4l4
— luchablog (@luchablog) February 18, 2024
Footage of the injury was posted to YouTube by La Tijera Lucha Libre.
Vikingo has wrestled just twice on AEW programming so far in 2024. He wrestled in a four-way match won by Trent Beretta on the January 3 Dynamite and another four-way won by Komander on the January 24 Rampage taping.
Vikingo has wrestled under the ROH banner twice this year as well. He successfully defended the Mega Championship against Action Andretti at the January 10 taping and then teamed with Penta El Zero Miedo in a win against Jon Cruz and KM at the January 31 taping.
