SANADA reveals injury suffered during NJPW G1 Climax 33
SANADA didn’t come out of the G1 unscathed.
He posted to Instagram on Sunday revealing he was diagnosed with a “distal biceps tendon rupture” during the tournament.
It’s not clear when he suffered the injury but he started wrestling with his left arm bandaged up on August 5 against Chase Owens. It was his first match since August 1 against Gabriel Kidd.
A translation of SANADA’s post reads:
“Distal biceps tendon rupture” during G1.
I’m going to heal well during the off.
SANADA continued to wrestle on the tour even after his loss to EVIL in the quarterfinals. He wrestled multi-person tag matches on Saturday and Sunday’s shows.
SANADA went undefeated in the round robin portion of the G1 before losing on Thursday’s show. This likely sets up EVIL to challenge for SANADA’s IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in the near future. EVIL attacked the champion after House of Torture’s win over Just Five Guys on today’s show.
SANADA is not currently booked for next Sunday’s Impact x NJPW Multiverse United 2 but is advertised for Impact Emergence on August 27 in Toronto.
