Report: Kevin Owens undergoes successful neck surgery

Kevin Owens has reportedly undergone surgery.

Fightful is reporting that Owens underwent successful neck surgery on Friday, July 18.

The former Universal Champion revealed on the April 4 edition of WWE SmackDown that he needed neck surgery and would miss WrestleMania 41. He later shared that the procedure would not take place until mid-July, as doctors wanted his neck to heal as much as possible beforehand.

Kevin Owens shares neck injury update on Cody Rhodes’ podcast

Last month, Owens was a guest on Cody Rhodes’ So What Do You Wanna Talk About? podcast and described his situation as a “frustrating process.”

“It’s been such a frustrating process,” Owens said. “We’re letting my spinal cord heal as much as we can on its own before we go in for the surgery because how extensive the surgery will be depends on how my spinal cord looks when we go in there.”

“We’re waiting till mid-July to do the surgery,” he later added. “Hopefully, it’s a normal neck fusion. It might not be, we don’t know.”

Owens said he hadn’t experienced any symptoms from the injury until mid-June, when they all hit him at once.

“In the last week, for some reason, the symptoms all came in one shot. Every symptom you’d expect me to have, the pain in the neck, the stuff going down the arms, the legs not really responding, it’s all been happening. So it’s been pretty f–king brutal. I can’t wait for the surgery. And then to move forward, whatever that looks like but it’s been very frustrating.”

 I can’t wait for the surgery. And then to move forward, whatever that looks like but it’s been very frustrating.”

Owens’ full appearance on So What Do You Wanna Talk About? is below: