Michael Elgin On His Wrestle Kingdom 11 Status, Orbital Injury Update, Succeeding In Japan

Podcast episode #223 of The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling features a current New Japan Pro Wrestling Star and former Ring of Honor World Champion, “Unbreakable” Michael Elgin. Still recovering from an orbital injury suffered earlier this year “Big Mike” gives Chad and John Poz an update on his status for WrestleKingdom 11 and if he has been cleared to return to action for NJPW. In this excerpt Elgin also discusses what it means to him personally to be considered a top star in New Japan and how he is now being compared to wrestlers that he looked up to as a fan. The full 60 minute interview is available for download at this link. Please also checkout Michael Elgin’s NEW wrestling promotion Glory Pro on Twitter @GloryPro2017.

Update on his broken orbital bone:

“The eye is great. What happened was they take bone from my hip and put it under my orbital because if you use the same bones there it can break easier, so if you put the bone from your hip in there it makes it a little more sturdy so if you take impact to the orbital again and it won’t break so easy. So they did that and to my understanding, I got home and you are supposed to wait three weeks to go to the gym (which I did wait) but my hip was still a little swollen and I just thought (since) there was a surgery that it is going to happen. I then worked out like two days and it just kept swelling more and more. I went into the hospital to have it checked and they were afraid I may have gotten a staph infection.”

“They checked if there was any bacteria or any staph infection and there …

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