Austin Theory has revealed the medical issue that kept him out of WWE for several months, and the details paint a picture far more serious than fans realized at the time.
Speaking on The Mark Hoke Show Pro Wrestling Show, the WWE World Tag Team Champion explained that he had been wrestling with a hernia for an extended period and had to manually reposition it after matches to continue competing. The situation reached a breaking point following a Main Event taping in July 2025 when the hernia would not go back in, forcing him to go straight to the emergency room still in his ring gear.
"I was actually wrestling with a hernia for a very long time, and as gross as it is, I was having to pop it back in after certain matches," Theory said. "I had a match on Main Event, and it would not go back in. So that night, I went to the emergency room, and it blew my mind because I was like, wow, I just had my gear on, and I went out there and I wrestled and now I'm in the E.R."
The injury alone would have been enough to deal with, but Theory revealed that his WWE contract was also coming up for renewal at the same time, piling uncertainty on top of a medical crisis and creating what he described as one of the lowest points of his career.
"My contract was actually coming up so, a lot of things were hitting me personally and that's kind of one of those things, that's a low point in your life where you get really rocked," Theory said. "Those points, you either stay down or you pick yourself up and you become a version of yourself that's always been in you but it takes you to that next level."
