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Big E gets new WWE role on recruitment team at SummerSlam during recovery from broken neck-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro
The New Day star will be in Nashville!
Former WWE Champion Big E will be in Nashville for SummerSlam (Picture: WWE)
WWE superstar Big E will be at SummerSlam later this month – albeit in a different role.
The former WWE Champion – who suffered a broken neck in March when a suplex from Ridge Holland went wrong – is on a long road to recovery from the horror injury, but he’ll be back in the fold in Nashville as part of the recruitment team.
At the huge event, WWE will be holding a tryout for current and recently graduated college athletes looking to move into pro wrestling.
It’s a route E – who played college football at Iowa – took, and he’ll be working alongside the likes of James Kimball and Paul ‘Triple H’ Levesque over SummerSlam weekend.
They team will be evaluating potential future WWE superstars, with more than 50 athletes with backgrounds in basketball, American football, amateur wrestling, gymnastics, cheer and more set to take part from July 27 to 29.
There was a similar tryout during WrestleMania in Dallas earlier this year with more than 20 athletes being signed to developmental deals, and Big E wishes there had been these kinds of opportunities when he was playing college football.
He told ESPN: ‘I wish there was an exit program for college athletes, because you spend so much of your time on campus studying for your sport or participating for your sport or practicing for your sport.
‘You devote so much of your life to it, and then when it’s gone, it is such a distinct drop-off. It’s so hard to prepare for that. That was something that was really hard for me mentally too.’
The New Day star is expected to make a full recovery from the injury, although he faces a long wait to find out if he’ll be able to wrestle again.
Just last week, he revealed he will need more scans in March 2023 – the one year mark – while he confirmed to ESPN that he will get his neck evaluated at the six and nine month marks.
Taking to Twitter, he recently wrote: ‘Update! My C1 isn’t ossifying (forming bone) quite yet. The current plan is to get more scans at the one year mark & see how it’s progressing. The great news is I feel tremendous & surgery is off the table.’
WWE SummerSlam airs July 30 at 1am on the WWE Network.
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