Kevin Owens also detailed in the podcast the painful symptoms he has had recently, which he didn’t experience earlier.

“Since then, I felt fine, my neck’s been fine. I’m not in pain, I have no really any symptoms of what you would expect somebody with a spinal cord injury to have,” said Owens. “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 brutal. I can’t wait for the surgery and then to move forward, whatever that looks like.”

Owens recounted an incident during a match when his legs went numb, leading him to believe something was wrong with his body. Doctors initially suspected another part of the body as the source of the problem, but tests eventually confirmed that the issue stemmed from his neck.

“So we had two incidents where basically in the ring, my legs kind of fell asleep and I was like, ‘There’s something wrong.’ We thought it was one thing, which is why we didn’t go right away for the neck, because it wasn’t consistent with a neck injury. Looked at everything else, and we figured out it’s not that. Let’s go, let’s take a look at the neck. And then it was that.”

Rhodes confirmed that he, too, felt that Owens had some issue during their match at the Royal Rumble, as he sensed that his legs weren’t working as they usually do.