Adriana Rizzo Explains How She Ended Up Fully Tearing Her ACL
Rizzo knew the risks of competing on the injured knee.
It was shared by WWE NXT talent Adriana Rizzo that she suffered a torn ACL. In her original post, Rizzo noted that she had been working on a partially torn ACL for a year and knew the risks that came with that.
She posted a video to TikTok and explained how the partial tear occurred and detailed how she ended up fully tearing her knee.
“How I tore my leg? How I tore my knee? What happened? Why did it happen? I’ve gotten a lot of people speculating, ‘Oh, you were doing this, you were doing that…’ First of all, none of your business. But I’m gonna tell you anyway. I’m gonna tell you anyway because I’m sick of hearing — I’m sick of this speculation so here’s what happened: I had a partial tear. Partial, not fully. Partial tear on my ACL. A year and a half ago, I was doing a throw over my head and somebody pushed my knee in, partially tore my ACL. Whatever. I’m fine. I worked through it for a year and a half. Yes, I knew there was a chance it was gonna fully tear, but I wasn’t about to sit out for a year and a half because I got, you know, a splinter on my ACL. I’m gonna get surgery when the whole kabang goes. So, I’m gonna go as long as I can until that happens. Yes, I knew it was a possibility. Yes, I made the decision. Yes, I’m still happy about my decision. So what happened was I was at practice, I was doing a drill, I’m running over to the corner and boom, my knee just, you know, bada bing, bada boom, explodes. I fall over, I lay on the floor for like four minutes because I knew. I knew my knee exploded and then I was like, well, sh*t, there it goes. There it goes. So, that’s the story of my knee. So everyone can stop making up their little fairytale rumors because that’s what happened. Alright, have a good day.”
Rizzo had been part of the now-disbanded D’Angelo Family with Tony D’Angelo, Channing ‘Stacks’ Lorenzo, and Luca Crusifino. The story of the D’Angelo Family as a unit came to an end via a Triple Threat match on the 7/15 NXT.
D’Angelo was last seen on NXT programming when he was approached by an unknown individual(s) at a dinner table before the screen went black.
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