5 Wrestling Careers Cut Short by Neck Injury

Sting suffered an apparent neck injury at Night of Champions.Wrestling icon Sting injured his neck during a WWE World Heavyweight Championship match against Seth Rollins at Night of Champions, and that has put his future in the ring in question.While “The Stinger" has certainly had a lengthy career to this point and was far from his prime at the time of injury, others haven’t been so lucky. Here are a few wrestlers who had their time in the spotlight cut short, at least to some extent, by the dreaded neck injury.

#1 Droz

Droz was paralyzed in 1999.

The most dramatic entry on this list is Droz. During a match with D’Lo Brown in 1999, Droz took a nasty bump after a powerbomb that left him paralyzed at the age of 30.

Since then, he’s recovered some feeling and movement in his upper extremities, but he remains in a wheelchair. Droz never blamed D’Lo for the gaffe, but the damage had clearly been done to his neck.

This was unfortunate because, in addition to the tragedy of his paralysis, the accident ended what could have been a promising career for the former professional football player.