Arn Anderson and Conrad Thompson recently sat down to review the 2015 Elimination Chamber, and the former producer recalled some behind the scenes goings on from the time. Among them was the injury which led to Tyson Kidd's wrestling career coming to an end.
As you may recall, that happened during a dark match when Kidd took a bad bump after being on the receiving end of Samoa Joe's Muscle Buster (a move we haven't really seen much of in the years which have followed).
"Not only am I a friend and a fan of Tyson, I’m a fan and a friend of Nattie. The word we got was, it was a dark match before the show started," Anderson explained. "Vince wanted to see Joe work because he heard all about him. They put together something really quick. They had TJ put his boots on. I don’t think he had time to warm up. The guys didn’t have time to talk. It was a 5-minute deal. Something accidental happened, not to say anything one way or the other caused it. It was an accident. There is no other way to put it. Accidents happen in our business."
"That day his career was taken away as a talent. It was one of those mistakes that happened. A guy lands wrong and he’s changed forever. Necks were not made for this business. Your neck controls so many other bodily functions. It can run down your leg. It can run down your arm. When you tear your neck up, it has ramifications all over your body. That’s what happened that night and it was a loss to the wrestling business for damn sure."
Kidd works as a producer in WWE these days, and has always chosen his words carefully when it comes to his injury. Hearing Anderson's take is definitely interesting, though, and it confirms that it was an unavoidable accident which was no one's fault.