I’ve been reading articles to try and figure out what’s up with Latin Lover. Google News Mexico has a ton of them, if you’d like to read them yourselves.
Latin suffered a complete right tricep tear, when dancing (maybe just rehearing) on a non-wrestling event. Surgery went fine, and his arm will be immobilized for 5-6 weeks while he recovers. He’s going to for sure take a week off to rest and recover, but is considering trying to make his (non-wrestling) appearances while still hurt.
This is the same type of injury WWE’s Batista recently suffered, though I don’t know how severity matches up (though ‘complete’ sounds pretty bad.) Early reports mistaken had it as an Achilles Tendon tear, which where the confusion came.
While this is a injury suffered outside of wrestling and one he should be able to return from, Latin Lover is considering retiring from wrestling. His family doesn’t want him to do it anymore, and he’s tired of wrestling related surgeries (he says this one was his 8th total) in general.
On a completely different note, they’ve added footage of the WWE in Mexico (probably the stuff they’re showing on TV) to the interview with Rey on WWE.com
Update: Meltzer is saying Latin has offically retired.
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