AEW’s Mark Briscoe ‘feeling great’ after knee surgery
AEW’s Mark Briscoe ‘feeling great’ after knee surgery in todays Wrestling news
Briscoe spoke to Sports Illustrated recently.
Mark Briscoe says he’s feeling great ahead of his match against Jay White on AEW Dynamite.
Briscoe returned to the ring on Saturday at AEW Collision. It was his first match since having knee surgery in July. He recently told that he had been dealing with the injury for five years.
“I was changing one of our baby’s diapers, and that knee went out on me,” said Briscoe. “The pain was so sharp, it dropped me.”
“This has been ongoing since 2018,” he continued. “Me and my brother were going over for the CMLL Grand Prix. We’d gone over the previous year, and this was the second year in a row we were going. Before we left, I remember a match against Jay Lethal, it may have been a six-man, and I tweaked it.”
“I didn’t make it to the CMLL Grand Prix, but I was back within about a month–I got a cortisone and a knee brace, and I kept rolling,” Briscoe added. “This June, I had the Concession Stand Match with Jarrett, and it was about the time they announced it was me vs. Claudio at the summer pay-per-view.”
“I get home, had the sharp pain when I was changing the diaper, and then that started happening multiple times a day and my knee kept locking up.”
Briscoe would eventually be diagnosed with a torn MCL, torn PCL, and torn meniscus. He was pulled from his scheduled match with Claudio Castagnoli at ROH Death Before Dishonor. Castagnoli ended up successfully defending his title against PAC on the show.
“I apologized to Tony Khan, but he wasn’t mad,” Briscoe said. “Tony hooked me up with the Jaguars’ team doctor. I had arthroscopic knee surgery to clean it up, and that’s when they found a floating piece of cartilage that was causing the problem. Now I’m feeling great.”
Mark’s brother Jay was killed in a car accident on January 17, 2023. He says there are reminders of him everywhere, especially when he drives to the airport alone after having always done so with his brother.
“There are reminders of him everywhere, but it’s the random ones that hit me hardest,” said Briscoe. “You know what’s been the toughest? The drive to the airport.”
“At first I didn’t think about it,” he continued. “Then 45 minutes into the drive, I’d be balling.”
“I’m getting used to it. It’s like our new normal. But when something catches me off guard, that’s when it hits me.”
“It feels like he’s still with us in spirit and in our hearts,” Briscoe added. “We’ve all bonded together. In a strange way, tragedy comes with beauty. I pick up his kids for school every morning. When we’re all together, it makes my heart feel so good.”
Briscoe and his wife also recently found out they are expecting their eighth child.
“That’s right, we have baby number eight on the way,” said Briscoe. “It’s almost a whole baseball team.”
“For the first seven, it was like a World Series that went down to Game 7,” he continued. “It went girl, girl, girl, and I thought it was going to be a four-game sweep. Then we had boy, boy, boy. So it came down to a Game 7, and it was a boy. The boys took it. My wife is amazing. We have a gaggle of kids.”
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