
How Chris Bey's life changed after one routine move went catastrophically wrong
Andreas Hale
created: July 30, 2025, 12:35 p.m. | updated: July 31, 2025, 3:54 p.m.
(1:33)Open Extended ReactionsLAS VEGAS -- It is a routine wrestling move Chris Bey has done a thousand times.
"Once I woke up [from surgery] and I realized that I couldn't feel anything, I no longer cared about wrestling," Bey said.
"Seeing him in that hospital bed really broke me," Bey's mother, who arrived at the hospital two days after the injury, told ESPN.
"I didn't know how, I didn't know why or what or when.
It is almost 20 years to the day since Bey's dad ordered him his first WrestleMania, WrestleMania 21, where Cena won his first world championship.
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