Breaking Down the Impact: R-Truth’s Injuries and Infection Fallout

R-Truth is on his latest great run working with The Judgment Day on Raw.

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Their storyline’s not only been entertaining TV that’s led to bestselling merchandise.

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It’s again reminding wrestling fans what a treasure Truth is?

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Turns out, we should also be grateful to have 52 year old Ron Killings back at all.

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Before his return last November, we knew Truth had been out for more than a year recovering from a torn quad,

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And that he’d dealt with some post-surgical infections

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That extended his time on the sidelines.

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What we didn’t know was that those infections almost cost him his career — and his leg.

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He went to get stitches and found that the bacteria, the infection was eating from inside

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So that’s where the hole came from.

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