Add as a preferred source on Google Dragon Lee is trying to avoid surgery after suffering a torn collateral ligament in his thumb during the July 20 episode of WWE Raw.
Lee was injured teaming with Je’Von Evans against World Tag Team Champions Bron Breakker and Austin Theory. Lee took the pin after taking a Spear from Breakker, but said he does not know exactly when the injury occurred.
Initial X-rays came back clean. However, an MRI confirmed the injury, and WWE’s medical team did not clear Lee to travel to Aguascalientes, Mexico, where he was scheduled to compete at AAA Verano de Escándalo.
Despite being sidelined, Lee remained on the road during SummerSlam weekend in Minneapolis.
During an appearance on NotSam Wrestling, Lee wore a brace on his hand and said he does not want to undergo surgery because it would keep him out of action for three to four months:
“My last match. That was on TV… When I came back to my locker room, my finger was swollen, and I couldn’t move and I was like, ‘I don’t know what’s happened.’ It’s happened many times in wrestling. But the doctor, he touched me and he told me, ‘Can you move like this?’ ‘Yes.’ He touched me and, ‘Ah! It’s painful.’ I got an X-ray; it’s okay, and then MRI… I have a tear… Damn, I wanted to wrestle… I don’t know for how (much) time I’m gonna be out but, I don’t wanna get surgery… It’s gonna get surgery and I’m gonna stop for three, four months and I don’t want that. They told me with this one, maybe I probably will wrestle. It’s fine.”
He added, “Hopefully they let me wrestle.”
There is currently no official timetable for his return.