Kit Wilson Explains How Elton Prince Suffered His Neck Injury

WWE Superstar Kit Wilson joined Insight With Chris Van Vliet, where he discussed his Pretty Deadly tag team partner, Elton Prince, who is currently sidelined with a neck injury that required him to undergo neck fusion surgery earlier this month. Below are some highlights from Insight:

Kit Wilson on Elton Prince Undergoing Neck Fusion Surgery at 28 Years Old

“Yeah, he’s got a double. At 28 years old.”

On the Spot That Caused His Injury

“He took a reverse DDT, and I think I was in it as well. I think it was maybe a reverse DDT and a flatliner. I think he just, it was obviously an accident. Things happen. We know what we’re getting into, but I think he just landed wrong, and he says he felt a certain kind of shock, and then he didn’t feel anything. Yeah, it happened, and then it’s crazy, because you watch it back, and his fingers kind of curl up, and it’s really a bit horrible to re-watch, knowing what it was. He got injured. He got hurt. It was a reverse DDT, and then when he’s trying to figure out in the ring what’s going on, he took that, he took another thing, which cut him open. So he’s bleeding a fair amount. I think initially, everyone, including myself and other people, thought that was a big injury, because it was a lot of blood. I remember I was on the floor, and he makes his way to the corner, and I’m kind of looking up at him, thinking, something’s up. Obviously, I didn’t know how serious it was, so I’m kind of starting to shout at him and say things. I can’t remember what he was saying, but he was kind of saying, like, ‘I’m fine, I’m good, I’m good, I’m good.’ I think they maybe make their way to the top rope. I get on the apron, and again, I’m kind of just assessing. Then I just realized, all right, I’m getting in. I kind of tag in. I think, like hesitantly again, I’m kind of still slowly walking in, trying to figure out what happens. Then there’s at some point in there, I’m just screaming, get down. Get down. Get down. Because we were in a position, I think I was going to electric chair him. And I’d assume we would have gone for our old independent finish, which I used to have. He used to jump off and do a European uppercut. The OG spilt milk. Then I just realized something was up. So I just said, ‘Get down. Get that. Get down. Get down.’ And then I just, I think I power bombed Nathan Frazer at the time, and then he was out for the whole for the rest of the match. I remember the doctors were with him, and I think I was in there for maybe like a minute and a half or more, kind of just trying to survive. And then just the next. The next few days were kind of trying to figure out what it was. And then we had some phone calls. It was this, and it was that, and it was tears, and he’s going through it is his thing. It’s his, is his challenges, his battle. He’s doing great, but it’s such a hard thing. It was just so horrible to see him go through it, especially because I love him so much. Elton, I love you.”

On How WWE Decided To Have Him Go Singles

“I don’t know if it was so definite, but again, it was just trying to figure out what we had, or what was there. I think slowly it went from okay, we’ll try something to okay, this could be something to things clicking. And with the help of a lot of the producers, Road Dogg, a lot of guys giving advice, I think there was some kind of point where people clocked on backstage and okay, we’ll see how this goes. Then this music hit, I think we’ve got something.”

On How He Personifies How Wins Don’t Matter

“Well, look, we’ll win the championship matches. It just doesn’t really matter about the other ones. So we were just focused on the gold. We’re yet to do that on SmackDown, and we will get there. But, yeah, we win when it matters. You’re always going to lose, you’re always going to fail, and I think you’re a positive, motivational guy; the failures are just lessons for the future. So anytime you know, I’m going to be at Smackdown the next week, I’m going to be at NXT the next week. So if we lose this farm, we’ll just move on. We’ll just improve. So yeah, I mean, shout out to maybe The Miz, another guy who proves time after time again, you can take a loss, you can move on. It doesn’t matter; you can make the most of it. I think that’s maybe a category that we sat in, and maybe I sit in now. I’m just going to take the wins when they’re big, you know, I’m going to wait for the opportunity.”