Real Life Injuries by the Numbers
New Year’s Revolution (2005) – Wikipedia
The first match to take place on the main card was a tag team match, where Christian and Tomko challenged William Regal and Eugene for the World Tag Team Titles.
The match had a notable botch early on when Tomko legitimately clotheslined William Regal in the face, busting his nose open, causing him to lose a lot of blood. As the ending neared, Eugene got the hot tag, but hurt himself performing a dropkick.
![Eugene (legitimately) injured himself at New Year's Revolution, in a match with Christian and Tomko, after botching a dropkick. He suffered a ruptured left patellar ligament, which required surgery and sidelined him for several months.[1] This also cost him the World Tag Team Championship, which Regal lost when forced to defend, teamed with Jonathan Coachman as a substitute.](https://gematrinator.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/EugeneInjury-600x122.png)
Although you couldn’t really tell exactly what happened, it seemed quite apparent the injury wasn’t being faked. The ending looked very sloppy, improvised, and Eugene legitimately looked to be in a tremendous amount of pain.
In the very next match was for the Women’s Championship, where the champion Lita squared off against Trish Stratus.
![However, Lita's title reign that was supposed to gain more momentum and length came to a short end almost a month later when Stratus defeated Lita on January 9, 2005, at New Year's Revolution.[37] In the course of the match, Lita tore her left ACL after executing a Thesz press off the ring apron, which left her unable to properly continue the match and led to a rushed finish.](https://gematrinator.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/LitaACL-600x126.png)
What do you know? Back-to-back knee injuries to start the pay-per-view. This time, you could tell for certain the injury was real just by seeing it. Something must have been in the air.
Lita was 3 months, 5 days before her birthday when she tore her knee:
She’s almost exactly 35 weeks older than Eugene
Lita tore her ACL, and Eugene ruptured a patellar ligament.
The date was January 9th, written 1/09
“Ruptured patellar ligament” = 109 (R)
Both were 29 years old on the date of the event
“Torn ACL” = 29 (R)
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And to cap it all off:
