WWE’s Roman Reigns has emergency surgery, out of ‘Night of Champions’

WWE star Roman Reigns, who was scheduled to take part in Sunday’s “Night of Champions” pay-per-view event, had to be taken in for emergency surgery Saturday for an incarcerated hernia.

WWE physician Chris Amann released a statement Sunday, saying:

“I was in contact with both Roman and the surgeon who performed the operation in Nashville [Saturday]. Roman had developed acute abdominal pain in his hotel room [Friday] night after his match. This wasn’t related to a specific injury that occurred in the ring. Roman has had a pre-existing hernia for some time, which unfortunately had become acutely painful, which led to him going to the emergency room in Nashville. He was found to have a large hernia that was unable to be reduced, which means pushed back into the abdominal cavity. As a result, it was necessary to perform an emergent operation to open up the hernia sac and try and push it back into the abdominal cavity.”

“At the time of the surgery, surgeons found a loop of small intestine was caught in the hernia sac, which would account for the pain and discomfort that Roman was having earlier in the evening. The surgeons released the hernia sac so the intestine could be pushed back into the abdominal cavity. Once they were satisfied blood supply had returned to the intestine after releasing the hernia, they went ahead and completed the procedure. A mesh was placed over where the hernia had occurred to prevent future occurrences.”

Reigns is expected to be sidelined six weeks because of the surgery.

He was scheduled to face Seth Rollins at “Night of Champions” and no replacement match has been announced. Here’s guessing that Dean Ambrose makes his return at the event to either wrestle Rollins, or prevent him from cashing in his “Money in the Bank” briefcase after the John Cena-Brock Lesnar match.