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Zoey Stark Shares Injury Update, Jonathan Coachman Believes The Rock Screwed WrestleMania 41
Zoey Stark has shared a new update on her knee injury following recent surgery. As we previously reported here on eWn, the WWE star suffered the injury during a match on the May 19th episode of RAW. A few days later, she confirmed she’d be “out for a while.” In a video posted to Twitter […]
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Zoey Stark has shared a new update on her knee injury following recent surgery. As we previously reported here on eWn, the WWE star suffered the injury during a match on the May 19th episode of RAW. A few days later, she confirmed she’d be “out for a while.”
In a video posted to Twitter on Monday, Stark is seen at Rothman Orthopaedics just eight days after the injury. She reveals that the damage involved her MCL, ACL, and meniscus. While the surgery was originally expected to take two hours, it ultimately lasted three and a half.
On behalf of everyone here on eWn, we send our best wishes to Stark on a quick and full recovery.
The body achieves what the mind believes#wwe #wweraw #RawOnNetflix pic.twitter.com/Aap8ER46tO
— Zoey Stark (@ZoeyStarkWWE) June 9, 2025
Jonathan Coachman believes The Rock’s absence from WrestleMania 41 negatively impacted both the storyline and the overall event.
During a recent appearance on the “Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling” podcast, the former WWE announcer discussed how the Final Boss not showing up at the pay-per-view event — which saw John Cena defeat Cody Rhodes to become the Undisputed WWE Champion — was a missed opportunity that affected the show’s momentum.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On The Rock not showing up for the show: “He knew by not showing up that all anybody would talk about was him not showing up. And then what happened? The 13 other matches, two nights of WrestleMania, nobody talked about any of them. You watch any of the recaps, any of the shows, nothing. And that to me was a real disservice to the talent that got onto the shows. He sucked the entire oxygen out of that entire event by simply not showing up and then two days later giving us that excuse for not showing up.”
On the notion that Rock’s character work in the story is done: “When you’re doing a wrestling angle, you start it and you finish it. But when he said, ‘Oh, I called Cody and I called John afterwards and said, I think the final boss’s job is done.’ Remember when he said that on McAfee? ‘I think my job is done.’ All you’ve done is this [throat slash gesture].”
On what he would have had happen in the storyline: “So, I would have let [Cena] win as a babyface and go crazy, and the crowd would have gone bananas. And then you spend this summer, he can sell his soul the next night. You could have brought Rock out.”
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