Samoa Joe has opened up on the famous dropkick he delivered to Sting back in their TNA days, and the resulting injury that apparently never happened. Joe was recently released by WWE earlier this month and it remains to be seen where he will end up next.
In the meantime, though, the former WWE superstar has taken to social media to clear something up. Joe and Sting went head-to-head at TNA Bound for Glory in 2008, with Sting beating him for the World Heavyweight Title in the PPV's main event. During the match, Joe took the veteran into the crowd and then up a long flight of stairs before going for a risky running drop-kick.
It was a pretty unbelievable moment and he could have been seriously injured had the slightest thing gone wrong. It was later rumored that he'd broken his tailbone and come close to suffering a number of other major injuries.
It's said that Joe has never been the same since then, with the "injury" blamed for impacting his career. However, he debunked it via social media this week after a fan asked him to clear it up, linking some research done by another fan who claimed Joe was never actually injured.
“Nope, in fact I didn’t miss a day of work," he wrote. "I have refrained commenting on this because I have enjoyed how the legend grew over the years & it been somewhat of a social experiment for me watching it manifest as such a absolute truth. Person did his homework. Myth busted."
He explained that the move was never supposed to have taken place and was instructed off of an audible due to the way the crowd was behaving.
“Also it was never suppose to be what it was in the chaos of the crowd Sting was moved down the steps and what was supposed to be a cool slightly dangerous flying forearm had to be audibled into that mid air much to my surprise,” he added.
Let Them Keep On Believing
Joe said he never cared to debunk the myth and actually used it as a social experiment, claiming he'd just agree with wrestlers who came up to him and stated it forced him to change his style.
“The social experiment started when wrestlers I would meet would bring it up to me as a fact some even saying that ‘Man that changed your style up huh’ which I would agree with, then internally shake my head at how easily rumor becomes fact,” he continued.
“In fact in this media environment I stopped trying to debunk things said about me because in the battle of “truth” vs “narrative”, narrative will always find a way to justify why truth is wrong. Also it makes it easier for me to sus out who is full of it. Just to clarify if you where a colleague who ASKED me about it I told the truth, even some fans I met a autograph signings BUT if you stated it to me as fact, I let you believe what you want. Mainly because you didn’t have the common courtesy to even see if it was true.”