Sol Ruca Undergoes Surgery

Injuries are going to happen in any athletic performance, and that includes pro wrestling. It’s very rare, if not impossible, for someone to get through a long career without being hurt in the ring.

Sol Ruca underwent surgery on Tuesday after WWE wrote off the NXT star during last Tuesday’s NXT Spring Breakin’ episode that featured a segment where the NXT Anonymous Twitter account filmed a sneak attack on Ruca and posted it to the social media platform, which later aired on the NXT broadcast.

The attack happened as Ruca was leaving the WWE Performance Center. Ruca’s friend Dani Palmer came to her aid and checked on her before being told to call for help.

Ruca is the latest NXT star to get attacked as she follows Wendy Choo and Nikkita Lyons. These types of angles are done to write talent off television due to injury. Sure enough, it was reported by F4Wonline’s Dave Meltzer that Ruca was legitimately suffering from a torn ACL. Thus, the reason why they wrote her out of the storylines with the sneak attack angle.

Ruca took to Instagram today to share a video of herself on the beach, showing that she can move around just fine while she is injured. She captioned

She commented in the video, “No ACL, no problem!” before captioning the post with, “Who needs an acl anyways… jk I do, surgery day baby let’s go.”

Leading up to Tuesday, Ruca noted on the social media platform that she was training in the gym while injured as she recently posted gym photos on Saturday and wrote, “Every day better baby.”

It’s still unclear exactly how or when Ruca suffered the torn ACL. Her last match happened on April 14 at an NXT live event from Largo, FL, where she and Dani Palmer defeated Jakara Jackson and Lash Legend in a tag team match.

As of this writing, there’s no word yet on a timeframe for Ruca’s return to the ring, although the typical timetable is for up to around 6-9 months.

WWE officials have been high up on Ruca and her in-ring work since signing her in March 2022 out of the University of Oregon, where she competed on the Acrobatics & Tumbling team.