Mark Briscoe details his road to recovery.
Speaking with Sports Illustrated, Mark Briscoe looked back on missing nearly five months with an injury and noted that his knee went out on him while he was changing a diaper. He went on to decribe how he had been dealing with the knee injury since 2018.
“This has been ongoing since 2018. Me and my brother were going over for the CMLL Grand Prix. We’d gone over the previous year, and this was the second year in a row we were going. Before we left, I remember a match against Jay Lethal, it may have been a six-man, and I tweaked it," Briscoe said.
Briscoe went on to learn that he had suffered a torn MCL, a torn PCL, and torn meniscus. He stated that he returned to the ring in about a month, and he kept wrestling. However, it all came to a head in June 2023, as his knee started bothering him consistently.
"This June, I had the Concession Stand Match with Jarrett, and it was about the time they announced it was me vs. Claudio at the summer pay-per-view. I get home, had the sharp pain when I was changing the diaper, and then that started happening multiple times a day and my knee kept locking up," he said.
Mark then detailed how he apologized to Tony Khan, who connected him with the Jacksonville Jaguars' team doctor. He stated that he is feeling great a few months removed from arthoscopic knee surgery, and he is excited to wrestle again.
“I apologized to Tony Khan, but he wasn’t mad. Tony hooked me up with the Jaguars’ team doctor. I had arthroscopic knee surgery to clean it up, and that’s when they found a floating piece of cartilage that was causing the problem. Now I’m feeling great. I’m excited to get back in that ring. I’ve been waiting to scratch this itch ever since I went out with the knee. I’ve been waiting, and I don’t particularly handle all that free time too well," Briscoe said.
Briscoe also expressed his excitement ahead of his match with Jay White on the November 8 episode of AEW Dynamite and recalled how a singles program with Jay Briscoe elevated White to a new level earlier in his career. It's only fitting that Mark will continue to honor his late brother's legacy by stepping into the ring with White on AEW Dynamite.
Mark returned to the ring on the November 4 episode of AEW Collision, where he teamed up with Dustin Rhodes and Keith Lee to face Kip Sabian and The WorkHorsemen (JD Drake and Anthony Henry). His match against White will be his first singles bout since the June 21, 2023, episode of AEW Dynamite.
Fightful will have live coverage of AEW Dynamite as it airs on November 8.
