Maven reflects on an angle he ran with Tajiri after breaking his leg.
When Maven broke his leg in 2002, he was involved in a love triangle with Tajiri and Torrie Wilson. The storyline would eventually see Tajiri attack Maven after he had already broken his leg, slamming his injured leg in the door.
During the latest video on his YouTube channel, Maven pulled back the curtain on how this attack was orchestrated and the little hiccup that resulted in him receiving a small jolt of pain to his already injured leg.
"I would find myself in a love triangle storyline between myself, Tajiri, and Torrie Wilson, and during this storyline, I broke my leg for real," he said. "WWE, wanting to continue the storyline, would have me the following week in a hospital, a real hospital, as Torrie and I were advancing our relationship, Tajiri would make an unsurprised, unsolicited, and unwanted visit. [He'd] drag me out of bed, position my leg, my broken leg in a door jam, and violently slam it shut. But how did he do this without doing further damage to an already hurt leg? Well, it's actually a trick on your eyes. The trick would involve a little bit of mathematics, a lot of preparation and timing and execution by placing a sturdy, solid block in the jam of the door, measuring out how much room my leg needed, and just planning and shutting slowly over and over, we finally figured out the place where once the jury placed me on the floor, me selling, I had full trust that once he slammed the door, it was not going to hit my leg in any way. But that's where I would be wrong.
"When we practiced shutting the door, we never did it too hard," he recalled. "We put my leg where it needed to be. We measured up where the block needed to be at the top, and we just didn't take into account a little bit more force, a little bit more strength in the door slam. I'm not saying it hurt me any more, but by the door hitting me and pushing on my already broken leg, ever so slightly, it just sent a jolt through my body but did me no further damage. I mean, hell, I already had a broken leg. They weren't going to break it anymore."
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