Miro Got Signed To WWE In Spite Of A Torn ACL Because ‘God Protected Him’

Miro talks about divine intervention.

Miro, who was known as Rusev in WWE, is very much a man of faith on AEW television. Now, he is recalling the time when divine intervention actually helped his career.

Speaking with Kurt Angle on the Kurt Angle Show, the former Rusev reveals that he actually had a torn ACL when he went to WWE but he managed to make it through a physical thanks to a doctor who was a tad bit more concerned with teaching his student rather than thoroughly checking on the knee of the Bulgarian Brute.

“I went to WWE developmental with a torn ACL. Yes, but they didn’t know that. Because once again, God, once again the man of their God, Jesus Christ protected me because I tore my ACL even before I went to developmental went to my tryout with a torn ACL. I just wrapped my knee with duct tape,” Miro recalled. “I tore it one time in practice, and I don’t have the money to fix it. I was just wrestling with a torn ACL, which I’m sure that you have done before. I got signed and you know they send you to these medical checks in Pittsburgh, Dr. Maroon, I know that and I go, and I, I lay down because I know they’re gonna come and check me. So I pray, I pray this entire time Jesus, Lord, our Father, Holy host the host. Please, please, please, please, that’d be okay. I already know that my ACL was torn,” said Miro.

Continuing on, he recalls when his knee finally gave out in training, and thankfully he was already under WWE’s watchful eye that helped him get the proper help he needed for his knee.

“I know that they’re returning people if [something goes] wrong. So the doctor comes in with a student. So that whole time the doctor’s kind of paying attention to the student and trying to explain things to him. He sits down, pulls on my knee. He says, ‘You’re okay. You’re good to go. I’m telling you man, if you don’t believe in God — God intervened directly. I can fulfill my dream. That’s exactly what happened. The doctor said I’m good I went and got signed. Then later on, in developmental, I was still duct-taping my knee and everything. In one match. My knee just gave out. I had somebody on my back, my knee gave out, and they called in the doctor to check me, said,’ You have torn ACL.’ I said, ‘Okay, let’s fix it,'” he concluded.

Elsewhere on the podcast, he recalls the love triangle with Lana and Bobby Lashley and how he says he was promised a WrestleMania main event out of that angle. Learn more here.

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