Ryan Allan
Monday, 05 March 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

Since moving onto a proper ACL recovery program, I have been at the gym a lot more frequently. As I need to constantly improve my leg strength to regain full functionality, I need to keep up with my rehab exercises. This has resulted in me going all 7 days most weeks, working on my legs
Ryan Allan
Monday, 26 February 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

The physiotherapist at the hospital advised me to start using an exercise bike to keep my knee moving. Willing to do whatever it took to be back at one hundred percent, I wanted to get straight onto this. However, I would’ve been best waiting for my knee to heal a little more, and you can
Monday, 19 February 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

I had my second surgery in mid-September. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all; feeling sickly and unable for even longer was the last thing I wanted. But given the major work to repair my knee was already performed, my second hospital stay was nowhere near as bad. After I woke from surgery, the
Monday, 29 January 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

I checked in with my surgeon, who was very happy with both the strength and the stability of my knee. Hearing how pleased he was gave me quite a lot of confidence; the surgery had undeniably gone accordingly, and now I just had to work hard at rehabbing. I found myself getting slowly and slowly
Tuesday, 23 January 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

Returning to the gym was something I was incredibly excited about. I tried to continue my workouts as much as I could after my injury, but it was particularly difficult after coming out of surgery. With a severely weakened left leg, basing for many upper body exercises was tough. Mentally, I believe I made it
Tuesday, 16 January 2018 / Published in Feature, News

Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan Part 3

I was really looking forward to EPW’s gig at Supanova this year, and I was originally set to wrestle at the event. And although I was reasonably fresh out of surgery, I still wanted to be there. This was difficult with our limited door spots, and I couldn’t assist EPW in any way in the
Tuesday, 09 January 2018 / Published in Feature, News

The Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan Part 2

It didn’t take me long to get booked in for knee surgery. After the injury, the thing I was dreading was waiting ages for the operation. But it was only a few days after Evolution that I went under the knife. The morning of the surgery was an awakening as to just how bad my
Tuesday, 02 January 2018 / Published in Feature, News

The Road to Recovery – Ryan Allan

Injuries happen in professional wrestling, and I am no stranger to getting hurt. Throughout my career, I’ve been heavily concussed, cracked my scapula and I have permanent tissue damage to my left leg. In late 2014, I fractured the c5 and c6 vertebrae in my neck, which kept me out of action for an entire