Cesaro recently spoke with WWE.com about his shoulder injury that will leave him out of action for 4-6 months. Here are the highlights.

Cesaro, thank you for taking the time to speak with us. How are you feeling in lieu of the recent news?

Well, I’m feeling great. I’ve had the injury for over two months, but I guess I never really knew how … “bad” it was, if that’s the right word? [Laughs] So, it’s more a mental thing, because all of a sudden you can’t do what you’ve been doing. Now you have to get surgery and you’ll be out for a bit.

You said you’ve been working through the injury, not knowing how bad it was. Would you classify the situation as gradual?

I knew something was wrong [for a while], but I thought that it was just sprained or something like that. So, I iced it and had it looked at. I was like, “Oh, I have range of motion” and didn’t necessarily have too much of a loss of strength, so I knew something got hurt, but I didn’t think it was injured, if that makes sense. I kept working out and working [in the ring] obviously, and it kept getting better, but there was still something lingering. Then I thought, “Maybe if I were to know exactly what it is, it will be easier to rehab and get it better” … and then I found out it’s a complete tear. [Laughs] So, no matter how much rehab I do, it will not reattach itself to the bone, unfortunately.

But you went into that appointment having no idea of the injury’s extent?

Exactly. I got the MRI done and was like, “Okay, cool, this will help me with how to rehab and get back to full strength.” But then I got the call the next day saying, “Hey, you tore a tendon and partially tore another one.” [Laughs]

When is surgery scheduled?

Yeah, so here’s the good part: Thanks to the quickness of WWE, I went to see the doctor this morning and will have surgery this afternoon. The faster the better for me, because the sooner I have surgery, the sooner I’ll be back. Luckily, they got me in before Thanksgiving.

Do you have any timetable on when you may return, or is it too soon to say?

It’s pretty much up in the air, and I don’t want to be quoted on a timeframe. I think the official timeframe I was told was like four to six months, but that all depends on how surgery goes, how my rehab goes and so forth.

WHOLE INTERVIEW: http://www.wwe.com/inside/cesaro-injured-interview

Cesaro's out.
Daniel Bryan's out.
Randy Orton's out.
Seth Rollins' out.
Tyson Kidd's out.
Hideo Itami's out.
Sami Zayn's out.

When all these people return it's gonna be B-I-G.