{"id":160340,"date":"2023-06-13T11:05:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=160340"},"modified":"2023-06-13T11:05:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:05:02","slug":"kofi-kingston-gives-update-on-return-to-wwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/13\/kofi-kingston-gives-update-on-return-to-wwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Kingston gives update on return to WWE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3353761574\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Kofi Kingston says his life is grand and that he&#8217;s working his way back into the fold after having surgery on an injured ankle. Kingston spoke on the Battleground podcast and talked about his ankle rehab and when fans may see him in the ring once again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m actually in Orlando right now doing some rehab on my ankle,&#8221; Kingston said. &#8220;I had ankle surgery to remove a bone chip and fix some ligaments after the massive, Scottish behemoth of a man, Drew McIntyre, landed on my leg and my body went east and my leg went west and my ankle was completely sprained but they took out some bone chips and fixed the ligament and now, I\u2019m on the mend, you know? Somewhere in between a robot and a zombie. Somewhere in between. I\u2019m working my way back into the fold so, it\u2019s all good, life is grand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m doing really well. I actually had this same surgery on the same ankle about six years ago to have bone chips removed so I feel like this time around, I kind of know what to expect and I\u2019ve been kind of ahead of schedule for the most part and I\u2019m really able to do a lot of normal people things and live normal life. So now it\u2019s just a matter of trying to go to the next level and do WWE superstar things, you know what I mean? In-ring, things like that.&#8221; (h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postwrestling.com\/2023\/06\/13\/kofi-kingston-provides-update-on-recovery-from-ankle-surgery-states-that-hes-ahead-of-schedule\/\">Post Wrestling<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Kofi Kingston is a former tag team champion and world champion in WWE. He&#8217;s been away from the company since February.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>CATCH-UP:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/12\/seth-rollins-issues-championship-open-challenge-for-next-weeks-raw\/\">Seth Rollins issues championship open challenge for next week\u2019s Raw<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-66551403\"><div id=\"pwtor-1400619144\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Kofi Kingston says his life is grand and that he&#8217;s working his way back into the fold after having surgery on an injured ankle. Kingston spoke on the Battleground podcast and talked about his ankle <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2023\/06\/13\/kofi-kingston-gives-update-on-return-to-wwe\/\" title=\"Kofi Kingston gives update on return to WWE\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5294,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[568,71],"class_list":["post-160340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe","tag-kofi-kingston","tag-wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/KofiKingston_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160341,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160340\/revisions\/160341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}