- An ex-WWE star was involved in a freak accident that meant he lost half his foot
- The retired wrestler won the world tag team titles during the Attitude Era
A WWE star from the Attitude Era has revealed he lost half his foot earlier this year in a freak accident while cooking.
The retired wrestler originally competed for World Championship Wrestling (WCW) from 1992 to 1994, before moving across to WWF (now WWE) in 1996.
He spent five years with the WWE using several different ring names during his time with the organisation.
Dennis Knight won the world tag team titles twice when competing as Phineus Godwin in the mid-1990s alongside partner Henry Godwinn. He also portrayed Mideon when he was part of The Undertaker’s faction known as The Ministry of Darkness that saw him feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin at one point.
Since leaving his wrestling days behind him, Knight has moved into the kitchen as a chef in Florida, but he has now opened up on how his new job led to him losing half his foot six months ago.
A WWE star from the Attitude Era has revealed he recently lost half his foot in a freak accident
‘I had to take a break (from being a chef). I got half my foot cut off about six months ago,’ Knight told AdFreeShows.com during a recent Q&A session.
‘There’s these things called speed racks. They’re like big squares, and they have shelves, and you wheel the food around. There could be hundreds and hundreds of pounds when they’re fully loaded. One of them fell off of a broken back deck and landed on my foot and because of the fractures in my spine, I can’t, and this is crazy, I can’t feel from my knees down.
‘So like, when I was cooking a lot, I wore a hole in the bottom of my big toe, like, to the bone, and it got infected, and yeah, I didn’t even feel it.
‘This thing fell on my foot, and it was like, oh, it just felt kind of like a little swollen, but that was it, but I really couldn’t feel anything. So then I go home and I take my shoe off and I put my sock off and two of my toes are just hanging off there and one of them was in the sock and I didn’t know. This was like an hour later.
‘So I went right to the hospital. I was there for like five days getting antibiotics and then they took off, yeah, I have no toes on my right foot. I have size 15 foot, but my right foot is like an 11 now.
‘It’s just like where all your toes start. They just clipped them off so it’s like a big slipper. Yeah, and I can’t feel it at all, which is weird. I started working and then I was going to the gym a lot and I wore a hole on the bottom of my foot without knowing it.
‘Like, I got sore and when that happens, I had to stop and make sure because it causes an infection.’
Cooking may seem like a safer pastime than wrestling, but that doesn’t appear to have been the case on this occasion with Knight. He still appeared in good spirits, though, despite the horrifying incident.
His last WWE appearance came in November 2020 when he returned to take part in The Undertaker’s retirement ceremony at Survivor Series.
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