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Rikishi opens up following recent emergency surgery

Posted: Nov 9th 2025 By: Bryan Rose

Rikishi has opened up about his recent emergency surgery.

On his podcast, the former Intercontinental Champion, 60, didn’t share specific details regarding what led him to the hospital, but did say he spent six hours under the knife.

“I’m not gonna go into details about everything about what happened, and so forth,” he said. “It was an emergency type of surgery, and I’m gonna leave it at that. It took about six hours…I woke up feeling great, you know what I mean, I feel like a new person.”

Rikishi recommended people check in with their doctors, saying he was one of those people who didn’t do that. He later explained that his ailment was caught “just in time,” and is enjoying a new perspective in life.

“I woke up, you know, feeling a different way when I got wheeled back to the room…meaning just grateful,” he said. “There’s so much to life than to be able to be upset at each other…life, to me, is not so bad after all when you give it another chance to live.”

PWInsider reported last month that the former WWE star and father of The Usos & Solo Sikoa had undergone emergency surgery, without any additional details as to what happened. He co-owns the Knokx Pro Wrestling Academy, which recently was the subject of controversy after the Raja Jackson/Syko Stu incident earlier this summer.