WWE announced on Wednesday evening that due to the attack on this week’s NXT, Rhea Ripley had suffered a fractured right orbital socket.
Ripley made a special appearance, giving a speech to some stars in the women’s division. Before the main event started, we saw Women’s World Champions Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez backstage with baseball bats, attacking the top WWE star.
The camera followed the scene where Ripley was lying next to her car and had a cut on her head with fake blood pouring out. As previously reported by Fightful, there were concerns within NXT about the amount of blood shown. It was approved by “a higher power” in the brand meaning Shawn Michaels, Triple H, Lee Fitting, or a CW executive.
Following the announcement, PWInsider.com reported they were told there is an injury behind the angle. The belief is the injury happend in a headbutt spot on the October 31st episode. She has been pulled from Sunday’s Raw TV tapings.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted the injury is legit and assumed the break most likely happened on last week’s WWE Raw.
Meltzer said, “She’s got a fractured orbital bone. So, the injury that they announced is pretty much legit. Yeah, it happened last week. I’m not sure, probably the last TV thing, because she hasn’t worked any house shows. So probably in the last TV angle that she did with Raquel, you know, was where it happened most likely. And she is going to be out for a while, and I guess that’s, I don’t know, 100% that’s why she’s not on the pay-per-view, because I did hear that match for the pay-per-view. It happened last week, and then they did this thing as a cover because, you know, to basically have a reason for her to be out of action.
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