WWE taped an episode of NXT after this week’s show from Orlando, Florida, on Tuesday night, where Shotzi suffered a knee injury while wrestling Lyra Valkyria for the NXT Women’s Championship.
Stoppage
The match was stopped with Shotzi being helped to the back. They brought out Lash Legend to fill time for a match with Valkyria. Alba Fyre replaced Shotzi in an Elimination Chamber Qualifying match against Tiffany Stratton on this week’s WWE SmackDown.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that Shotzi blew her knee out. Bryan Alvarez asked whether it was a work, which it wasn’t, with Meltzer pointing out that they booked Legend in a match with Lyra to stall for time.
Latest
Meltzer continued, “Yeah, they had, they had like six minutes left on the TV show. So they had to do something…..Well, we’ll see what happens. But we’re, they were in a panic. They were stalling to try to figure out what to do. And maybe nobody else was ready. And she had just wrestled. Maybe she was in her gear. Maybe nobody else was in their gear.
Yeah. So she was pulled. She was going to be on Friday’s Smackdown show in a match with Tiffany Stratton, which was the qualifier match for the chamber tournament. And the decision was made to go with Alba Fyre against Tiffany Stratton in Friday’s match. And I don’t know the severity of the Shotzi injury. But I do know that she left the building on crutches. And it was a knee injury.”
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