Rey Mysterio’s United States Title Invitational finals match with Santos Escobar ended earlier than expected on Friday’s episode of WWE SmackDown after he was reportedly “knocked silly.”
There had been some confusion as to when exactly the injury happened as WWE did an angle following an outside dive to bring in the medical team, leading to the match being stopped. Escobar was declared the winner, and the two hugged it out after the bout.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted Mysterio is said to be fine, but there’s still no word yet on whether Mysterio will be taking time off.
“Okay, so I watched the match back, so here’s everything that happened. Okay. Did you watch the match back? So there was a cross body by Santos Escobar a couple of minutes before the finish, and after he does it, he takes what ends up is like, you could see that he’s stunned. The referee goes to him. He gets up, Santos kind of backs off in the middle of a match, and he’s just not quite there. So that is the first spot. But he ended up, whatever it was, you know, after kinda like laying there for a little while and everyone backing off. He regained his bearings, was pretty much fine after that, you know, until, and then the top spot where he hit his head. So the top spot was the second injury. It was not a work from the first injury. I think I said that the first time, but the original injury, I guess the original injury was the cross-body. The top was the second one, but the top was the one that, you know, when, when there’s two of them already, you really should stop the match, and he didn’t get up so quickly from the second one. You know, they were working on him during the commercial break, and he’s, he’s fine now from what I understand. I don’t know if that’s what, you know, fine is a relative term. I’m sure that he’s not, you know, I mean, he got, he got his bell rung twice or whatever it was. I don’t know, like, again, I don’t know if there’s a concussion. I don’t know if he’s taking time off. Nobody has said anything other than I was told. He’s fine. And, but you know, so that’s, that’s essentially what happened there.”
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