Rhea Ripley is reportedly on the shelf once more. WWE introduced on Wednesday that Ripley is coping with a fractured proper orbital socket, an harm varied skilled wrestling journalists declare is reputable.
This may mark Ripley’s second harm this 12 months. WWE staged a section the place girls’s world champion Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez attacked Ripley within the NXT parking zone.
“Following final night time’s brutal assault by the hands of Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez within the NXT parking zone, Rhea Ripley has suffered a fractured proper orbital socket and shall be out of motion for an undisclosed period of time,” a press release from WWE’s Twitter reads.
The knowledge was shared within the context of a storyline, however professional wrestling journalists Sean Ross Sapp and Dave Meltzer declare the orbital fracture is reputable. Sapp particularly claims the X-ray shared by WWE is genuine. It is commonplace for WWE to make use of angles to jot down off superstars recovering from harm.
Ripley’s reported harm is a significant blow to WWE Uncooked. Ripley, who suffered a reputable arm harm in April throughout a section with Morgan, has been feuding over the ladies’s world championship after returning to tv in July.