Injury Updates from Summerslam, Samoa Joe, Balor, Orton
Posted: Aug 22nd, '16, 10:51
Source: f4wonline.com
-- Finn Balor's crowning moment of winning the Universal title over Seth Rollins Sunday at WWE SummerSlam may be for naught as he was injured, believed to be suffered after he was power bombed into the barricade by Rollins.
The severity of the injury is unknown at this point as he's scheduled for an evaluation Monday at television, but his arm was in a sling post-show and there was fear he would need surgery.
If Balor is unable to perform for more than a few weeks, it'll require some major overhauls in creative plans since he was scheduled to headline all the Raw brand shows as the Universal Champion.
Of note, Balor appeared Monday morning with new WWE Women's Champion Charlotte on Good Morning America and was not wearing any type of sling.
-- Samoa Joe confirmed via twitter that he indeed got his jaw dislocated due to one of Nakamura's knees.
He said: "Obviously the idea was to get hardway blood. The elbow was designed to cut him open, and I don't know how badly [Orton] was hurt. Obviously he was selling and they were trying to work the idea that he was knocked out and they had to stop the match, and from what I can gather due to no one talking about anything going awry, that was probably close to what was supposed to happen, if not exactly what was supposed to happen... there was no doubt that [Lesnar] was looking to open him up."
From WWE:
-- Finn Balor's crowning moment of winning the Universal title over Seth Rollins Sunday at WWE SummerSlam may be for naught as he was injured, believed to be suffered after he was power bombed into the barricade by Rollins.
The severity of the injury is unknown at this point as he's scheduled for an evaluation Monday at television, but his arm was in a sling post-show and there was fear he would need surgery.
If Balor is unable to perform for more than a few weeks, it'll require some major overhauls in creative plans since he was scheduled to headline all the Raw brand shows as the Universal Champion.
Of note, Balor appeared Monday morning with new WWE Women's Champion Charlotte on Good Morning America and was not wearing any type of sling.
-- Samoa Joe confirmed via twitter that he indeed got his jaw dislocated due to one of Nakamura's knees.
-- on last night's Wrestler Observer Radio Meltzer confirmed the ending to Lesnar/Orton was a work.
He said: "Obviously the idea was to get hardway blood. The elbow was designed to cut him open, and I don't know how badly [Orton] was hurt. Obviously he was selling and they were trying to work the idea that he was knocked out and they had to stop the match, and from what I can gather due to no one talking about anything going awry, that was probably close to what was supposed to happen, if not exactly what was supposed to happen... there was no doubt that [Lesnar] was looking to open him up."
From WWE:
Randy Orton has received 10 staples to close a laceration on his forehead following the brutal assault by Brock Lesnar that resulted in a TKO at SummerSlam.
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