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WWE has an extremely large roster spanning across multiple brands. There's RAW, SmackDown Live, NXT, NXT UK and 205 Live all with an incredible array of talent across them all.
However, when you have such a large roster in the physically demanding wrestling industry you're bound to have a fairly large injury list of Superstars that have picked up knocks or full-blown injuries.
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There are several Superstars we already know are injured, people like Nia Jax, Ruby Riott, Mickie James and Bobby Lashley who have all had public injury announcements and have undergone major surgery!
However, with such a large roster, there are several more Superstars than we'd think and there's actually an extensive list of Superstars that we had no clue were injured because WWE hasn't announced it and it's all gone under the radar.
#10 Jessamyn Duke
Jessamyn Duke is one of the MMA Four Horsewomen that are in WWE, alongside Shayna Baszler, Ronda Rousey and Marina Shafir. She joined WWE roughly around the same time that Rousey signed and has been plying her trade in NXT ever since.
However, Duke hasn't been seen for roughly two months with her last television taping match being the tag-team match with Marina Shafir against Candice LeRae and Io Shirai before the Japanese Superstar's heel turn. Duke's last recorded match though, was June 27th, 2019 at a NXT house show.
Squared Circle Sirens' (Not Sports Entertainment Sirens) Casey Michael tweeted about Duke and indicated that he'd heard she was out with an injury, but did not, at this point, know what that injury was.
Sean Ross Sapp's injury update for Fightful has indicated that Duke is expected to return to action soon!
This will be great news for WWE as I truly believe the end goal is to have the Four Horsewomen (Becky Lynch, Bayley, Charlotte Flair, Sasha Banks) against the Four MMA Horsewomen!
#9 Kacy Catanzaro
Kacy Catanzaro is an immensely popular and highly talented NXT Superstar who many have tipped for big things in the future. However news broke recently that not only was she injured when nobody had a clue, but she was in fact on the verge of retiring from wrestling.
Catanzaro's last match for NXT on television was June 13th, 2019 against Io Shirai in the build towards the Candice LeRae and Io Shirai match, and her last house show match was on July 19th, 2019.
Casey Michael from Squared Circle Sirens reported that in a similar situation to fellow promising NXT alumni Stacey Ervin Jr, Kacy Catanzaro was retiring from wrestling,
At the moment there seem to be conflicting reports about whether or not Catanzaro has retired from wrestling, if she's still contracted to WWE and what the state of her injury is and if it's career-ending.
#8 Flash Morgan Webster
Flash Morgan Webster won the biggest match of his career at NXT UK TakeOver: Cardiff when he and Mark Andrews, as South Wales Subculture, defeated Gallus and Grizzled Young Veterans to win the NXT UK Tag-Team Titles.
This was an amazing moment with the hometown heroes picking up the win and as far as the match itself was considered, it was considered by many to be the match of a packed wrestling weekend, and a perfect six-man tag-team Triple Threat match.
But, not many people will have known that Flash Morgan Webster, who had been out previously with an arm injury, with people assuming he had recovered and returned, was actually still injured with a shoulder issue for this whole match.
It certainly is fairly mental that Flash Morgan Webster wrestled that whole match with a shoulder injury, especially, as fellow NXT UK Superstar Eddie Dennis highlights, hitting a 630 Splash
#7 Riddick Moss
News broke recently that WWE officials were high on NXT Superstar Riddick Moss, who used to be in a tag-team with Tino Sabbatelli but disappeared when both he and Sabbatelli picked up serious injuries at the same time.
Moss has since recovered from his achilles injury and has been back in action for quite some time now! In fact, anyone who has been following Moss's recorded matches will be thinking that he's not injured at all, with his last match actually taking place on the 5th September, 2019.
However, even though he's still actively wrestling, Moss is working through an injury, as reported by Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful on their recent injury round-up article.
Riddick Moss: Working through broken nose
Moss is part of a new faction called 'The Outliers' featuring Dorian Mak (formerly known as Dan Matha) and managed by Robert Stone (formerly Impact Wrestling's Robbie E). He has impressed people with his attitude and worth ethic, and presumably his desire to continue wrestling with a broken nose.
#6 Karen Q
Karen Q was one of WWE's more recent signings, joining in the February 2019 intake and was an excellent addition to the women's roster, especially after competing in 2018's Mae Young Classic.
However she suffered a fairly major setback in the the beginning of her WWE career after breaking her leg during a house show tag-team match where she teamed with Bianca Belair to take on Reina Gonzalez and Rhea Ripley.
The injury occurred when Karen Q was bridging for a pin attempt and the subsequent dive to break it up caused Q to land on her leg badly. You can watch footage of the incident, which seemed like an unfortunate accident, below.
At the moment there's no timeline for Karen Q's return but here's hoping for a speedy recovery so she can get right back into where she left off before the injury occurred.
#5 Carmella
Carmella has had a great run on WWE television recently as R-Truth's friend, aiding him in his quest to win the 24/7 title and to help him keep it. But she hasn't been seen for a couple of months now.
In fact, her last appearance was on the July 29th, 2019 Monday Night RAW where she teamed up with R-Truth against Drake Maverick and his wife Renee Michelle in a mixed-tag-team match.
But Carmella hasn't been seen since then with people assuming she had taken time off. However, she has subsequently taken to Instagram to release a lengthy statement explaining that she had a health-scare
She didn't go into great detail about what the health-scare was but It looks like whatever it was is all okay now, but here's hoping that Carmella continues to make the most of her time away from WWE and when she returns, she returns better than ever!
#4 Rachel Ellering
It's not been a great year for the women of NXT with Karen Q and Kacy Catanzaro making the list here, and other prominantly known injuries happening to the likes of Chelsea Green, Tegan Nox and Dakota Kai, but there's more!
Newly signed Rachel Ellering/Rachel Evers was wrestling Lacey Lane in a singles match during an NXT house show at Fort Pierce, Florida and had to stop the match halfway through after blowing out her knee and tearing her ACL.
Ellering/Evers, like Karen Q, may have gone under the radar with their injuries because they hadn't been with WWE for very long at all when they happened, but she recently underwent surgery and is now in physical therapy.
Here's a light-hearted social media post of her and Karen Q recovering together. Thank god Karen couldn't get that German suplex off though. Would've set them both back weeks!
#3 Kavita Devi
Kavita Devi is still a relatively unknown name in the WWE. She's WWE's first ever female Indian female wrestler and has competed in the Mae Young Classic and she's also on the injury list.
Devi's last match was in a singles match against Io Shirai a day after she teamed with Jessi Kamea against Deonna Purazzo and Rachel Evers. This, as you'll now know is a small piece of irony as she would end up receiving the same injury that Evers would get - a torn ACL. Devi's surgery was scheduled for August 15th, 2019 and she has taken to recovery quite well by the looks of this video
Devi shouldn't really be a relative unknown still though, as the video of her first round Mae Young Classic match against Dakota Kai has a staggering 44 million views and counting. (For comparison most weekly videos from Raw or SmackDown are considered successful if they reach 1 million.) This makes Devi's debut match one of the most-watched matches ever on Youtube.
#2 Tamina
Tamina's last main roster televised match was at WrestleMania where she competed alongside Nia Jax in an attempt to win the WWE Women's Tag-Team Titles and she hasn't been on television since so people could be forgiven for not knowing she's injured and not just not on television.
But Tamina had been wrestling on the house show circuit ever since WrestleMania until her match on July 12th at a house show in Maine when she had to be attended to at ringside during a match teaming with Sarah Logan against Dana Brooke and Naomi.
Tamina was physically knocked out during the match after taking a stiff knee from Naomi, although she was able to walk out with assistance.
It has since been revealed that Tamina Snuka picked up a concussion and she's been out of action as a result with no current timetable for a return!
Fightful reported that there was particular concern from WWE about their handling of Tamina's injury because it happened publicly and was attended to at ringside
#1 Toni Storm
I think I speak for most people when I say that I was shocked to see Toni Storm lose the NXT Women's Championship against Kay Lee Ray at NXT UK TakeOver: Cardiff. But some of you might be also shocked to learn that she went into that match dealing with a shoulder injury.
I managed to speak to Storm before NXT TakeOver: Cardiff where she revealed she had in fact been dealing with an injury, which was why she had to pull out of some other bookings in the run-up to her title defence.
Here's the full quote,
"Well basically, I'm travelling a lot, I'm working a lot, I'm doing a lot of shows. Obviously, I'm going to be okay for TakeOver. I just had to cancel a few bookings to prevent injury because sometimes you just get to a point and after ten years my body starts to, kind of, fail me a little bit,"
"But yeah, I did have a little bit of an issue with my shoulder and I just needed to take a break because there's so much at stake. I'm going into the biggest match of my career so far. My biggest title defence since being champion. So I just have to actually take care of myself for a few weeks leading into this. I can't take any risks at the moment because what we do to our bodies can be so dangerous so I'm basically just getting myself in proper condition because there's so much at stake."
You can read my full interview with Toni Storm here.
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