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#2. Hope isn't true: "Freak accident" that caused Bayley's forced time away from WWE

Bayley was one of WWE's best stars in the Thunderdome era

WWE announced that Bayley would be removed from the SmackDown Women's Championship match at Money in the Bank and a replacement would be made. It was then revealed that she will be out of action for over nine months as a result of an injury.

BREAKING NEWS: @itsBayleyWWE has suffered an injury while training and will be out approximately nine months.A replacement for her match against @BiancaBelairWWE at #MITB will be announced tonight on #SmackDown.https://t.co/qLsf8KTHNp

— WWE (@WWE) July 9, 2021

It's a big shame because she has been one of WWE's MVPs since the pandemic era and throughout the Thunderdome era. Until October 2020, she was dominating the SmackDown Women's division and held the Women's Championship for over a year. She made history in the process but was unfortunate not to get a spot on the WrestleMania 37 card.

She was scheduled to face Bianca Belair at Money in the Bank, but the match has been scrapped. Authority figure Sonya Deville revealed on SmackDown that the title match would be advanced to two days before the Money in the Bank pay-per-view and that Carmella would be Bayley's replacement.

According to Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, the injury happened during the training of the "return to the road" sessions at the WWE Performance Center:

We're told the Bayley injury happened during the mandatory "return to road" training session at the WWE Performance Center while doing chain wrestling with another Superstar. It was referred to as a freak accident.

— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) July 9, 2021

We hope this isn't true, but for once, it's certain that it is. Unless WWE is using it as a part of the storyline, it most certainly is true.