An update has emerged on the status of Raw star Kevin Owens, following reports about WWE’s handling of his legitimate injury.
On the July 24 edition of Raw, Kevin Owens was attacked by the Judgment Day, with Damian Priest and Rhea Ripley throwing the WWE Tag Team Champion onto the arena stage to distract Sami Zayn during his match against Dominik Mysterio.
It was later reported that Owens had suffered a legitimate injury which WWE was using to advance the onscreen storyline.
Per Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, Owens has been dealing with a real-life fractured rib for a while, and WWE is planning to give the current champion some time to rest.
Meltzer said:
“It’s a fractured rib.
“He’s actually been working on it for a while, and it was just one of those things where they were waiting for a time to finish up whatever they were finishing up, and they were gonna do.
“I don’t know if they were always gonna do this angle – but they were gonna do something.
“He’s gonna get a rest. I don’t know how long and I don’t know what the status of the tag team titles are, I’m sure that’ll probably all be addressed in the next couple of days.
“But he’s been working on a legit injury so that’s the basic gist of the story there.”
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Owens and Zayn won the WWE Tag Team Championship from the Usos in the main event of WrestleMania 39 Saturday in April.
Owens most recently wrestled on the July 17 edition of Raw, when he and Zayn defended their title against Priest and Mysterio.
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