Lana injured ahead of Raw, comments on her injury and on first match
Earlier today, WWE broke the news that Lana has injured her wrist while training over the weekend before a WWE Live Event in Fairfax, Virginia.
The Ravishing Russian has taken to social media to confirm the injury. She doesn't offer details about if she will undergo the surgery Dr. Chris Amman discussed in his statement, or what time off from her current storyline with Dolph Ziggler, Summer Rae & Rusev her treatment and recovery might entail. WWE.com has put up this statement:
“During a training session [Sunday] afternoon, Lana had sustained an injury in the ring. We attended to her and noticed that she had a deformity of her wrist,” said WWE’s senior ringside physician Dr. Scott Amann.
Dr. Amann continued, “We obtained X-rays which showed a Colles’ fracture and [we put her] in a split. Most of these Colles’ fractures do better surgically than non-surgically especially in younger patients. Most likely this will require an operation, which will take her out of active competition for approximately four months.”
A Lana injury right now would be terrible timing. Her feud with Summer Rae has been simmering away for weeks, and the audience are definitely ready to see them going at it in a match. It could be a straight up Lana versus Summer Rae match, or Lana and Dolph Ziggler versus Rusev and Summer Rae. The entire narrative she’s involved in has already suffered a devastating injury on one occasion, with Rusev being sidelined with an ankle injury when the story first started.
Thankfully, WWE added Summer Rae to the equation, and that’s helped to resurrect some of the interest. The bad blood between Summer and Lana has been entertaining, to the point it has overshadowed Rusev and Ziggler.
But she is thankful for fan support and determined to get back on television, including making her long awaited in-ring debut. She posted the following statement on Twitter and Instagram:
“I have dedicated my entire life to becoming the best sports entertainer I could be. Every since I have debuted in @wwe I have continued to go to @wwenxt & come hours early before live events to train & learn how to fight. I wanted my first match to make the #WWE Universe proud. My wrist fracture is proof that WWE & professional wrestling is not fake but very real. This is a bump in the road & can be discouraging but for every person that has believed in me and has ever chanted #WeWantLana I will keep going. From here forward I will share every part of my journey to my first match. Thank you to every fan that has cheered for me & chanted my name, you all give me the strength to be brave. I will continue to give everything I have to becoming one of the greatest women in WWE & entertainment.”