New WWE Women’s Champion, Beth Phoenix was injured last night during the WWE Superstars and SmackDown taping, it has been confirmed.
Phoenix wrestled Rosa Mendes in a match taped for Thursday’s episode of Superstars. During the match, Beth went down and the referee threw up the ‘X’ arm gesture to signify an injury. The champion did however, continue the match which was quickly wrapped up.
One source tells us that Beth was seen on crutches following the taping. We hope to have more soon.
Of course, the timing of this injury is extremely bad with Beth just being crowned the new Women’s Champion. Plus, with the release of Mickie James, WWE is light on popular babyface Divas right now. Let’s hope this isn’t serious.
EDIT: Beth sent out the following tweet:
Thank you for the concerned messages…I am 100% just fine and as always in Glamtastic Fighting Form!!
Looks like this could have just been a ‘stinger’. Great to hear that she is okay because this could have been a disaster for the already depleted SmackDown Divas division.
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Oh no! What a past few weeks for fans of women’s wrestling, I tells ya. I hope she’s okay!
Melaine, I echo your statement in hoping this isn’t too serious. This couldn’t have happened at a worser time. :(
(sigh) Hope it isnt to serious!!! With Mickie & Maria Gone , Melina Injured there isnt that much popular Baby Faces left!!
This really sucks right now , it really does!!! I really hope Beth is okay !!!
Oh crap. Things are going to get bad for SD!
WWE probably is cursing themselves for releasing Mickie, because she sure has hell was a good worker.
If we and Beth are Lucky, it won’t be anything serious, because if it is SD! will have some trouble. I mean Michelle is good and Layla and Tiffany are fine too, but a Tiffany/Kelly vs Laycool doesn’t seem good. And since Rosa and Serena are heels they don’t balance the face side.
Probably we’ll see a lot of singles matches, which can be good, especially for Tiffany and Layla to showcase their talents without being the sidekick.
If Beth is injured then Im not watching wwe till July when Melina returns LOL or until Beth returns! Melina , Mickie & Beth were the reason y i watch wwe.. unless they push alicia…they let go katie so i can kiss that dream goodbye other then that no one else entertains me
Everyone’s going to jump into speculation mode now I bet…We’ll see what happens.
If Beth feels pain, do you think David feels it too?
lol @ The_Eric
This is awful. Why do divas get always injured in the middle of a feud. maybe they will have to draft gail to smackdown to be the top babyface though.
molly4ever: Or, since The Hart Dynasty are Unified Tag Champs, they’ll bring along Natalya.
Lets all just hope this isnt serious!! Beth is the best face the company has so this could be really bad for Smackdown it coukd mean that Raw becomes the premier show again as regards womens wrestling!! In speculation mode here I hope this would mean (if it was serious) that Gail was drafted to Smackdown as she should of and used as the top diva face!! or Natalya (FINGERS CROSSED!!!!)
I am glad to hear that Beth Phoenix will be fine. I don’t think I could handle it if she was seriously injured. I don’t need to see Miss headscissors on my screen every friday night.
Thank god she’s fine.
omg some bad luck is goin round female wrestlers :(
I for one am very glad that Beth Phoenix is okay.Glad that we have something on the Internet called a Twitter site where the Diva’s like Beth can convey to her very worried fans that she is okay.What a relief to have this kind of technolgy that we can fined out such information So fast.It’s a great joy too actually here from the star themselves.And that she is 100% just fine.I am so glad to hear that myself .It’s so great that now Beth is the WWE Women’s champion.She’s worked so hard for it. again it is just great that Beth came on twitter and let us know she’s okay and we dont’ have to keep wondering .
Good to hear she’s ok! But it would be WWE’s fault for not pushing more talent and making them at least semi popular.
I hope it’s not that serious. If this is, Smackdown’s women’s division would suffer. If she needs to drop the title, I don’t see anyone worthy of it just yet. I don’t want another McCool reign. She’s already been shoved down our throats far too long and I for one am beginning to think that she’s gone stale as a champion. I don’t think that Kelly, Tiffany or Layla are ready to reign yet.
As for Beth keeping the title albeit an injury, perhaps she can pull it off given the right storyline and if the healing process does not require her to take a long time off the ring. Maybe the WWE can have her mentoring Tiffany or Kelly and let them deal with LayCool while she heals up.
Keeping my fingers crossed here. Beth is needed more than ever right now.
By the way, GAIL KIM # 1, that’s a VERY good point.
glad shes ok considering shes in the ring wit rosa no on should be surprised at all….
Good job she’s ok, that’s great news. I couldn’t face seeing Kelly getting Women’s Title matches, it was bad enough seeing her get Divas Title ones. Occurances like this highlight why WWE needs to fire the girls like Rosa who just haven’t gelled with the training and also why they need to have another credible Women’s Title contender like Gail on the Face side of things. I really hope there’s another Divas trade this year in October for that reason.
Glad to know that Beth is OK. If WWE had moved Gail Kim to SD as most presumed WWE would have a first rate wrestler there to take up the slack rather than leaving Ms. Kim on the Monday night Raw Comedy show.
Hope Shes Ok Because Same Thing Happend WIth Melina The “X” Sign Was Seen By The Referee and was severly injured but looks like rosa did pretty good.
Also if she has to rest for a while then we’ll be seeing Rosa,Michelle,Layla,Kelly and Tiffany For The Next Few Weeks.
Sounds like she’s ok, at least I hope. That would be horrible to have her get injured specially right now when she just won the Womens Title.
Thank god she is OK
If both her and Melina were injured at the same time….
Imagine a Division like that….
And you all were already planning out how the division was going to go.
i’m glad Beth is ok
i had a realization, Michelle and Beth are carrying the SD division right now so if either got injured there is nothing to fall back on
they haven’t pushed Layla at all, Tiffany is still very new, and Kelly’s matches are stale and she hasn’t been given a character (i left out Serena because she is a manager and i don’t see that changing for a wile) i hope they fix this, ALICIA TO SD!!!!
Oh sweet Jesus! (fingers and toes crossed that she is OK) UGH!!!!
“Good to hear she’s ok! But it would be WWE’s fault for not pushing more talent and making them at least semi popular.”
Injuries can happen to ANYONE. Pushing “talent” with the natural personality of dishwater won’t amount to good business. Just ask Michelle or Drew McIntyre.
I too hope that Beth’s injury is not serious to keep her out of action for a long period of time, (more than a month). Beth is the only Diva on the Smackdown roster who knows how to wrestle. Please don’t take this statement wrong, it’s directed toward WWE management not put down Beth. WWE management gets what they deserve, using Divas who don’t know how to wrestle. I’m surprised that the injury rate with the Divas is not higher. They fired Mickie James, who was the most experience Diva that was on the roster (11 years in the wrestling busniess) and they expect Beth to carry these Divas can’t wrestle who half the time are botching up moves in the ring. I blame WWE management for Beth’s injury; maybe they’ll wake up and bring back Mickie James or bring in women who can wrestle like the independent female wrestler Simply Luscious. Hopefully Beth is fine as she said in her tweet.
OMG! Who’s Michelle going to fued with if Beth is injured? Kelly Kelly!?
I hope nobody thinks I’m like THE Kelly hater by the way. Nothing against her. Just no way she’s ready to become top diva!
It’s nothing huge, she already tweeted saying she was 100 % fine. Also, it was said that she just suffered a minor ankle injury, so she won’t be missing much to any time.
All she is pulled from is the Mexico tour which is this weekend. So I’m sure the next week or two she’ll be back up and running.
My evil side wants Rosa to stay so she can keep bringing the lulz with her “wrestling-style”. But I really want her booty on FCW training hard so she can one day become acceptably good in-ring wise. Rosa is the new Lacey.