Not on the Xavier Woods’ achilles issue which stopped The New Day’s match in Sydney on Mon., Oct. 21, unfortunately. We’ve heard nothing to refute yesterday’s follow-up reports calling the injury “pretty bad”. Buddy Murphy filled in for Woods on Tuesday in Brisbane (pretty well, it seems), teaming with Kofi Kingston & Big E to face The Revival & Randy Orton:
@WWE_Murphy is an actual national treasure #WWEBrisbane pic.twitter.com/JfScEEX6AA
— hoss in training (@boot_legged) October 22, 2019
But there was talk that Roman Reigns suffered a “stinger” or something similar in a steel cage tag match with Daniel Bryan against Luke Harper & Erick Rowan in Sydney. Fan reports from the venue in Australia said he appeared to be in pain and after finishing the match was checked on by medical staff. And given that, the fact Reigns was working a match against Rowan on Oct. 22... and spearing him through a table... counts as good news in our book:
Superman punch and Spear through the table! #TheBigDog @WWERomanReigns #WWEBrisbane #WWEAustralia #WWELive
— RJ (@SFR_RR_inspired) October 22, 2019
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The SmackDown crew’s schedule is nuts over the next couple weeks - they have another show in Melbourne on Wednesday before flying back for Friday’s television in Kansas City, then next week do Saudi Arabia & Buffalo, New York on back-to-back days, then head to Europe for a couple weeks.
Let’s hope we don’t see any more injuries. For now, we’ll take a healthy Big Dog.