• Bad News For Rhea Ripley Fans
WWE concluded its 2025 Japan Tour with Saturday’s live event at Ryōgoku Kokugikan in Tokyo, featuring a stacked card of matches for local fans. One of the highlights of the night saw Women’s World Champion Stephanie Vaquer defend her title against Rhea Ripley, IYO SKY and Raquel Rodriguez in a Fatal 4-Way Match.
During the match, Rhea Ripley suffered a painful nose injury after an accidental mishap involving Rodriguez and SKY. Rodriguez launched SKY towards Ripley, leading to a hard collision that caught Mami in the face.
Ripley was seen bleeding as referees and medical staff checked on her. She was helped to the back for treatment.
Later, the two-time Women’s World Champion took to X to share a short video showing her nose packed with cotton and a visible cut across the bridge, though she appeared to be in good spirits despite the injury.
Bryan Alvarez of the Wrestling Observer provided an update on Ripley and revealed that she suffered a broken nose at the live event.
We wish Rhea Ripley a speedy recovery!
• Rikishi Undergoes Emergency Surgery
According to PWInsider, WWE Hall of Famer Rikishi recently underwent an unexpected surgery following a sudden health issue. He has canceled several upcoming appearances to focus on his recovery and is expected to make an official announcement soon.
Rikishi is the cousin of Roman Reigns and The Rock and the father of The Usos and Solo Sikoa.
The 60-year-old is also a former Intercontinental Champion, and a three-time Tag Team Champion
We wish Rikishi a speedy recovery!
• Why Ilja Dragunov Won The U.S. Title On SmackDown
On last night’s SmackDown, The Miz was talking to Nick Aldis and Sami Zayn showed up. Sami questioned why his U.S. Title open challenge wasn’t scheduled for the show. Aldis said he was hoping to give Shinsuke Nakamura a rematch after what happened last week, but Nakamura wasn’t there. Zayn said the United States Title means a lot to the fans and hungry wrestlers, so he’s going out to issue a challenge.
Sami came out for his open challenge and The Miz came out. Miz said he’s so sick of these open challenges. Carmelo Hayes attacked Miz from behind. Ilja Dragunov then made his return to answer the challenge.
Dragunov went on to defeat Zayn to win the United States Championship. Solo Sikoa came out during the match and that distracted Sami for a few seconds. Corey Graves mentioned on commentary that this is the reason Sami lost.
According to Bodyslam, Sami pitched the idea of Dragunov defeating him for the title in his return match, as he believes this decision would boost Dragunov’s career and help him gain huge momentum.
Triple H obviously agreed with Sami. WWE pulled shockers on both SmackDown and RAW (The Vision kicking out Seth Rollins) as they plan to improve the TV product.
Also Read: Released WWE Wrestler Announces She’s Dating Ilja Dragunov
• WWE Confiscated Fan Sign About Paige At SmackDown (Video)
Last night’s episode of WWE SmackDown following Crown Jewel aired from San Jose, California. During the show, a fan sitting in the front row was seen several times holding up a sign that read “Paige Come Home!”
The sign quickly caught Paige’s (aka Saraya) attention, and she reacted to it on X, writing: “Find me this guy too!! Haha”
The fan later replied to her post and revealed that WWE security took the sign away from him: “That was me! And they legit came and took my sign away “
You can watch the video of the incident, which happened during the main event between Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes vs. Drew McIntyre, below:
He got his sign confiscated. Bullshit pic.twitter.com/iEzc67Rq2d
— Morales_831 (@Morales_Irvin15) October 18, 2025
Paige left WWE after her contract expired in 2022 and joined AEW afterwards. She is currently a free agent and has expressed interest in returning to WWE.
