Bianca Belair addresses the injury that has kept her out of action since WWE WrestleMania 41
As seen during WWE WrestleMania 41, Iyo Sky defeated Rhea Ripley and Bianca Belair to retain the women’s world title. While speaking to Chris Van Vliet, Bianca addressed the broken finger injury that has kept her out of action since the match. Here are the highlights courtesy of ChrisVanVliet.com…
Her broken finger: “It looks more like a real finger now. So I have to wear my ring finger on my right hand now because my ring doesn’t fit. It’s healed, it won’t fully straighten. I broke it in two or three different spots. I broke it up here in the middle and then down in the joint.”
When the broken finger happened: “So it was when we were doing the triple German spot, when IYO was on the top rope, and then it was Rhea, then it was me, and I came in German suplexed both of them off, and my hand got stuck underneath Rhea. Also I went to the wrong side of Rhea, but my hand, I thought she was gonna go further over me, we kind of just collapsed together. So when my hand went back, it got stuck under her, and she literally crashed on my hand. I knew immediately it was broken, because usually in a match, something happens, and you don’t feel it until after the match, your adrenaline wears off, and you’re like, Ow, my finger. But in the moment I thought I broke all my fingers. So the ref, you can see the ref if you watch back, the ref comes to me. He’s like, ‘Are you okay?’ I’m like, ‘I just broke all of my fingers!’ You just see me rolling around on the ground, and it took Rhea to snap me out of the moment, because I was just rolling around on the ground. And she’s like, ‘Bianca, Bianca!’ And I’m like, ‘What?’ Oh, we have to finish this match.”
How’d you finish it? “Honestly, after she snapped me back into I didn’t feel it at all for the rest of the match. I didn’t feel it until I got to the back and I was like, Oh, I broke my finger, and I didn’t think it was that serious.”