What reportedly caused Chelsea Green to suffer a broken orbital bone on SmackDown
As seen during the August 7th 2026 edition of WWE SmackDown, WWE Women’s Champion Chelsea Green teamed with Tiffany Stratton in a loss to WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid. Chelsea later announced that she suffered a broken orbital bone.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez of F4WOnline.com explained what caused the injury…
“There was a tag match they did on the show, and it was Fatal Influence versus Chelsea and Tiffany. They did the match and everything was going along as it should, and then at the very end Fatal Influence hit Chelsea with their finish. It looked on TV like everything was fine, but in fact everything was not fine. Lainey fell on Chelsea’s head in doing the move, and Chelsea broke her orbital bone.
So now the interim champion has a broken orbital bone. She’s acknowledged it. We don’t know how long she’s going to be out. Probably we’ll know in a couple of days. Maybe a deal where she can wear that thing on her face. Maybe she’ll have to also vacate. I don’t know what’s going on, but she is hurt.
I have heard people saying within wrestling that this is not a good finish anyway, so we’ll see if they end up getting a new finish. But it was one of those finishes where it looked like nothing went wrong, but somebody got badly injured.”