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WWE champ Chelsea Green shows extent of orbital bone fracture, hopeful for quick recovery

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Interim WWE women’s champion Chelsea Green appeared to remain hopeful about her injury status as she showed the extent of her broken orbital bone on social media on Tuesday.

Green suffered the injury during a tag team match against women’s tag team champions Fallon Henley and Lainey Reid.

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Chelsea Green attends Netflix and WWE's Monday Night Raw brunch at MGM Grand Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, Nev., on April 21, 2025. (Getty Images for Netflix)

"Fingers crossed for a quick comeback," she wrote in a post on her Instagram Stories.

She announced over the weekend that she suffered a broken orbital bone just days after becoming the interim WWE women’s champion in a ladder match at SummerSlam.

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"I did get injured last night. Stuff happens. It’s live television. It’s wrestling. It’s an occupational hazard," Green said in a video posted to her Instagram. "I ended up in the emergency room and I have a broken orbital bone. It looks amazing all things considered. It feels awful but looks pretty amazing."

"I have no idea what that means for me. Usually, you guys have seen me play into every single injury but this feels different, obviously. This feels very different. It feels frustrating. I’m upset. I feel like if I didn’t have bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. So, I just need to take a bit more time to process and to heal from, obviously, the head trauma that is going on right now and then we’ll see what happens. We’re just gonna take it day by day. So, world domination continues. We’ve just had a minor blip."

It’s unclear where the title picture will go from here.

Interim WWE Women's Championship Chelsea Green makes her entrance during SmackDown at Xfinity Mobile Arena in Philadelphia, Pa., on Aug. 7, 2026. (WWE via Getty Images)

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Rhea Ripley, who was the WWE women’s champion, announced earlier this month that she underwent knee surgery and will be out for some time. The Interim WWE Women’s Championship was created in lieu of Ripley’s injury, but Green’s bad luck appeared to throw the scene in flux.

Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital.

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