{"id":421277,"date":"2026-01-20T11:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421277\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T11:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T11:12:08","slug":"wwe-smackdown-star-sidelined-with-an-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/421277\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE SmackDown Star Sidelined With An Injury \u2014 Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/tag\/wwe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WWE<\/a> Superstar\u2019s absence from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/tag\/wwe-smackdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SmackDown<\/a> as of late is more serious than what was initially let on. <\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, it was reported by PWInsider that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1605336-update-on-aleister-blacks-wwe-status-report\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleister Black has been off WWE programming<\/a> to sell the results of his ambulance match with Damian Priest. Johnson didn\u2019t believe Black was suffering from any injuries. But now we\u2019re hearing differently on that front.<\/p>\n<p>According to Dave Meltzer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/daily-updates\/daily-update-weekend-notes-on-aew-cmll-and-trey-miguel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Wrestling Observer Daily Update<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/tag\/aleister-black\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aleister Black<\/a> suffered a broken tailbone in his ambulance match with Priest on SmackDown.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Johnson was correct about the planned time off to sell the match itself. This will allow Black time to heal without changing plans he was factored into. Meltzer refers to the injury as a \u201cminor.\u201d An injury along these lines typically takes anywhere from a few weeks to several months to recover from, based on the severity of the injury.<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of everyone here at WrestleZone, we wish Aleister Black a quick and painless recovery.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlezone.com\/news\/1605559-former-tna-champion-announces-hes-been-working-injured\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former TNA Champion Announces He\u2019s Been Working Injured<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What do you make of this report? Are you surprised to hear that Aleister Black suffered an injury during his ambulance match with Damian Priest on SmackDown? Let us know your overall thoughts by sounding off in the comments section below. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears a WWE Superstar\u2019s absence from SmackDown as of late is more serious than what was initially&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123872,49,48,75,13015,38036],"class_list":["post-421277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-aleister-black","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}