WWE announced that Kevin Owens suffered two fractures after WWE SmackDown on December 1, 2023.
Kevin Owens won his match against Grayson Waller, but was taken to WWE Infirmary for further analysis after the bout after injuring his hand. After analysis, WWE announced that Kevin Owens broke two of his metacarpals. More specifically, the 4th and 5th of his metacarpals:
TO UPDATE: @fightowensfight suffered an injury in which he broke his 4th and 5th metacarpals #Smackdown last night. https://t.co/2eZSVEJ27G
– WWE (@WWE) December 2, 2023
It is currently impossible to know if this violation is an act or if it is real.
If a real injury were to occur, the injury could impact Kevin Owens’ participation in the US Championship tournament. WWE unveiled an image announcing that Kevin Owens, Santos Escobar, Karrion Kross, Dragon Lee, Grayson Waller, Austin Theory, Bobby Lashley and an NXT wrestler would be attending the tournament to crown the next contender to Logan Paul.
We will have to wait for the next updates from WWE to know if Kevin Owens is really injured and if this will affect his presence in the tournament.
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