Report: Chelsea Green injured on SmackDown

PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA - AUGUST 7: Interim WWE Women's Championship Chelsea Green makes her entrance during SmackDown at Xfinity Mobile Arena on August 7, 2026 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Brien Adams/WWE via Getty Images) | WWE via Getty Images Rhea Ripley, the current WWE Women’s Champion, is out with an injury that required surgery. She’s out long enough the company decided to crown an interim champion at SummerSlam by holding a ladder match with five participants. Chelsea Green emerged from the pack as the unlikely winner, to a thunderous ovation from the fine folks at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She managed to come out of that ladder match unscathed. That was not the case with her first match after the fact on Friday Night SmackDown this week in Philadelphia. That’s the word from Bryan Alvarez, at least, who reports at F4WOnline.com that Green was injured during her tag team match alongside United States Champion Tiffany Stratton against Fata