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Select Answers: Eddie Kingston Update, Rhea Ripley, WWE Brand Split

Added 2024-11-06 18:00:06 +0000 UTC

Welcome to Select Answers, a short feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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Any update on Eddie Kingston?

Kingston got injured in May, and the original though was that he'd just broken his leg. However, they realized pretty soon he'd torn his ACL and meniscus. He underwent surgery, and we were told to not expect him back until Spring/Summer 2025. We wish him the best in his recovery.

Was Rhea already injured since she wasn't on RAW and didn't had any physical interactions besides laying by the car covered in blood?

The word internally was that Ripley had already been injured by the October 28 WWE Raw, and the angle was set up for NXT the next night. She wasn't featured live on Raw and was only in a video vignette. We're not sure exactly when she got hurt or the severity. Just the internal claims.

With Netflix requesting names for Raw. Will there be a draft or is Smackdown just going to get picked over. Is the brand split is 100% dead

It's not 100 percent dead. With Smackdown being on USA Network and Raw being on Netflix, each platform will need unique talent. Netflix requesting certain names means that they understand that there will be some parity there. Talent haven't been told which brand they'll be on yet.