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Update On Tommaso Ciampa Injury, Availability For TakeOver Chicago

As TopRopePress.com reported on last night, Tommaso Ciampa suffered some sort of leg injury at the NXT live event in Highland Heights, Kentucky. The match, which featured DIY taking on Sanity, was stopped after the referee threw up the “X” with his arms. Ciampa limped to the back, visibly upset over what had happened.

Triple H provided a bit of an update during today’s NXT conference call. He said Ciampa has said he just turned his ankle and is good to go for TakeOver Chicago tomorrow night in their NXT Tag Team Championship ladder match against the Authors of Pain. It was later revealed that an x-ray showed it was just a severe sprain of his ankle with nothing broken. In the end, though, Triple H said that the medical team will make the call. He says they are all keeping a positive mindset on how this will all turn out.

“He turned his ankle somewhere. As a precaution everything shut down, it stopped, he got out of there. He went for an X-ray last night, and there’s no break or fracture. He’s got an ankle sprain. When I texted with him this morning, he was feeling better and was up moving around and felt like he was not going to have an issue with it. It was not really bothering him, it was not really as bad as they thought it was.”

Triple H NXT Media Call Highlights

Speaking of the NXT conference call, Triple H also addressed the upcoming women’s tournament. He talked about how it will be harder to put together a tournament, just because of the fact that there are less female competitors worldwide. He wants the roster to be full of women from all over the globe, so he mentioned that many female competitors (from the U.S.) that probably should be on the show might not make it due to them trying to make it global in nature.

Triple H alluded to the fact that the women’s tournament is a “passion project” of his that he has been working on for quite a while. He said that they have/will reach out to women’s wrestlers from the past, not necessarily to compete, but to make an appearance during the tournament.

Other news worthy items from the conference call:

• Triple H was asked about Hideo Itami. It was noted this will be his biggest match since coming to NXT from Japan. Triple H was asked about Itami’s future if this doesn’t go over well. He said he likes to be positive and thinks Itami will rise to the occasion after dealing with so many injury setbacks. He said that if it doesn’t work out, they’ll have to see where Itami wants to take his career moving forward.
• When asked if this event is a sign there will be more Takeover events moving forward, Hunter said this was just a perfect storm scheduling wise because he wanted to get the brand to Chicago. He didn’t say there would be more shows moving forward as far as Takeovers go.
• He complimented both Drew Galloway and Jinder Mahal as guys who have come back, reinvented themselves, and had success.
• Triple H acknowledged managing the brand can be hard when wrestlers get called up, gutting the roster in the process. He also acknowledged people from behind the scenes (like writer Ryan Ward) get called up too, making things difficult. In the end, though, they are a development territory and have to roll with it and continue to reinvent themselves.
• Triple H talked about the upside of Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne and bringing the UK title to the U.S.
• Jim Ross’ return was discussed, with Hunter really putting over the fact that Ross will return tomorrow. He sounds very excited to have him involved with WWE and calling matches again.
• A question was asked about Roderick Strong and how he is progressing. Triple H acknowledged what a great worker he is, but he also said they are continuing to develop him as a personality and his ability to connect with the people is something being worked on.
• Triple H closed when asked about expansion. He was asked what market is next after the U.K. He didn’t give a specific answer but alluded to India being a goal.

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It’s being reported that Tommaso Ciampa, one half of former NXT Tag Team Champions DIY with Johnny Gargano, suffered a knee injury at tonight’s NXT live event in Highland Heights, Kentucky. DIY was facing Sanity, and when Ciampa went to dive off of the apron onto the floor and onto his opponents, he apparently landed wrong and hurt his left knee.

The ref threw up the “X”, and the match was immediately stopped and was ruled a no contest. Fans at ringside quoted Ciampa as being quite upset, saying “Get me the f**k out of here” as he hopped to the back with assistance from trainers at ringside.

Tommaso Ciampa clearly in Pain! #wwe #WWELive #nxthighlandheights pic.twitter.com/K4xA330AS4

— Brian The Guppie (@briantheguppie) May 19, 2017

Tommaso Ciampa helped to the back after the Match was officially Stopped! #nxthighlandheights #wwe #WWELive pic.twitter.com/O16k75i39r

— Brian The Guppie (@briantheguppie) May 19, 2017

DIY and The Authors of Pain are scheduled to have a Ladder Match for the NXT Tag Team Titles Saturday night at NXT TakeOver: Chicago. If Ciampa was legitimately injured tonight, and it’s something that’s can’t be worked through, this could put their match in jeopardy. At this late date, it is unknown what the brand would do as a replacement bout or even if they would have another team challenge the current champions for the titles.

We will have more information on Ciampa and the extent of his injury as more details become available.

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First Match For WWE Extreme Rules Announced

WWE has announced the first match for the upcoming RAW exclusive Extreme Rules PPV. It looks like Matt and Jeff Hardy will be defending their RAW Tag Team Titles against #1 Contenders Sheamus and Cesaro at the event on June 4th at the Royal Farms Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.

Also announced in this video is Jeff’s match with Sheamus on tonight’s RAW…and that will be a No Disqualification match. No stipulations have been announced for the title match at Extreme Rules, but with The Hardys involved, I fully expect this to turn into some sort of Ladder Match.

Jim Ross Calling A Match At NXT TakeOver: Chicago

Jim Ross’ duties with WWE since returning at WrestleMania just seem to grow every week. As we reported last week, Ross and Nigel McGuinness were announced as the commentators for the upcoming UK Live Specials that will air on WWE Network later this week, and today, Ross announced on Twitter that he and McGuinness will be calling the action for the UK Championship match between Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne at Saturday’s NXT TakeOver: Chicago.

Excited to announce that I'll join @McGuinnessNigel Sat night at #NXTTakeOverChicago to call the U.K. Championship match! pic.twitter.com/aKhot7z88P

— Jim Ross (@JRsBBQ) May 15, 2017

I am going to make an educated guess here and say that when and if the company every gets the rumored weekly UK series off the ground, Ross and McGuinness will be the voices of the show.

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