Spoilers have emerged surrounding the WWE in-ring return of Women’s Champion Chelsea Green, following her orbital injury.
With Chelsea Green suffering a broken orbital bone on the August 7 SmackDown episode, there has been a lot of speculation about her future as the blue brand’s top active women’s champion.
Nick Aldis announced on August 14 that he was giving Chelsea Green 30 days to defend her WWE Women’s Championship before he’d be forced to strip her of the gold.
Green has taken a huge leap closer to this title defense, wrestling her first match since suffering the injury at the August 24 taping for this Friday’s (August 28) SmackDown episode.
Spoilers are on the next page, so only click ahead if you want to know what was taped for Friday’s show.
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Chelsea Green returned to the ring in tag-team action, competing alongside Tiffany Stratton against Nia Jax and Lash Legend of the Irresistible Forces.
As was recently teased, Green wore a bedazzled protective mask for this match, which you can see in the clip below this news story.
Green and Stratton ultimately came up short, with Jax and Legend scoring the victory. Reports on the match indicate that Green returned to the match after initially being taken away by medics.
Here are spoilers from the taping, courtesy of Tom Sherwood/Fightful:
Kevin Owens, CM Punk, GUNTHER, and Finn Balor interrupt each other. Owens vs GUNTHER vs Balor #1 contender’s match is set up for later in the night.
Nia Jax & Lash Legend def. Tiffany Stratton & Chelsea Green. Medics tried to take Green away, but she returned to the match.
Backstage: GUNTHER interrupts Nick Aldis and Danhausen
Jacy Jayne def. Paige – Women’s US Championship
Post match: Nikki Bella attacks Paige
Backstage: Giulia attacks Blake Monroe
Finn Balor vs. Kevin Owens vs. Gunther ends via disqualification following interference from Zayn.
Post match: CM Punk runs down, Sami Zayn lays everyone out with the Undisputed WWE Title belt
With August 28 marking 14 days following Nick Aldis’ ultimatum, it would make sense for Chelsea Green’s next match to be her WWE Women’s Championship defense.
With Nia Jax and Lash Legend picking up the win, it appears that one of these two women will likely be Green’s first challenger.
Future episodes of WWE Raw and SmackDown will also be taped on August 28 – the day the above match airs on tape delay – so the Rocket Arena in Cleveland could play host to Chelsea Green’s anticipated championship match.
Chelsea Green looks good with the mask 🤩 pic.twitter.com/Jl2tAO1983
— The Squared Times (@TheSquaredTimes) August 25, 2026
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