Becky Lynch Injured Ahead Of WWE WrestleMania 38

Becky Lynch has suffered what she describes as a "fractured voice box" while wrestling Bianca Belair and Rhea Ripley over the weekend.

Lynch was defending her Raw Women's Championship in a Triple Threat in Allenstown, Pennsylvania on the Road to WrestleMania tour's 6 March show.

Though she finished the match, picking up the victory, Becky claims to have been hurt when Belair used her hair as a weapon, posting the following caption to Instagram along with the image above:-

Unfortunately I will not be at #WWERaw tonight. Not only did Bianca whip me mercilessly with the illegal weapon that is her hair last week, but last night in the main event of #WWEAllentown she tried to take away my biggest weapon, the spoken word, by fracturing my voice box. She can’t keep me down that easily. I’ll be coming for her next week. You can’t spell Wrestlemania without I!!!!!

While it was initially unclear if Lynch's injury was a work or shoot, PWInsider's Mike Johnson has since confirmed that it is the latter. The good news? The Raw Women's Champion is only expected to be sidelined for two weeks, meaning that if everything goes to plan, Lynch will be okay to wrestle Belair at WrestleMania 38.

WWE's current schedule has Becky defending her Raw Women's Championship against Bianca on WM 38's first night (Saturday 2 April). Belair won that right by defeating five other Raw women in a contendership match at Elimination Chamber 2022 last month. Her rival, meanwhile, has held the red strap since conducting a controversial belt swap angle with Charlotte Flair in October 2021.