Current WWE Champion Out 'Indefinitely' With Injury

Torn ACL sidelines Sonya Deville, Women's Tag Team Championship picture unclear.

by Scott Carlson
Sonya Deville
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There's never a good time to suffer an injury, but less than three weeks after winning your first championship is probably up there as one of the worst.

TMZ reported Monday that WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Sonya Deville sustained a torn ACL and will be out of action indefinitely, which WWE and Deville herself later confirmed, with Sonya clarifying it was her left knee and that she is undergoing surgery on Tuesday. Deville sustained the injury during a tag match on SmackDown against Charlotte Flair and Bianca Belair.

Deville and Chelsea Green had just won the tag titles on the 17 July Raw, knocking off Raquel Rodriguez & Liv Morgan. It was the first WWE title for both women, who competed against each other on the sixth season of Tough Enough in 2015. Deville has been with WWE since then, making the tag titles her first taste of gold after eight years on the roster.

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Although WWE acknowledged the injury on Raw, they did not clarify what the fate of the tag titles were Monday night. WWE.com still listed Deville & Green as champions.

In her comments, Deville joked that the women's tag titles are cursed, but a few champs during the past year have hit with the injury bug, including Liv Morgan, Dakota Kai and Aliyah.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.