Update On WWE Champion Not Cleared To Compete
Have snakebitten titles taken down another superstar?
It just feels like every time you turn around, another WWE Women's Tag Team Champion is being sidelined, throwing the lineage of the titles into disarray.
Monday night, WWE official Adam Pearce said that Piper Niven, one-half of the women's tag champions, was "not medically cleared to compete." He didn't elaborate, nor did he move to strip Chelsea Green of the titles.
It turns out this isn't a storyline issue, but it also hopefully is only a temporary problem.
Fightful Select reports that WWE sources indicate that Niven is dealing with "a short-term illness" and will hopefully be back in action "in a week or two if all goes well." The report adds that there are no plans to vacate the tag titles or find a replacement for Piper, who herself is a replacement for Sonya Deville, who went down with an ACL injury last month.
Niven claimed the vacant half of the tag titles on Raw last month, grabbing the physical belt and declaring she was Chelsea's new tag partner. That was made official rather than stripping Green of the titles and starting over.
The Women's Tag Team Championship have been considered by many fans to be cursed, as they have been vacated or changed hands numerous times due to injury or superstars leaving the company. This year alone, the titles have been vacated once, changed hands due to tag partners turning on each other, switched again with one of the then-champs being injured, and saw Niven become champion to replace an injured Deville.
Most famously, the tag championship was vacated for three months last year after Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out of WWE, handing over the titles.
Here's hoping Piper recovers quickly and is back in action soon.