Folks, we’ve got a whodunit on our hands, or rather a “what happened to Ivar” on our hands. After Gallus left Wes Lee, Josh Briggs, and our Viking friend Ivar looking like they’d had a very bad day at “WWE NXT,” we got news from WWE that Ivar had an injury so mysterious it didn’t even get a name. All we knew was he’d be out indefinitely, which in wrestling terms, could mean anything from “he needs a nap” to “his neck is trying to secede from his body.”
Enter stage left: the wrestling journalists. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, playing the part of the calm detective, says this whole injury thing is a setup. A pre-planned angle to give Ivar some much-needed R&R. Probably off to a spa retreat for some Viking therapy, right?
But hold your Viking shields, because Fightful Select is here to stir the pot. They’re shouting, “Fake news!” and insisting Ivar’s injury is very much real. They remind us Ivar has been living on the edge since his neck surgery in 2020, implying he’s been wrestling with all the caution of a cat on a hot tin roof.
So, who to believe? Is Ivar taking a storyline siesta, or is his neck acting up like a toddler denied candy?
Meanwhile, WWE, always the master of the quick pivot, has swapped out Ivar for Apollo Crews in the WWE Speed Championship number one contenders tournament. Crews, who Ivar himself sent packing in the opening round, gets a surprise second chance. It’s like when you forget to study for a test, but the teacher lets you retake it because, well, wrestling.
Apollo Crews now steps up to face Tyler Bate, and you can almost hear the “Eye of the Tiger” music playing in the background. All this while Ricochet, the Speed Championship’s shiny new holder, looks on probably wondering if his next match will involve dodging any surprise Viking comebacks.
So there you have it. Is Ivar actually hurt? Or is this just another plot twist in the endless soap opera that is WWE? Stay tuned, because in this world, the only thing that’s certain is that nothing is certain. Except maybe for Ricochet’s impressive flips. Those are definitely real.