Rhea Ripley Injury Forced Major WWE SummerSlam Changes, Return Timeline Emerges

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Rhea Ripley‘s knee injury reportedly forced WWE to make significant changes to its creative plans ahead of SummerSlam 2026.WWE officially announced on the June 12 episode of SmackDown that Ripley suffered a knee injury while in Italy. The reigning WWE Women’s Champion has not wrestled since then and was later removed from promotional material for Night of Champions due to the injury.According to reports, WWE had originally planned for Ripley to defend the WWE Women&