Sonya Deville Reflects on ACL Injury and Return to WWE

Deville Opens Up About the Severity of Her Injury and Her Comeback

Summary

– Sonya Deville suffered an ACL tear on the July 28th episode of SmackDown.

– Deville initially didn’t realize the severity of her injury and continued to wrestle.

– Her injury ended her reign as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion, but she has now returned to RAW.

Sonya Deville returned to WWE RAW this month after suffering an ACL tear on the July 28th episode of SmackDown. During an appearance on the Insight podcast with Chris Van Vliet, Deville shared details about her injury and the moment she realized its severity.

Initially, Deville didn’t grasp how severe the injury was despite suspecting it might be serious. She continued to wrestle, hoping it was just a minor setback. “The whole time I’m like ‘Oh my God, I hope I don’t fall flat on my face.’ Sure enough, we made it to the end, I limped back, got in my rental car, went to my hotel, and tried to pretend it didn’t happen. Because in this business nobody wants to be injured and out of play,” Deville explained.

Trying to downplay the injury, Deville didn’t want anyone to see how bad it was. However, a late-night incident made her realize the true extent of her condition. “I told myself it’s fine, it’s a sprain, I’ll just wrap it. Long story short, [I] woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and I fell face-first into the wall. And I was like ‘Oh I think something’s wrong,'” she recounted.

The ACL tear abruptly ended Deville’s reign as WWE Women’s Tag Team Champion, a title she had held for the first time in nearly a decade with the company. She expressed her frustration and disappointment over how the injury disrupted her plans. “I was so devastated. I had been with the company for nine years and of course, part of being in the WWE is to one day grab that brass ring and get gold around your waist. And that’s what I had been striving for of course. So I finally got that first championship and I was so happy. I was so elated, I was ready to make those titles mean more than ever before and then the injury came,” Deville said.

Sonya Deville returned during the May 20 episode of Monday Night RAW in a backstage segment with Shayna Baszler and Zoey Stark. Fans eagerly await to see what WWE has planned for Deville moving forward.