One of the key members of the current WWE Raw roster, Dakota Kai returned to the company in 2022 summer. After being let go from the WWE amid the COVID-19 budget cuts, she made her comeback in a surprising capacity at the 2022 SummerSlam premium live event.
Confronting the WWE Raw Women’s Champion, Bianca Belair, she had allies in the form of Bayley and IYO SKY who also returned to the WWE on that same night. Moving on, the DAMAGE CTRL faction was formed while Kai and SKY also won the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championships.
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It now appears that one of the two champions, Dakota Kai is dealing with an injury and she may not be able to wrestle for the foreseeable future. WWE Raw commentator Corey Graves noted that Kai suffered an injury during the Women’s Royal Rumble match, this past Saturday night. However, nothing, in particular, was reflected in his comments.
According to the reports of Bryan Alvarez of Wrestling Observer and Figure Four Weekly, the good thing is that Dakota Kai’s injury is believed to be minor and hence she should be back in action in short time. Besides, there’s no tentative plan is available to have her surrender the tag team titles along with SKY.
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WWE Raw talent Dakota Kai had a great Rumble night
The WWE Raw Superstar entered the Women’s Rumble match as the ninth entrant. Alongside her DAMAGE CTRL buddies, she had five eliminations and had also stayed in the rumble for 22 minutes and 20 seconds which was a pretty decent performance, she was eventually eliminated by Becky Lynch, who was thereafter eliminated by her current rival Bayley. There’s no confirmation on how Kai picked up the injury.
Over on the post-Royal Rumble edition of WWE Raw, Dakota Kai, and Bayley accompanied IYO SKY to the ring for her match against Candice LeRae. This was perhaps due to WWE wanting to keep her sidelined from action for that night.
Moving on, one-half of the WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions were involved in an angle with Becky Lynch on WWE Raw. The MAN injured Kai in a kayfabe manner to convince Bayley in going into a steel cage match for next Monday night. This match is due from the Raw is XXX episode on January 28.
