What’s going on with Piper Niven?
For the past few weeks, the mystery surrounding Piper Niven has clouded the Secret Hervice. The last time Niven wrestled was against Charlotte Flair on August 22. The 34-year-old actually got a big win over the former WWE Women’s Champion. There were no reports that Niven was injured and she was originally scheduled to challenge Flair and Alexa Bliss on the following Smackdown for the WWE Women’s Tag Team titles.
But the match was oddly scrapped without much reason. The Secret Hervice continued their feud with Flair & Fyre, but Niven has been notably absent. It’s finally been confirmed that Piper has been out with an injury.
Fightful Select confirmed that Piper Niven is dealing with an undisclosed injury. What’s even worse is that Bryan Alvarez of the Wrestling Observer stated that there was some concern that this could be a career ending injury. Again, the exact injury remains undisclosed.
On Saturday, Chelsea Green explained Niven’s absence as her sending the Smackdown star on top assignment. Then the former Women’s United States Champion stated that she was accepting resumes for Niven’s fill-in candidate.
Niven herself approved of the message.
Hopefully, the injury doesn’t end up being career threatening. It remains unknown how Niven got the injury in the first place. The natural assumption is within the Flair match since that was her final one, but without much context then it’s not fair to blame the third generation star since it’s also possible that this was a previous injury that only got worse.
Nevertheless, Piper has remained silent about the situation overall. It would be a shame if this turned out to be a career threatening injury as the Smackdown star is an underrated worker who should’ve won a main title by now. Here’s wishing the best to Piper Niven.
Meanwhile, it’s not clear if the Secret Hervice thing is going to be real or not. Chelsea and Alba just lost to Alexa and Charlotte, so there’s not much else for her to do at this point. It wouldn’t be surprising if they started a storyline on the search for the next Piper Niven as WWE is clearly high on Green as an act despite her no longer being a champion.