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Not fearing the impact of “spoiling” its weekly SmackDown! telecast, WWE reported on an injury angle filmed during the Tuesday taping.<\/p>\n

The company announced Wednesday that Kofi Kingston will undergo surgery and miss 4-8 weeks of action. The procedure comes in response to a legitimate elbow injury, but WWE.com’s story also connected to a storyline at Tuesday’s show.<\/p>\n

That angle saw Ryback put Kofi Kingston through multiple tables during a vicious post-match attack. Sold as the cause of a neck injury, the angle was to provide storyline explanation for Kingston’s upcoming elbow surgery.<\/p>\n

Loosely tying the storyline into reality, “[WWE Doctor Michael Sampson] further diagnosed that Ryback\u2019s attack actually accelerating Kingston\u2019s already-existing elbow injury.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[365,209,168],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"\nWWE Star Leaves for Surgery; Details on SmackDown! Injury Angle<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"WWE star Kofi Kingston suffers an elbow injury. 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