Xavier Woods returned to action at Saturday night’s WWE live event from Jackson, Mississippi.
The New Day member hasn’t wrestled in over two months. He’s been recovering from a leg injury (the plantaris muscle in his calf).
His last match took place on the January 7th edition of SmackDown, when New Day lost a street fight to The Usos. According to Woods, the injury occurred when he delivered a Tornado DDT to Jey Uso. Despite the injury, he was able to finish the match and actually took a Samoan Drop moments after hurting his leg.
Woods said he expected to miss 4-6 weeks of action, but was out for approximately 9 weeks.
At Saturday’s live event, Woods and Kofi Kingston competed in a tag team triple threat match for the SmackDown tag team titles. The Usos retained over New Day and the team of Sheamus & Ridge Holland.
WWE Jackson Results
Here are quick results from WWE Jackson (3/12/22):
- Viking Raiders def. Los Lotharios
- Shayna Baszler def. Aliyah
- Ricochet def. Sami Zayn to retain the Intercontinental championship
- Happy Corbin def. Shinsuke Nakamura
- The Usos def. New Day and Sheamus/Holland
- Sasha Banks & Naomi def. Charlotte Flair & Sonya Deville
- Roman Reigns def. Drew McIntyre to retain the Universal Championship