WWE: Lyra Valkyria on Meaning of Her Bird-Style Entrance in WWE, Chelsea Green Suffered Busted Nose Injury at 5/24 WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Show, More News

May 25, 2025

Lyra Valkyria Comments on Meaning of Her Bird-Style Entrance in WWE

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured current WWE Women’s Intercontinental Champion Lyra Valkyria as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Valkyria’s thoughts about the meaning of her bird-style entrance gear and routine for her matches.

So on the Independents I wrestled as Valkyrie. That’s not Marvel character-based, not bird-based. It’s actually from my favorite book, which is written by an Irish author. I discovered it when I was 12 years old. The main character was 12, living in Dublin, starts this whole new secret life, she has to take on a name to start this new life, and she calls herself Valkyrie. So I started that, and until I went to WWE, I never used the kind of imagery that’s associated with the Valkyrie at all. So then I was like okay, well I should probably use that. So I got the kind of Valkyrie-looking gear for NXT UK, and then when I was moving across, I had to change my name, and I actually contacted the author of that book. So his name’s Derek Landy, and he’s Irish, and he suggested this character called the Morrigan. I was actually a little bit familiar with it. It’s like the Irish Valkyrie from Irish mythology. Finn Balor and his demon character also drew from Irish mythology and stuff. The Morrigan basically transforms into a raven or crow and hovers over the battlefield and decides who’s going to win a battle. So I was like, that’s really cool. I went down that rabbit hole, and it’s just a very cool female warrior character who transforms into a raven. I just thought that was very cool. It was related to the Valkyrie, so it’s still tied to my book and my favorite stuff, and I love mythologies. So yeah, that’s where it all comes from.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Chelsea Green Suffered Busted Nose Injury at Saturday’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event Show

Saturday’s WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event show at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida featured Zelina Vega defeating Chelsea Green to retain the WWE Women’s United States Championship.

This match was notable for Vega botching a 619 spot to Green on the ropes resulting in Vega accidentally kicking Green hard in the face and causing her to suffer a bloody nose injury.

The worst 619 ever #SNME pic.twitter.com/pf4EwFzO8S
— Ace Humphreys 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🦢 (@Ace109610) May 25, 2025

Following the show, Green confirmed that she had suffered a legit busted nose injury on Twitter.

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— CHELSEA GREEN (@ImChelseaGreen) May 25, 2025

WWE News & Notes

WWE reportedly has sold and distributed around 7,190 tickets for tonight’s Battleground 2025 event at the Yuengling Center in Tampa, Florida as of this past Thursday, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

As noted before, this past Friday’s WWE SmackDown show at the Yuengling Center in Tampa featured Candice LeRae making her surprise return and reunited with DIY. Fightful Select’s Sean Ross Sapp reported in a recent Q&A article that his sources stated that WWE officials plans to reunite LeRae had been in the works for some time prior to her return. Sapp reported that when he had asked about LeRae’s abscense status and potential return plans, one source spoken to had stated “something is coming for her.”

WWE recently released two new videos to their WCW Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a tag team match of Sting & Vampiro vs. Team Package (Ric Flair & Lex Luger) from the March 27, 2000 episode of WCW Nitro. The second new video was the full January 25, 1986 episode of NWA World Championship Wrestling.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a “Forgotten giants of the ring: From the WWE Vault.” The second new video was the full “Undertaker collides with Great Khali and Big Show” segment from the July 15, 2006 episode of WWE Saturday Night’s Main Event.

WWE also recently released two new videos to their NXT Vault channel. The first new video was the full July 1, 2015 episode of WWE NXT. The second new video was a NXT Women’s North American Championship Ladder match of Kelani Jordan vs. Sol Ruca vs. Lash Legend vs. Fallon Henley vs. Jaida Parker vs. Michin from NXT Battleground 2024.

In a recent interview with WFLA News Channel 8, current NXT Champion Oba Femi gave his thoughts about his upcoming match against Myles Borne for his title at WWE’s Battleground 2025 event. Femi stated “I mean, I’m looking forward tobeating up Stephanie’s boyfriend for a little bit. But I have a one-on-one match with Myles Borne. He’s worked his way up the ranks and, yeah. He’s won a couple matches to earn an opportunity for the NXT Championship, which I respect. But at the end of the day, this is not a Disney movie. You don’t get the happy ending. You don’t get to run off into the sunset with my belt.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

As noted before, next year’s WWE WrestleMania 42 event will no longer be taking place in New Orleans, Louisiana and is currently expected to now be taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada for the second year in a row for a WrestleMania event. Former WWE personality Jonathan Coachman recent responded on Twitter criticizing WWE and TKO’s decision to pull WrestleMania 42 out of New Orleans for purely greedy monetary reasons. Coachman stated “TKO does it again. Looking to collect every last dime they can get their hands now they will even back out of an announcement of their biggest event due to a bigger check being put on the table. Can you imagine the NFL announcing the Super Bowl and saying sorry San Diego we will give you the pro bowl and a Super Bowl to be named later? One head scratching move after another that comes back to $$$$ being at the heart of every single decision.“

In a recent interview with The Power Talk podcast, WWE Hall of Famer Tatanka stated that WWE has already talked to him regarding his sons potential future pro wrestling careers. Tatanka stated “My son is a big, big elite wrestler. He’s only in the ninth grade. He’s a two-time national champion, meaning he’s the best, one of the best in the entire United States. So big things are happening there. I have another son. So I have two sons, both young, that can be a Native American tag team at WWE. WWE has already talked to me about them. They’re very aware about them. They’re keeping their radar on them.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)

In a recent interview with Good Morning Football, The Miz gave his thoughts about Seth Rollins being the greatest in-ring technician he has ever wrestled during his wrestling career. The Miz stated “Seth is the greatest in-ring technician I have ever wrestled in my entire career. It’s not even close. He is unbelievably talented physically, but people don’t understand the mental capacity it takes to be a top-caliber main event superstar. A lot of people call John Cena the greatest of all time, I think, when Seth Rollins is done in WWE and pro wrestling, we’ll be talking about his name as the greatest of all time because mentally, physically, he has all the gifts to become that person. People call Shawn Michaels ‘Mr. WrestleMania,’ if you watched the main event this year on Saturday in Vegas, you would’ve saw Mr. Main Event in that ring in Seth Freakin’ Rollins.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)