WWE: Jade Cargill Shows Off Head Injury Gash She Suffered at 9/26 WWE SmackDown Show, Shawn Michaels on Coaching NXT Stars Being “I Teach Best Through Connection”, Akira Tozawa on Wrestling Career Future

Sep 27, 2025

Jade Cargill Shows Off Head Injury Gash She Suffered at Friday’s WWE SmackDown Show

Friday’s WWE SmackDown show at the Kia Center in Orlando, Florida featured Tiffany Stratton defeating Jade Cargill and Nia Jax in a Triple Threat match to retain her WWE Women’s Championship. This match was notable for Cargill suffering a head injury following a spot where Jax sent Cargill face-first into the ring steps resulting in Cargill’s head getting busted open.

Cargill provided an update earlier today on Instagram posting a photo of her head wound and stated “Don’t question the love I have for this game.“

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Shawn Michaels Comments on Coaching NXT Stars Being “I Teach Best Through Connection”

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured WWE SVP of NXT and Talent Relations Shawn Michaels as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Michaels thoughts about his coaching of NXT talents and how he teaches the best through connection.

“So I’ll say this, I don’t know if I am a great teacher. That was probably the most challenging thing about it when I came in first as a coach. But I was very upfront with everybody. It’s one thing to teach the basics and then share your experiences. So I think what helped me, I don’t know, teach, was being able to connect with these people on such a personal level, a relationship level. I was kind of in their minds, freshly out, I was still relevant. I think that’s one of the things that makes the difference. There are times now, as the years go on, at least I joke about it, and I joke about it because it’s true, I’ve been there now for 10 years. The athletes now, they’re so used to seeing me, I no longer walk on water.
Now, I’m just the guy that kind of yells at the television, and every now and then gets in their face or tries to tell them this or that I’m the boss here and it’s not quite the same. The things that I say may not always carry the weight that it once did at the beginning from a coaching level, but it is something that most of them, once they go up to the main roster, and now they experience some of those things that I was talking about. That’s when it connects now. So now a lot of the teaching isn’t right there in the moment. It’s a couple of months or a year down the road, and then they walk back in the Performance Center and said, ABC, this happened, and that’s exactly what you talked about.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com