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After the shock and unplanned title change with Thea Hail and Blake Monroe recently, Fightful Select has originally reported that NXT referee Felix Fernandez got praise from those in WWE. However, there were others in NXT who reached out and said that there was heat on Felix for not checking on Blake Monroe while she was hurt.

There is more back and forth on this.

A number of sources have claimed that Blake Monroe said she was injured after the spot, and specifically was unhappy about how things unfolded. It was also claimed that people who directly work on Blake Monroe's creative weren't happy. A decision was quickly made to have Blake Monroe face Hail in a rematch, though Monroe had told some she was injured on the spot in the first Hail match. We aren't sure of the severity.

Matt Bloom, Shawn Michaels, and other refs were said to have told Fernandez he handled things the right way, and claim that there wasn't anything he didn't check on or didn't listen to.

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Raymond Slover

"You do not deserve the dignity of death. I sentence you to a lifetime of mediocrity. Your life will continue; your career will continue. And it'll be good, but never great. People will like you, but never love you. Because the star that you are will not compare to this monster that you've become. So you will dwindle; be replaced, and be forgotten. Then one day, many years from now, someone will ask: 'whatever happened to Mariah May?' She found out what happens when you try to kill God."

Zoe G

i appreciate this reporting so much

Rob Iapicca

If you get the wind knocked out of you, you literally can't communicate you're hurt, unless there's some hand queue... she also did end up kicking out, it was just late... that being said, just go with it now... WWE always books best with their backs against the wall

Lynchman

There will always be different points of view, but the idea that the ref should stop and check on her seems a bit much. If she suffered a serious injury, I get that line of thought. But she got the wind knocked out of her and he should simply slam on the breaks....sounds like sour grapes and backstage politics. Had he thrown up the legendary X and she was essentially fine, he likely would have gotten far more criticism.

Matt Hennessy

These things happen it’s part of the business I think the ref should call it like a shoot if they can’t kick out. I don’t think anyone is at fault sometimes things just go wrong. The two ones I always remember are with AJ & KO back in 2017 & then with Mox & Fenix in 2023

Rob Taylor

I'm certain she went straight back and kicked off and tried big leagueing Shawn and got cut down quick. What worked with Tony doesn't work with him... She could barely speak during that promo and I got the sense she was being made to do it, same this week. She had boo boo face for real.