Shotzi Reveals Reason For Recent Absence From WWE TV

While Shotzi was a featured performer on Friday Night SmackDown during the final months of 2021, outside of a Royal Rumble appearance, the former NXT Women's Tag Team Champion has only competed in one match in 2022, on the February 25 episode of the blue brand.

The reason for Shotzi's absence from TV has been revealed, though, and she told Mondragon Chiropractic that she had been dealing with lower back pain.

"Right now, my lower back. I actually got x-rays on it. It's nothing crazy, but they said that my pelvic bone is tilted forward. They've been giving me rehab exercises and stuff. I'm way better than a month ago, for sure," Shotzi said on February 12.

After being asked about the pain level, she said: "Ten. It was pretty bad. I had a match and then I woke up the next morning and it was really hard for me to get up. I slid off of the bed onto the floor and I couldn't even put pressure onto my knees or crawl. I've been off for a little bit."

In her return match on SmackDown, Shotzi lost in two minutes to Sasha Banks.

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