Summary

Kendal Grey said the reaction backstage after Sol Ruca's fall on the April 21 edition of WWE NXT was immediate shock.

Ruca took the major crash during her Last Woman Standing match with Zaria when she was shoved from a raised platform in the WWE Performance Center and sent through a table below. Grey said the locker room was left staring in silence as the spot unfolded, then felt a measure of relief when Ruca returned backstage smiling.

That moment has stayed part of the conversation around the match, especially after Ruca later revealed the head staples she needed after the fall.

Quote from Kendal Grey

While speaking on the Mark Hoke Show, Grey described how the NXT roster reacted:

"Back there, we were all watching, like, speechless. We were just mouth wide open speechless. We didn’t know how to react in that moment, she comes back, she has a towel on her head, and she’s like, 'heck yeah!' She’s smiling. She’s awesome… but definitely a scary moment for all of us. Just concern for her. Obviously, that could be really, really bad. It was bad, but it could always be worse. So knowing that she came back with a positive mind and smiling and stuff was a good reassuring moment, because all of us definitely were scared."

How Sol Ruca's fall landed in NXT

Grey's account underlines how dangerous the closing stretch with Zaria looked even to the wrestlers watching from the back. When a spot leaves the locker room frozen before the performer even makes it backstage, that usually tells fans everything they need to know about how hard it landed.

It also adds a little more context to Sol Ruca's standing in NXT. Ruca has become one of the brand's most talked-about risk takers, and a reaction like this suggests that match will stick with both the audience and the roster for a while.

Sources

Kendal Grey on the Mark Hoke Show