WWE fans are concerned that a botched move my derail Shinsuke Nakamura’s push.

WWE booked a #1 contender match between John Cena and Nakamura in the main event of this week’s episode of SmackDown Live in Cleveland, OH at the Quicken Loans Arena on the USA Network.

Nakamura ended up winning the match and will now challenge Jinder Mahal for the WWE Championship at the upcoming SummerSlam PPV (pay-per-view) event on August 20th at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

While it was a heck of a match, the finish of the match was scary, to say the least. Nakamura hit a Back Suplex on Cena in which the former WWE Champion seemed to land pretty harshly on his neck. Thankfully Cena was able to get up after that and finish the match. After the match, Nakamura apologized to Cena for the nasty bump.

Due to the bad looking bump, there is speculation that WWE may punish the fan favorite for it. However, it doesn’t appear that will be the case as a former WWE Superstar recently spoke about it.

During the most recent edition of Busted Open Radio with Dave LaGreca, Bubba Ray Dudley spoke on the bad bump that Cena took during the match. Here is what he had to say (h/t EWrestlingnews.com):

“I don’t think that anyone needs to talk to Nakamura because if you noticed right after the match, as Nakamura is walking over to John Cena, he says: ‘I’m sorry, ’ and John looks at him and says ‘there’s nothing to be sorry about.' If there’s one thing we all understand as wrestlers, it’s the risks we take in the ring, and we know damn well that anything can happen at any given time.”

We try to take the most calculated of risks. John doesn’t want Nakamura to feel bad about himself. John knows the push that Nakamura’s about to get. John doesn’t want Nakamura to doubt himself because John knows where Nakamura’s about to go. So, I think that moment in time is all the talk that Nakamura really needed.”

“Again, I guarantee you when they got to the back, John brushed it off, no big deal, all good and I don’t think it will be an issue moving forward.”

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