(Note: There was no rioting. Just a ton of boos)

Eva caught Carmella during a running boot spot with the apron pulled up over Carmella's head, Eva on the outside.

It wasn't immediately apparent that Carmella was hurt, as she tried to make her way to the middle of the ring. She sort of...I don't want to say collapsed, but she fell rather limply and Eva jumped on top of her for a pinfall attempt.

(NXT Referee)Drake Wuertz checked on Carmella, threw the X up, shook his head and called for the bell. Eva climbed off of her and immediately started celebrating, as heels are wont to do. It almost looked like a work had it not been for the expression on Drake's face, followed by ringside medical staff/trainers sliding in and checking on her. Drake looked up at the control area, shook his head again in a very pronounced fashion, and patted the back of his head a few times as part of what appeared to be a signal.

The atmosphere was weird while this was going on, especially once people started to notice that Carmella was visibly shaken, crying a little bit as she was attended to. The "please retire" chant happened during the beginning of the match, WAY before the injury occurred. It didn't happen again. There weren't any big chants to break out over the music as Eva made her eventual exit. This happened over the course of ~2-3 minutes.

There weren't any big chants to break out over the music as Eva made her eventual exit. This happened over the course of ~2-3 minutes. Carmella stayed down for a minute or two even after Eva's music cut off, and a stifled, halfhearted "Car-mel-la" chant broke out. She was helped up to big cheers and was noticeably woozy and ginger as she climbed between the ropes. Her music hit and she waved to the crowd as Drake helped/half-carried her to the back.

After she was gone, Greg Hamilton got in the ring and reminded us of the risk that all the performers take every time they step between the ropes, and then asked us to give Carmella another big hand.

The incident was a huge bummer, but it didn't play out exactly how I'd seen it reported, so I decided to make a fanpost while things were still fresh in the forefront of my memory. The match up to that point was...I mean, you know what you're getting at this point. Eva is what she is. I will say that on a night where everyone but Elias Sampson was over, almost nobody was happy to see her, save for the one sign pictured above and a clump of contrarian dudes that were trying to start edgy chants all night long(in this case a "Let's go Eva!" that was immediately met with boos.) After the crowd ran out of anti-Eva chants, someone started OLÉ-ing, and that was that. The chant hivemind went off the rails into whatever caught on and lost focus on the match entirely. It wasn't pretty. I get that there isn't really another lower-card babyface for Eva to face, but at the same time, Carmella vs. Eva XVII? Welp.

Here's the full card, for the curious: