Overview
- During a Saturday Fox & Friends Weekend segment in Tampa promoting the Real American Freestyle event, RAF champion and Olympic medalist Kennedy Blades demonstrated a suplex on host Abby Hornacek.
- Hornacek got up right away and later said she felt fine, joking that her microphone pack was destroyed and telling viewers she felt like a million bucks.
- Blades, a Paris 2024 silver medalist and 2025 world medalist, said she used correct technique and turned at the end so Hornacek would not land on her neck.
- The clip posted by Hornacek with the caption “Got suplexed by an Olympian today” spread widely on social media, drawing praise for showmanship and sharp criticism over injury risk from commentators and viewers.
- RAF is a newer Olympic‑style wrestling promotion featured on Fox platforms, and the incident has kept attention on how far live news segments should go when blending reporting with sports promotion.