Chelsea Green Hires Lawyer, Files Legal Complaint Over SmackDown Count-Out Loss

Chelsea Green isn’t just mad—she’s lawyering up.

The current WWE Women’s United States Champion has taken her fight with WWE to another level after her controversial count-out loss to Zelina Vega on the April 11 episode of SmackDown. After teasing she’d “have a word” with management, Green confirmed on April 12 that she’s officially retained legal counsel—and she’s not backing down.

“I HAVE HIRED MY LEGAL TEAM 🫡🇺🇸 @RealNickAldis,” Green wrote in a quote tweet aimed directly at WWE, tagging @LucaCrusifino, the kayfabe attorney who’s been appearing on NXT programming. The tweet included a formal legal document—styled like a real legal appeal—addressed to WWE management.

The letter, signed by Luca Crusifino, Esq., argues that Green’s April 11 count-out loss was “procedurally questionable and competitively unjust.” The complaint claims that the referee’s ten-count was delivered with “undue haste, deviating from accepted WWE cadence norms,” violating WWE Officiating Bylaw Section 7, Subsection C, Provision 4A. That rule, as stated in the document, requires that “all in-ring counts must be delivered at a steady and impartial tempo reflective of standardized officiating pace guidelines.”

Crusifino’s legal team is now demanding a full review of the match footage and is calling for remedial action, including a “mandatory counting cadence retraining course” for the referee involved.

The letter doesn’t stop there. “Should such discrepancies in officiating continue to jeopardize the competitive integrity of Ms. Green’s championship tenure, we will have no choice but to explore further legal remedies—including formal grievance filings and procedural injunctions.”

Green first made noise after her match with Vega by posting, “Filing an IMMEDIATE injunction against @wwe & the 10 count infringement they placed on their United States Champion.” The quote, paired with a salute and U.S. flag emoji, had fans wondering if she was serious. Turns out, she absolutely was.

With WrestleMania fallout still fresh and tensions running high on SmackDown, Chelsea Green just made it very clear that she’s not playing games when it comes to her title reign—or her legal rights.