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AEW injury updates: Will Ospreay, Nick Wayne & Konosuke Takeshita

Posted on by Josh Nason

There are a few updates after Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite and the subsequent Wrestling Observer Radio when it comes to the injury and health status of several stars.

Will Ospreay

During his show-opening promo hyping up Sunday’s unsanctioned cage match, Will Ospreay talked about how he wasn’t cleared to wrestle, hence why the match was unsanctioned. He then mentioned how if there’s a chance he can’t be the same Will Ospreay after Sunday, he’s leaving it all out there and also said “before doctors take a scalpel to me and my neck…”

On WOR, Dave Meltzer and Bryan Alvarez couldn’t confirm any details about any potential surgery and didn’t have any specifics, but Meltzer compared the injury to one that Kurt Angle had during his WWE run. Both men were unclear on how Ospreay got cleared for Sunday.

In July, Ospreay revealed he has two herniated discs and was unsure if he would appear at Forbidden Door. Meltzer also noted that during a brawl on Dynamite, Ospreay didn’t appear to get too heavily involved.

Nick Wayne

Alvarez confirmed that ROH TV Champion Nick Wayne does indeed have a legitimate broken foot as he claimed on Wednesday’s Dynamite. It’s unknown how he suffered it, the severity, or the timetable for his return. Meltzer speculated that without surgery, Wayne could be ok within ten weeks.

Wayne will be replaced by Luchasaurus/Killswitch, joining Kip Sabian against Adam Copeland and Christian Cage Sunday.

Konosuke Takeshita

Alvarez followed up from Monday’s WOR with some news on Konosuke Takeshita (seen above) who appeared to get temporarily knocked out during his G1 semifinal match with Zack Sabre Jr. He said he heard from some people that Takeshita got “knocked batty” and “didn’t remember the match, didn’t remember the promo” afterward. He was able to finish the match, but didn’t remember anything.

“They said he was ok” and he then wrestled the next night in the finals and then flew to Glasgow, Scotland, for a match with Tomohiro Ishii taped for Saturday’s Collision. As of this writing, he has not been announced for a match at Forbidden Door.

Adam Cole suffered concussion in AEW Collision match

Posted on by Josh Nason

The injury Adam Cole suffered in his AEW Collision match this past Thursday that knocked him out of Saturday’s All In has been confirmed to be a concussion.

Fightful first reported the news with our Bryan Alvarez confirming.

Alvarez had previously reported that Cole suffered the previously undisclosed injury in the aforementioned trios bout on a Kyle Fletcher lariat. Cole was set to defend the TNT title against Fletcher Saturday, but Tony Khan announced on Saturday that he was not medically cleared to compete.

An emotional Cole, who was out for nearly nine months from June 2022 through March 2023 due to a concussion suffered at Forbidden Door, addressed the live crowd Saturday and said he wasn’t in the headspace to think about retirement but wanted to thank the fans in case this was goodbye.

In the post-event press conference, Khan said Cole vs. Fletcher was still planned as of Friday night, but the two talked late Friday night and then again Saturday morning as Cole wasn’t feeling well. Khan then made the call to pull him.

The severity of the concussion is unknown and there’s no timetable for his return.

Injury update on Darby Allin following AEW Anarchy in the Arena match

Posted on by Josh Nason

An MRI showed that Darby Allin did not suffer a broken nose during Sunday’s Anarchy in the Arena match at AEW Double or Nothing as some had feared.

Our Bryan Alvarez revealed the news during last night’s Wrestling Observer Radio, saying that while Allin’s nose did get “messed up” during the match, the MRI alleviated concern about a possible break. Alvarez said Allin got a “clean bill of health.”

Allin shared a picture of his face the next day on social media, seen above. He wore a protective mask adorned with tacks during the match as he was recently struck in the face by a bus.

Allin, FTR and Bryan Danielson fell in defeat to The Elite (Jack Perry, Young Bucks & Kazuchika Okada) in the night’s main event. The violent affair featured a flamethrower, an exploding chair, tables, sneakers with tacks in the bottom, and Allin hanging feet-first upside down for several minutes from a winch among the craziness.

Alvarez opined that Allin must have been in excruciating pain when he was hanging upside down with all the blood rushing to his head. He also noted that Allin doesn’t appear to be all the way recovered from a broken foot as he said Allin was sprinting down to the ring for Sunday’s match and then slowed down as if he realized he needed to.

The night also saw Adam Copeland sustain a broken tibia in his barbed wire steel cage match with Malakai Black when he landed nearly feet-first after diving off the top of the cage onto a prone Black laid out on a table.