The 24-year-old broke her ankle during a match with Hikaru Shida on the July 20 AEW Collision in Arlington, Texas. The match was called off when Blue couldn’t continue after taking a high cross from Shida on the outside.
On Tuesday, Blue’s partner, Kyle Fletcher, posted a picture of Blue waiting outside a sign that says “Day Surgery” to his social media. The couple is requesting both prayers and cat toys.
— “Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (@kylefletcherpro) July 30, 2024
“Early word is Skye Blue might have broken her ankle on Collision,” our own Bryan Alvarez posted to his subscribers on X shortly after the injury occurred.
“Skye Blue suffered what was believed to have been a broken right ankle on the 7/20 Collision show. About 2:00 into her match with Hikaru Shida, Shida came off the middle ropes with a crossbody to the floor. In catching the move, it first looked like Blue’s knee went out. They were scheduled to go to the commercial break after the move and Shida was just playing to the crowd while Doc Sampson was checking on Blue. They called the match off at about 4:30 and Blue was taken to the back. Shida was supposed to win the match to set up her match with Britt Baker on Dynamite.”
Several members of the AEW roster are dealing with recently suffered injuries.
– Bryan Alvarez has confirmed that Skye Blue suffered a broken ankle while facing Hikaru Shida on AEW Collision this past Saturday. Just minutes into the match, Blue hurt her right ankle while catching Shida on a crossbody to the outside. The match was stopped, Blue received medical treatment, and she was helped to the back.
– Dalton Castle is set to miss the remainder of 2024 after being injured while facing Roderick Strong in a match for Collision that was taped on July 10. During the bout, Castle was knocked out with a flying knee. It caused the match to end earlier than expected when Castle was unable to kick out of Strong’s pin attempt.
Alvarez notes that Castle did not suffer a concussion. It’s a different injury, and Castle will need to undergo surgery
– Jay White’s injury that caused The Bang Bang Gang (White, Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn) to vacate the AEW Trios titles is a legitimate foot injury, but White is not expected to miss a significant amount of time.
– After the titles were vacated, The Patriarchy (Christian Cage, Killswitch & Nick Wayne) defeated Juice Robinson & The Gunns to become the new AEW Trios Champions. Killswitch (the former Luchasaurus) hurt his arm in that match, but it’s expected that he’ll work through it. The injury appears to be a partially torn biceps.
I am back from vacation with the latest episode of Wrestling Observer Live, discussing all the latest in wrestling.
On Friday’s WWE SmackDown, the storyline continued with The Bloodline 2.0 leading up to Solo Sikoa’s match with Undisputed Universal Champion Cody Rhodes at SummerSlam. I analyze the direction of the story and speculate when Roman Reigns will re-enter the program.
I also discuss this week’s AEW Dynamite featuring the near-one hour match between Will Ospreay and MJF. The discourse surrounding this match was polarizing with as much praise as it received, many couldn’t comprehend an hour-long TV match. However, I argue why a different format can be beneficial.
Additionally, I provide a breakdown of AEW Collision including Skye Blue’s injury and The Patriarchy becoming new Trios champs. I also discuss the new residency location in Arlington, Texas, and how it looked on television.
Plus, we talk TNA Slammiversary, Josh Barnett’s Bloodsport featuring more WWE talent, and all kinds of other stuff.
Skye Blue is recovering at home after suffering an injury on AEW Collision last night.
Blue’s match against Hikaru Shida was stopped early when she could no longer continue after taking a high cross from Shida on the outside. The referee checked on her and called for the doctor. When the show returned from commercial, Shida was declared the winner via referee’s stoppage.
“Early word is Skye Blue might have broken her ankle on Collision,” our own Bryan Alvarez would later post to his subscribers on X.
Blue’s partner, Kyle Fletcher, posted to social media on Sunday that Blue had returned home. She can be seen with her leg in a cast in the photo.
we got her home everyone, doctor Kyle on the clock
— “Protostar” Kyle Fletcher (@kylefletcherpro) July 21, 2024
Blue was coming off a win over Harley Cameron on the previous week’s Collision. She’d also unsuccessfully challenged Mercedes Mone for the TBS title in May when AEW ran a show at the KIA Forum in Los Angeles.
During a match against Hikaru Shida on Saturday, Shida went for a crossbody to the outside, landing on Blue. Upon impact, Blue was checked on by the referee and the match was stopped shortly after.
On X, Tony Khan said that Blue had suffered an ankle injury and was being tended to by AEW’s doctors.
“Our previous match was stopped + @shidahikaru was declared the winner, due to an ankle injury to @Skyebyee Skye Blue is being evaluated now by the Doctors; we’re all wishing her the very best,” he wrote.
An interview with Shida later on Collision had the former women’s champion challenge Britt Baker for this Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite, saying she had broken Baker’s nose before and would do it again.
Last week’s Collision saw Blue defeat Harley Cameron. Later, in a promo, she called out Shida and issued a challenge for this week’s show.
Skye Blue is “overwhelmed” by the support she’s received following a fan incident that took place at this week’s Ring of Honor television tapings.
At the taping, a fan was kicked out of the show for making what referee Aubrey Edwards called “disgusting, vile, hateful” comments toward Blue. Rachael Ellering, who was Blue’s opponent for the match, described the remarks as sexual harassment. Ellering said she’s never heard such vulgar things being said to a wrestler during a match. Both Edwards and Ellering said the fan’s comments were far more than just heckling.
Blue posted a tweet overnight thanking everyone for the love and support she’s received. She wants to make sure future generations of women’s wrestlers don’t have to deal with something like this.
I’m beyond overwhelmed with all the love and support. Thank you everyone you have no idea how much it’s appreciated 💙 Let’s make sure the future generations of women wrestlers don’t have to deal with this shit.
The ROH taping was held at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada in conjunction with Wednesday night’s AEW Dynamite. Matches from the show have yet to air on ROH TV.
Blue is aligned with Julia Hart in AEW, though Hart is facing some time out of action after undergoing shoulder surgery. Blue unsuccessfully challenged Willow Nightingale for the TBS Championship in a Manitoba Massacre match on Rampage last week.
Details have emerged regarding an incident at Wednesday’s ROH taping in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada where a fan was ejected for verbally harassing Skye Blue.
Skye Blue was wrestling Rachael Ellering at Wednesday’s ROH taping after the live airing of AEW Dynamite when she was subjected to “disgusting, vile, hateful, vulgar sexual harassment” from a fan near ringside according to reports.
Ellering and referee Aubrey Edwards posted about the incident on social media on Thursday, noting that they moved quickly to have the fan removed from the building.
The speed in which @RefAubrey and I got out of the ring last night post match to get this creep kicked out was remarkable. Olympic medalist speeds. I’ve NEVER in my career heard such vulgar things being said to talent during a match. Sexual harassment is not heckling.
I do want to say this: Thank you very much to the rowdy, respectful fans that come out to enjoy the show and support. We really appreciate you! This guy wasn’t a fan. He was a pervert who should be banned from shows for life.
If you yell disgusting, vile, hateful things at my coworkers, I will make sure your ass gets kicked out. There is no place for that in wrestling. Heckling is fine, but when you’ve made the performers (me included) feel uncomfortable in their place of work, you’ve gone too far.
Adding to this: No bad talk about Edmonton is needed. There are so many great fans there and we appreciate them! This situation isn’t a reflection of the entire fan base.
A women’s division contest has been added to Saturday’s AEW Collision lineup.
AEW announced Friday in a social media post that Illinois native Skye Blue will be in action on Saturday’s episode in Peoria, Illinois against “Legit” Leyla Hirsch.
Hirsch unsuccessfully challenged Blue’s House of Black stablemate Julia Hart for the TBS Championship on last week’s Rampage show.
Collision is part of a three-hour block of AEW programming on TNT this Saturday, with the two-hour show immediately followed by a live Rampage.
Saturday’s block will be the go-home show for Sunday’s Dynasty pay-per-view.
Here are the updated lineups for Saturday’s AEW programming:
Collision (Saturday, April 20 at 8 p.m. Eastern) —
Chris Jericho will return to action on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite against CMLL’s Atlantis Jr., plus Kris Statlander & Skye Blue will settle their differences on the show.
Jericho returns to the ring for the first time since the February 7 Dynamite on the Wednesday, February 28 episode in a match against Atlantis Jr. as announced by AEW’s Tony Khan on Tuesday. The legendary Atlantis will be in his son’s corner for the bout.
Khan pointed out that Jericho and Atlantis teamed together in CMLL more than 30 years ago:
TOMORROW
Huntsville, AL Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite TBS, 8pm ET/7pm CT
Atlantis Jr vs “Lionheart” Chris Jericho
Over 30 years after @Atlantis_CMLL’s tag team with Corazon de Leon, he’ll be in his son’s corner vs his former partner when Atlantis Jr fights @IAmJericho
TOMORROW
Also announced, Kris Statlander & Skye Blue will square off for the third time on Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite.
After Blue issued a challenge for a rubber match on last week’s Rampage and Statlander accepted the challenge on last week’s Collision, Tony Khan announced on social media on Tuesday that the third match between Statlander & Blue is official for this week’s Dynamite.
Statlander defeated Blue on the October 14, 2023 Collision, while Blue scored the victory in a rematch on the December 27, 2023 Dynamite.
The updated lineup for the Wednesday, February 28 Dynamite:
Sting makes his final Dynamite appearance before retirement
Hangman Page will announce his status for Revolution
Blackpool Combat Club (Bryan Danielson, Jon Moxley & Claudio Castagnoli) vs. Eddie Kingston & FTR
Skye Blue opened up about her heel turn during a recent interview.
Blue’s character took a darker turn after being hit with poison mist from Julia Hart on the September 23 edition of AEW Collision. In the following weeks, she would turn on her former allies Kris Statlander and Willow Nightingale.
Blue described how the storyline with House of Black was pitched to her during an appearance on Talk Is Jericho.
She said:
I did not expect it, like, at all. I remember me and Willow were talking about just wanting to tag and wanting to just be a woman’s tag team and whatever and try to make a tag division, because there’s not a lot of woman’s tags here yet. So, we were like ‘Oh, we can do that.’
They presented the idea, like ‘Hey, you’re going to get misted’ and I was like, ‘Does that mean I get to be spooky?’ And they were like, ‘Yeah, have you ever been a heel?’ I was like, ‘No.’ I always wanted to be heel on the indies, everybody was like, ‘No, you’re too much like a cute little babyface.’ Come on, guys, I can be mean.
Blue continued to say that there was a period where it wasn’t clear if her heel turn would happen. She was told “maybe, maybe not” about the angle but expressed to management that she wanted to challenge herself in the role.
She said:
I want to challenge myself, I want to learn how to be a heel, I want to learn. I was like, I want to learn every aspect of wrestling. I want to do as much of it as I can so I was super excited.
And I feel like me and Julia could be a really cool tag team. I feel like we kind of look like, not like sisters, but the blonde brunette duo and we’re both super young.
Blue made her AEW debut at Daily’s Place during the pandemic. She will return to the venue tonight for AEW: Homecoming. She is scheduled to team with Hart, Ruby Soho, and Saraya tonight on the show. They will wrestle the team of Thunder Rosa, Anna Jay, Kris Statlander, and Willow Nightingale.
Her full appearance on Talk is Jericho is available below.
After a dark transformation has taken a toll on a once great friendship, Kris Statlander will go 1-on-1 vs the new Skye Blue on @TBSNetwork TONIGHT pic.twitter.com/kt0rKA9syN
This will be the second time the two have faced each other in singles competition. Statlander successfully defended the TBS Championship against Blue on the October 14 edition of AEW Collision. The following month, Julie Hart won a triple threat against Blue and Statlander at AEW Full Gear to win the TBS title.
AEW will present Dynamite New Year’s Smash tonight at Addition Financial Arena in Orlando, Florida. WrestleTix has over 5000 tickets having been distributed to the show.
December 27 AEW Dynamite advertised lineup:
Continental Classic Gold League finals: Jon Moxley vs. Jay White vs. Swerve Strickland
Continental Classic Blue League finals: Bryan Danielson vs. Eddie Kingston
ROH Tag Team Champions MJF & Samoa Joe defend against The Devil’s Henchmen
Skye Blue vs. Kris Statlander
Adam Copeland & Christian Cage sit-down interview with Lexy Nair
Tony Khan has announced another match for tonight’s Dynamite.
Ruby Soho vs. Skye Blue vs. Anna Jay in a triple threat match is now advertised for the show.
“Tonight’s Thanksgiving 3 Way fight pits Chicago’s Skye Blue v Anna Jay v Ruby Soho (w/@Saraya) in the midst of Ruby’s saga with Anna’s partner @TheAngeloParker,” Khan wrote on X.
Angelo Parker’s recent admiration of Soho could be a factor in the match. He will be in the corner of Anna Jay along with Matt Menard on tonight’s show.
Khan also announced a trios match for tonight with Orange Cassidy, Hook, and Katsuyori Shibata facing former JAS members Jake Hager, Angelo Parker, & Matt Menard.
TONIGHT Thanksgiving Eve Wednesday Night #AEWDynamite TBS, 8pm ET/7pm CT
A triple threat Lucha del Dia de los Muertos match is the featured bout on tonight’s AEW Rampage as Penta El Zero Miedo will face AAA Mega Champion El Hijo del Vikingo and AAA Cruiserweight Champion Komander in a non-title match.
The number one contenders for the ROH Tag Team titles will be in action as Austin Gunn & Colten Gunn of Bullet Club Gold face former ROH Tag Team Champions Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal.
Skye Blue will take on Marina Shafir. Blue is coming off a loss in a four-way AEW Women’s World title number one contender’s match on last week’s Rampage while Shafir is looking for her first AEW singles win since March. Blue re-aligned with Willow Nightingale on Wednesday’s Dynamite after blowing blue mist in Julia Hart’s face.
Daniel Garcia will face Trent Beretta of Best Friends. This is Garcia’s first singles match in AEW since a June house show and first televised singles match since a May loss to Roderick Strong.
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Taped in Louisville, Kentucky.
Excalibur, Tony Schiavone and Paul Wight were on commentary.
Penta El Zero Miedo defeated. El Hijo Del Vikingo & Komander in a Lucha del Dia de los Muertos match (12:35)
Penta hit a Made in Japan on Kommader about 15 seconds into the match. Kommander hit a dive on Penta to the floor, and Vikingo followed him out with his own dive. On the floor, Vikingo hit a rana off the guardrail on Kommander, and Penta hit them both with a pair of sling blades. Vikingo hit a Phoenix Splash in the ring on Kommander for a near fall. This was all the first two minutes of the match (and I probably missed a half-dozen moves).
Penta took both his opponents out with a tope con hilo. In the back, AAA Latin American Champion QT Marshall and the rest of the QTV crew watched Penta dominate the match in the ring. Penta hit Kommader with an open hand chop, then worked over Vikingo in the corner.
After the split-screen break, Penta hit Vikingo with a gamingiri in the corner. Vikingo came back and tried to come off the top with a dropkick on Penta, but Kommander caught him with a sitout powerbomb. Komannder came off the top with a shooting star press, but Penta caught him with a lung blower. Vikingo then dove off the top with a Canadian destroyer on Penta.
On the ring apron, Kommander went to the top, but Vikingo shoved him too the floor. Vikingo went to the top. Penta caught him in an electric chair position, but Vikingo reversed that into a poisioned rana. Vikingo dove into a thrust kick from Penta, and Penta caught both his opponents at once with a package pildriver and a Gory Special. Again, all of this happened on the ring apron.
Back in the ring with Vikingo and Penta exchanging forearms. Penta hit a twisting powerbomb out of a fireman’s carry for a near fall. Vikingo caught the much larger Penta off a dive into a spinning uranage for two. Vikingo hit the 630 senton on Penta for a near fall, broken up by Kommander. Kommander hit Vikingo with a gut buster out of a torture rack. Kommander then came off the top with a Implosion Phoenix Splash for a near fall broken up by Penta. Penta then dropped Kommander with a Fear Factor onto Vikingo, and got the pinfall.
Go watch this.
– Alex Marvez interviewed Jeff Jarrett’s crew about the potential recruitment of Ortiz to the group, but Karen Jarrett doesn’t think they need anyone else. Jeff Jarrett is sure that Jay Lethal will be the next Ring of Honor Champion. After they left, Ortiz enters the scene and promised to take care of them next week.
The Gunns Club (w/ Jay White & Juice Robinson) defeated Christopher Daniels & Matt Sydal (4:28)
Austin Gunn pulled Cardblade from underneath the ring, who has an AEW Championship Belt taped on his hand. Daniels was double-teamed for most of the match, but avoided the 310 to Yuma and caught Austin with a german suplex. Sydal got the tag and hit a meteora for a near fall. Austin dumped Daniels to the floor, and the Gunns hit the 3:10 to Yuma on Sydal to get the pinfall. This was 2 minutes too long.
– RJ City announced the return of Danhausen, who announced his return will actually be next week.
– Alex Marvez interviewed Saraya and Ruby Soho. Saraya condesendingly called Soho “baby girl” and talked down to her. Jeff Parker showed up to comb Soho’s hair, and Matt Menard yelled at Parker for costing them the match on Wednesday.
Skye Blue defeated Marina Shafir (w/ Nyla Rose) (7:11)
The fight went to the floor early, and Shaifr missed a kick and hit the ring apron. Blue still wrestled more like a heel or a tweener, trying to stomp on Shafir’s bare feet and DDTing her on the ring apron.
Back in the ring, Shafir swept Bule’s leg and worked her over with kicks. Blue hit a shotgun dropkick, and followed up with a sliding enziguri. Shafir tried for the submission with a guillotine, but Blue countered by biting Shafir’s stomach. Blue rolled up Shafir for a near fall, then hit a pair of thrust kicks. Blue hit the Code Blue to get the pinfall. This was a pretty fun, competitive match after the break.
– Preview of the Darby Allin and Lance Archer match for Collision tomorrow night.
Daniel Garcia defeated Trent Beretta (13:20)
Beretta was out there alone because all his friends are either injured (Chuck), beat up (Orange) or banned from the building Hook). At the onset of the match, Excalibur ran down the card for Collision. With no new matches added it looks like someone forgot to book a main event for that show.
Garcia resisted the urge to dance early on, and paid for it with a clothesline. The fight went to the floor, and Beretta dropped Garcia with a brainbuster.
During the split-screen break, Beretta dominated the match. It looked like Garcia nearly lost by countout. It seems like Garcia is distracted by his lack of dance.
After the break, Beretta delivered a top rope superplex that left both guys in bad shape for a minute, but Beretta still got a near fall. Beretta hit a pair of short-arm lariats, but Garica countered a third with a back suplex. Garcia hit a knee strike in the corner and a brainbuster for a near fall. It seems like Garcia is resisting the urge to dance, but he should dance if he wants to.
Beretta came back with a half and half suplex and a death valley driver for a near fall. Betta hit a series of German suplexes, but Garcia dropped down and countered with a series of suplexes of his own. Garcia hit a boot, Beretta came back with a high knee, and both guys exchanged clotheslines and forearms. Garcia caught Beretta with another German suplex. Beretta came back with a running knee and a piledriver for a near fall.
Garcia countered a spinning DDT attempt, slapped Beretta and then he did the dance. Garcia stuffed Beretta with a piledriver, then slapped on the crossface and got Beretta to tap out.
After the match, Garcia said that was his first singles match in six months in AEW, then called out MJF and demanded a title shot. Why not? There’s only a dozen guys challenging MJF. Garcia still fancies himself a sports entertainer.
Final Thoughts:
Surprisingly solid show. The opener is must-watch, and the main event was very good.
A TBS Championship match has been added to the Saturday, October 14 AEW Collision lineup.
After a win over Emi Sakura on Friday’s Rampage, Skye Blue was awarded a TBS Championship shot against Kris Statlander set for this week’s Collision show.
A live appearance from “Rated R Superstar” Adam Copeland was also newly announced for Saturday’s episode.
In another new match added to Saturday’s card, Mogul Embassy’s Brian Cage will be in singles competition against Komander.
It was also revealed that new AEW World Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill will speak on this week’s episode.
Already announced for Saturday are a TNT Championship match with Christian Cage defending against number one contender Bryan Danielson, plus an ROH World Television Championship match with Samoa Joe defending against Willie Mack.
Collision is back in its regular 8 p.m. Eastern time slot after airing an hour earlier last week.
This week’s Collision card:
TNT Champion Christian Cage defends against Bryan Danielson
ROH Television Champion Samoa Joe defends against Willie Mack
TBS Champion Kris Statlander defends against Skye Blue
Brian Cage vs. Komander
Adam Copeland appears live
We’ll hear from AEW Tag Team Champions Ricky Starks & Big Bill
Dr. Britt Baker is set to speak on this Friday’s AEW Rampage.
Baker defeated The Bunny on Dynamite to earn the final spot in the AEW Women’s Championship four-way match at All In against AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida, Toni Storm and Saraya.
Shida and Storm will be on opposite sides of the ring on Friday as they compete against one another in a tag team match. Shida will team with Skye Blue while Storm will be joined by Outcasts’ teammate Ruby Soho.
The Ring of Honor Tag Team titles will be on the line as Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) defend against Ethan Page & Brother Zay. Aussie Open won the titles at ROH’s Death Before Dishonor in a four-way match.
Komander and Rey Fenix will square off for the first time ever on Friday’s show. Komander is coming off his first AEW win when he beat Kip Sabian on the July 26 edition of Rampage.
Sammy Guevara vs. Jon Cruz was also taped as part of the action Wednesday, but that match has not officially been announced as of this writing.
Here’s the updated lineup:
Toni Storm & Ruby Soho vs. AEW Women’s Champion Hikaru Shida & Skye Blue
Komander vs. Rey Fenix
Aussie Open (Kyle Fletcher & Mark Davis) vs. Ethan Page & Brother Zay
