Tag: AEW

Kenny Omega Reportedly Will Undergo Multiple Surgeries

On the most recent episode of AEW Dynamite, Kenny Omega revealed that he is taking some time away from the company. He also teased some tension with Adam Cole in the segment.

The former AEW World Champion has had a lot of issues lately. On the latest episode of the Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that Omega has suffered problems with his knee, shoulder, abdominal, and hernia, as well as others, and has worked through them all. Omega recently revealed that he has been suffering from vertigo since 2018, stating that the room would start spinning for him while he was wrestling.

Meltzer noted that Kenny Omega is most likely set for multiple surgeries. The dates of those surgeries are still to be determined. He is taking time away from the ring in order to get healthy, for the first time in a while. But Meltzer stated that there is a lot of rehabilitation involved if he does multiple surgeries at once.

When it comes to a return date, there is nothing set in stone, but February was mentioned. However, Meltzer noted that it could be premature as he hasn’t even had any surgeries yet. It was also mentioned that Omega’s status for the upcoming AAA show is unclear at this time.

Kenny Omega had a 346 day run as AEW World Champion, which is the longest in company history to this point. He dropped the title to Hangman Page at Full Gear on Saturday.

Source: Wrestling Inc.

New Japan’s Tomohiro Ishii Debuts On AEW Dynamite, Leads CHAOS To Victory

Veteran Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Ishii made his AEW debut during this week’s edition of AEW Dynamite, on which he teamed up with Orange Cassidy.

Veteran Japanese wrestler Tomohiro Ishii walked away from his AEW debut with a victory under his belt when he and Orange Cassidy defeated The Butcher and The Blade on the latest episode of AEW Dynamite on TNT.

It all went down in Norfolk, Virginia on the first episode of AEW Dynamite to air since Saturday’s Full Gear pay-per-view. Ishii and OC were accompanied to the ring by their CHAOS stablemates Rocky Romero, Chuck Taylor, Wheeler YUTA, and Kris Statlander, while The Butcher and The Blade had The Bunny, Matt Hardy, and a few other Hardy Family Office members in their corner … needless to say, chaos ensued.

Hardy and The Bunny did their best to sabotage Ishii’s AEW debut, but ultimately the experience and brute strength of New Japan’s NEVER Openweight Champion was too much for the HFO to overcome. The finish came when Orange Cassidy took out the HFO with a dive outside, allowing Ishii to land a massive lariat on The Blade followed by a brainbuster. Ishii then covered Blade for the 1-2-3, delivering a huge win to CHAOS and adding a W next to his name in the AEW record books.

In case you missed it, Ishii’s New Japan colleague Rocky Romero made his in-ring AEW debut against Bryan Danielson on last week’s Dynamite. Before the show kicked off, Romero approached The Best Friends (Orange Cassidy, Kris Statlander, Chuck Taylor, and Wheeler YUTA) with a tantalizing proposition. Romero informed the group that Kazuchika Okada had invited them to join his stable CHAOS. Taylor, who was a member of CHAOS from 20017-2019 accepted Romero and Okada’s offer on behalf of his teammates. The best friends then accompanied Romero to the ring for his match with Danielson on Dynamite as official CHAOS members.

Not much has come of the partnership between AEW and NJPW, but with several members of CHAOS infiltrating the AEW roster, it seems inevitable that CHAOS leader Okada will soon join them.

Source: TheSportster

AEW Wastes No Time In Turning Bryan Danielson Heel During Dynamite

Bryan Danielson got the AEW audience to turn on him in a matter of minutes and will play the heel role while he feuds with Adam Page.

Only a few days after “Hangman” Adam Page was crowned the new AEW World Champion and shortly after Bryan Danielson won the right to be the No.1 contender, Danielson came out on the post-PPV episode of Dynamite and played the heel role while challenging Page.

It was National Cowboy Sh-t Day in Virginia and Page opened the show with the Dark Order to celebrate his win. It didn’t take long for Danielson to interrupt. While The American Dragon congratulated the new champion, he also said he was a bit surprised and disappointed that Kenny Omega wasn’t standing across from him as the titleholder. Page responded that he’s right, Omega isn’t the champion, and that if he wasn’t mistaken, Page was able to beat Omega in under 30 minutes. This of course, was in reference to Danielson and Omega fighting to a time-limit draw a few weeks back.

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Danielson suggested Page be careful and said he wasn’t the kind of competitor to just talk about his wins, he actually wrestles every week. He mentioned that he wrestled one night after WrestleMania and that obviously earned him a chorus of boos from the crowd. Danielson said, “of course Virginia boos hard work.” Danielson said that Page had a reputation for having a long list of excuses and said he wanted to fight Page with no excuses. He had a match with Evil Uno after the commercial break and essentially destroyed him, playing the heel role throughout the match. He even posed while applying his submission sleeper.

After his win over Uno, Danielson addressed the crowd and said he was going to kick the heads in of every member of Dark Order and challenged Colt Cabana for next week in Cabana’s hometown of Chicago.

If there was any question about how AEW was going to sell Danielson and Page as a babyface versus babyface feud, those questions were answered on Wednesday. Danielson will play the heel role and he’s incredibly good at it. Within a matter of 25 minutes, he turned an entire audience against him and cemented himself as the brand’s biggest bad guy with Omega announcing he was taking some time off.

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Source: TheSportster

AEW Dynamite Preview 11/17/21

AEW Dynamite episode airs on TNT at the Chartway Arena in Norfolk, Virginia. Fallout from Full Gear.

* Bryan Danielson vs. Evil Uno
* Jay Lethal debuts vs. AEW TNT Champion Sammy Guevara with the title on the line
* Hikaru Shida vs. Nyla Rose in a quarterfinals match for the AEW TBS Title Tournament
* The Butcher and The Blade vs. Orange Cassidy and Tomohiro Ishii in his AEW debut
* The Acclaimed vs. Lio Rush and Dante Martin
* AEW World Champion Hangman Page to celebrate on “National Cowboy S*** Day”

AEW’s Kenny Omega Has Been Wrestling With Vertigo For Three Years

Former AEW World Champion Kenny Omega recently revealed that he regularly experiences bouts of vertigo during his matches and has done since 2018.

Kenny Omega has revealed that he has been experiencing bouts of vertigo during his matches since 2018.

“Yeah, it’s been an issue since 2018. I just get really bad vertigo. I get dizzy in the ring. I can’t — the room spins. It’s been a new skill I’ve had to inherit is wrestling in a spinning ring,” Omega said during a recent appearance on the YouTube channel of chiropractor Dr. Beau Hightower. “So to make sure I get that straightened out as much as I can, as often as I can is really paramount for my performances.”

Omega’s health woes don’t stop with vertigo, sadly. In the aforementioned video with Hightower, Omega revealed that he is also struggling with a shoulder injury.

“One thing that I can say is I have a lot of difficulty just doing a straight side raise because of my shoulder injury. I would have to really sort of deviate to do anything. So to be able to go perfectly sideways is great,” said the former IWGP Heavyweight champ.

Since 2018 Omega has had one of the most packed schedules of any professional wrestler outside of WWE. He’s participated in numerous incredible matches and is one of the most consistently phenomenal wrestlers in the business. On top of that, Omega also serves as one of AEW’s executive vice presidents. Needless to say, the fact that he was able to work around a shoulder injury and regular bouts of vertigo for three years is extremely impressive.

In case you missed it, Omega’s 346-day reign as AEW World Champion came to an end when he was defeated by his former tag team partner Hangman Page at Full Gear on Saturday, November 13. Omega won the gold from Jon Moxley at Winter Is Coming in December of 2020.

Source: TheSportster

AEW Stars Injured At Full Gear?

Eddie Kingston and Malakai Black didn’t appear at this morning’s Big Event convention in New York City, according to PWInsider.

It was announced to fans they weren’t there due to injuries sustained at last night’s AEW Full Gear.

On last night’s show, Malakai Black teamed up with Andrade El Idolo against Cody Rhodes and PAC. Not the most cohesive tag match, but a physical bout from all of those involved. The end of the match saw PAC get the pin on Andrade

For Kingston, he was in less of a match, but rather a “fistfight” as described by AEW Announcer Jim Ross. Kingston battled CM Punk in hotly contested match that found more and more fans booing CM Punk by the end of the bout.

Despite his effort, Kingston got tagged with the GTS for the pinfall loss. Post-match, Punk attempted to shake his hand, but Eddie Kingston bailed out of the ring.

In the post-PPV media scrum, Bryan Danielson — who earned a future AEW World Title shot — gave his thoughts on Kingston.

“Eddie is a very inspirational person and human being,” Danielson said. “But when I look at Eddie and CM Punk looks at Eddie, and you could see that tonight when you look at him he’s freaking awesome. What would happen if he put in that extra effort right? He works his ass off when he’s out there but what one of the things right before we had our first match, after [wrestling in] Miami he goes out till 3 in the morning. After the show I’m in my hotel room stretching, getting ready so that my body is physically prepared for the next week.”

Bryan also mentioned in his comments that Kingston’s shoulder was “really banged up.”

Northeast Wrestling just posted that they were contacted by Kingston earlier today. He couldn’t appear due to “having his shoulder checked out and having a series of medical tests this morning.”

AEW Full Gear Results 11/13/2021, Jay Lethal Is All Elite

THE BUY IN
Thunder Rosa and Hikaru Shida defeated Nyla Rose and Jamie Hayter

MJF defeated Darby Allin

AEW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Lucha Brothers (c) defeated FTR

WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR TOURNAMENT FINALS
Bryan Danielson defeated Miro to earn a future AEW World Championship match.

FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE
Jurassic Express and Christian Cage defeated Adam Cole and The Young Bucks

Cody Rhodes and PAC defeated Malakai Black and Andrade El Idolo

Post-match, Cash Wheeler and Tully Blanchard come out for some cheap shots on PAC and Cody. Commentary noting The Pinnacle sold the services of FTR to Black and Andrade for two weeks.

AEW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Britt Baker (c) defeated Tay Conti

CM Punk defeated Eddie Kingston

Post-match, Kingston doesn’t move for a bit. Punk finally stumbles his way up to his feet. Punk extends his hand, but Kingston bails out of the ring.

MINNEAPOLIS STREET FIGHT
Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana, and Ortiz) defeated Men of the Year, Junior Dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski, and Dan Lambert

Jay Lethal makes a surprise appearance and announces he’s now all elite! Lethal also heard there was an open challenge out there and wanted to answer it. Lethal challenges AEW TNT Champion Sammy Guevara to a match on Wednesday. Sammy makes his way out to the stage and accepts.

AEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Hangman Page defeated Kenny Omega (c) to win the AEW World Championship

Post-match, Page celebrates with the title in the ring. Dark Order claps for him on the stage. Page waves them to the ring. The group comes down and claps it up for him. Alex Reynolds offers him a beer, he tosses it aside and gives them a hug. 10 and Grayson lift him up on their shoulders.

AEW Full Gear 11/13/2021

DATE: November 13, 2021 8:00 pm
LOCATION: Target Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
AVAILABLE ON: Bleacher Report, the B/R App, and connected devices, Traditional PPV, FITE (Outside of US/Canada)

The cost to stream AEW Full Gear on Bleacher Report is $49.99. You can pre-order the event at this link. A Spanish-language broadcast is also available.

Bleacher Report connected devices include Roku, FireTV and Xbox. Fans watching on the B/R App will be able to comment on the matches in real-time with other app users. Bleacher Report will also cover and amplify Full Gear across its most engaged social channels.

AEW Full Gear will also stream on pay-per-view in the United States and Canada for $49.99. Cable TV providers include Xfinity, Spectrum, Contour, Fios, U-Verse and Optimum, among others in the United States, plus Rogers, Bell, Shaw, SaskTel and TELUS in Canada. Satellite providers include DISH and DIRECTV. International viewers will be able to stream the show via FITE. Also, you can click here for details on Full Gear airing in select movie theaters in the United States.

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AEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Kenny Omega (c) vs. Hangman Page

AEW WOMEN’S WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP
Britt Baker (c) vs. Tay Conti

AEW WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
Lucha Brothers (c) vs. FTR

WORLD TITLE ELIMINATOR TOURNAMENT FINALS
Bryan Danielson vs. Miro

MINNEAPOLIS STREET FIGHT
Inner Circle (Chris Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Jake Hager, Santana, and Ortiz) vs. American Top Team (Men of the Year, Junior Dos Santos, Andrei Arlovski, and Dan Lambert)

FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE
Jurassic Express and Christian Cage vs. Adam Cole and The Young Bucks

Eddie Kingston vs. CM Punk

Darby Allin vs. MJF

Cody Rhodes and PAC vs. Malakai Black and Andrade El Idolo

THE BUY IN
Nyla Rose and Jamie Hayter vs. Thunder Rosa and Hikaru Shida

Main Take Aways From Thursday’s Media Call With AEW CEO And President Tony Khan

Below are the main take aways from the media call on Thursday with AEW CEO and President Tony Khan.

Khan also promoted and hyped up this Saturday’s Full Gear PPV.

He likes the four-hour length of the pay-per-view main cards.He didn’t say whether he was interested in signing any Ring of Honor talent or buying the tape library but to stay tuned to his product because you never know.

He said there will likely be some visual tweaks when Dynamite moves to TBS in January.

He confirmed that they will hold a Battle of the Belts show and said they are going to kick off 2022 strong.

He credited Sonjay Dutt with helping put together the Lio Rush/Dante Martin vs. Matt Sydal/Lee Moriarty match Wednesday. He loves Rush and after he retired, he was in his ear to get him to return.

He said his relationship with New Japan is great and likely that more talent is to come as a result.

He reiterated the importance of the TBS title and to think of it as a sibling title to the TNT title.

Sources: WrestleView and F4WOnline

AEW Rampage Preview 11/12/21

Tonight’s AEW Rampage go-home episode for Full Gear will air live on TNT from the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

* Bobby Fish vs. Jungle Boy

* Lumberjack Match: Orange Cassidy vs. Matt Hardy

Immediately following Rampage, TNT will air the “Countdown to Full Gear” at 11 pm EST.