Shaq Says He’ll Be Wrestling Again This Summer

During an episode of Inside the NBA last night on TNT, Shaquille O’Neal was asked by fellow panelist Kenny Smith when he’d be wrestling again.

“Soon. This summer,” Shaq said.

Shaq wrestled on the March 3 AEW Dynamite, teaming with Jade Cargill to defeat Cody Rhodes and Red Velvet. After being put through a table by Cody, Shaq was loaded into an ambulance after the match, but when Tony Schiavone opened the ambulance door, Shaq was missing, leaving the door open for a return later.

In an interview with PWInsider last month, Tony Khan said that they did the ambulance angle because Shaq wants to come back.

He disappeared because he wants to come back. […] Before he went out, he’s like ‘This is great. I’d like to come back.’ And I was like ‘I would kill to have you back, that is amazing. What do you want to do?’ He’s like ‘Well, this ambulance. Just when you load it up, I’ll be gone. And then nobody knows where I went. I’ll come back,’ and I was like, ‘Sure, that’s great.’

So I was like, ‘That is going to be exactly what we’re going to do for you.’ And so that was it. I was in his trailer, he told me he’s fine going into the ambulance and he was going to do everything we talked about. He had worked so hard on all this, but then when it came time to show the ambulance when they go and look inside it, ‘I don’t want to be there, I want to be gone. I left the ambulance. Nobody knows where I’m at. I am going to leave, and someday I’ll come back.’ And that was a pun intended, that was a slam dunk idea that was a brilliant idea, and people are still talking about it, which proves it was a great idea, and it opens the door for him to come back.