AEW: Ricky Steamboat Announced for Tonight’s Dynamite, Kris Statlander Injury Update, New Dark Tapings

AEW
Aug 17, 2022

Ricky Steamboat Appearance Announced for Tonight’s AEW Dynamite Show

AEW CEO Tony Khan recently announced that WWE Hall of Famer and wrestling legend Ricky “The Dragon” Steamboat will be making an appearance for the company at tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite in Charleston, West Virginia.

Khan announced that Steamboat will be the special guest timekeeper for the show.

Kris Statlander Injury Update

As noted before, Kris Statlander recently suffered a torn ACL injury and is currently expected to be out of action for a lengthy amount of time.

During a recent episode of the AEW Road To series, Statlander provided an update on the status of her injury and a potential timetable for her return from injury.

“Last week, we did a live rampage in Grand Rapids, Michigan, I believe, and we filmed some Dark matches, and I did a big boot, which I don’t really do often. But I decided to do it, and when I landed, my foot, my knee buckled on me. After getting an MRI, I have a completely torn ACL. My lateral meniscus is torn, and there is lateral impaction fractures in my tibial and femoral heads. So just tiny little cracks that are more of a bruise, but still, technically a broken leg.

So recovery time, it’s about six-to-eight months post-operation. Once we got the MRI, we were hoping it was just a meniscus tear. That would have either been a few weeks to three months, at most. But now that we know the ACL is completely torn, that’s the one you don’t want to get, children. So if you ever think about blowing out your knees, don’t tear your ACL, because it’s the long one. So it could be six-to-eight months. Hopefully, closer to six, considering I know what I have to do, I’ve done this before I came back. bigger, better, more galactic, stronger than ever. I’m going to just take this opportunity to do that one more time because I fall down two times and get up three. So, I’m just trying to stay positive, gotta make the jokes. It’s the only way you get through it… Whenever my return is, I’m really looking forward to being able to feel it in the crowd. So, thank you all for supporting me through this time.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

AEW Announces New Set of AEW Dark Tapings for This Weekend

AEW recently announced that they will be holding a new set of tapings for their AEW Dark series on Sunday, August 21st at the Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida.

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