AEW: Will Ospreay Reportedly Set to Take Some Time Off Soon, Mina Shirakawa Suffered Broken Hand Injury at AEW All In Texas, Brian Cage Torn Quad Injury & Knee Replacement Surgery Update

Will Ospreay Reportedly Taking Some Time Off Soon

This past Saturday’s AEW All In Texas event in Arlington, Texas featured Will Ospreay getting involved in the main event Texas Death match between Hangman Adam Page and Jon Moxley for the AEW World Championship. Ospreay attempted to intervene to help put a stop to the Death Riders interference in the match only for him to get attacked and laid out resulting in him being stretchered off.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Ospreay is currently scheduled to take some time off soon. Those spoken to reportedly stated that the stretcher angle at All In Texas was AEW officials way of writing out Ospreay for his break.

It was reported that Ospreay has been working banged up and had been expected to take some time off. It was also reported that it is currently not known how long Ospreay will be gone but those spoken to stated that he will be out for over a month.

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Mina Shirakawa Suffered Broken Hand Injury at AEW All In Texas

Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Chicago, Illinois featured the announcement of Mina Shirakawa had suffered a broken hand injury at this past Saturday’s All In Texas event.

Tony Schiavone stated on commentary that Shirakawa had suffered the injury after she was hit by Athena’s O-Face finisher during the Women’s Casino Gauntlet match.

No other details were given regarding how long Shirakawa will be out of action.

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Brian Cage Torn Quad Injury & Knee Replacement Surgery Update

As noted before, Brian Cage has been out of action for AEW since this past March due to a torn quad injury and surgery. Cage had also underwent knee replacement surgery this past June.

A recent episode of The Magic Of Wrestling podcast featured Cage as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Cage’s thoughts about his original plans for working through his knee injury.

“My right knee has been bothering me forever. I mean, we’re probably talking 18 months. I’ve been post posting it because any athlete, not just wrestlers, never want to take time off obviously. I just kept pushing through and through. I would jump wrong or land weird or take a step weird or slip and catch myself and my knee would just blow up. It would be limited, just try to push through it and my workouts were sucking. From working out and traveling and wrestling, then I’m home and trying to be dad life and day-to-day stuff would be terrible. So, the goal was, alright, I’m gonna get through All In and then this week is when I was technically looking at getting this knee set for surgery to take care of that.

Unfortunately, I tore this knee at the end of March and I had to wait a couple of weeks to get surgery on it. While I was already out and it sucked, I was like, I really wanted the right knee down anyways. This knee was coming along really well, the left one. I knew I could come back pretty quick but I was like, I don’t want to come back and then still have the right knee be an issue and then try to find time for that. If I’m just out for several months and now I’ve got to try and find time to go get the right knee fixed. I go, you know what, it’s going to suck, but let’s just do it now. I went and had the right one done, which has not been fun at all. The left one’s kind of gone a little backwards in some regards because it went from doing about 20% to you know, 80% or so of the work when it wasn’t ready for it. So, it’s been a bit of a struggle but we’re getting through.”

Cage also gave his thoughts about a potential timetable for his in-ring return.

“I am not giving anyone any dates or times. I know when I want to be back, I know when I think I’ll be back, but I don’t want anybody to have any sort of expectations or more so any sort of anticipation for that day. I want it to be a complete surprise.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com