AEW: Kota Ibushi Leg Injury Update, Nic Nemeth on If He Ever Was Close to Signing with AEW, Mark Briscoe on ‘Starting to Feel Better All The Time’ With AEW Singles Matches & How Many Tacks Were Used for Tables N’Tacks Match at All Out 2025

Oct 9, 2025

Kota Ibushi Leg Injury Update – Ibushi Confirmed To Have Suffered Broken Femur

As noted before, Kota Ibushi suffered a serious leg injury at Wednesday’s AEW Collision tapings at Daily’s Place in Jacksonville, Florida. Ibushi was believed to have suffered a potential broken femur injury.

The Wrestling Observer’s Bryan Alvarez reported that his sources confirmed that Ibushi had suffered a broken femur for the exact nature of his injury.

Ibushi is currently expected to be out of action for a lengthy time for AEW due to his injury and likely expected surgery.

Nic Nemeth on If He Ever Was Close to Signing with AEW

A recent episode of the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast featured TNA talent Nic Nemeth as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nemeth’s thoughts about if he was ever close to signing a potential contract with AEW and his reason for joining TNA instead after his WWE release.

“I wasn’t. I love so many people there. I’ve had a couple of conversations with Tony in the past, and I rooted for those guys every step of the way. AEW being a thing helped a bunch of people out, worst-case scenario, with negotiating and setting up their career for years down the line. I go if this ends in two or three years, it helped a bunch of people out and put some other people on TV, and they’re rocking and rolling and doing their thing. I watched every Wednesday, because I have to talk about it on Thursday. And it’s another one where I gotta watch wrestling. It’s like kind of a joke, but I’ve like come to learn all the people on the show and watching what they do. If I could do all the stuff that everyone does, their top circle, the whole show, really, it has so many different moving parts and pieces to it that I don’t know that I could, from my old style. I can adapt to anything, and I have been, and I even watched. The 2025 version of me still applies some different things that I wouldn’t have done a few years ago. But I don’t know if in a 35-45 minute match, if it wasn’t with me and Bryan Danielson or Jon Moxley, those guys where I know what they’ve done, and I can move around and do some things, but it’s like, if it’s remembering a sequence like I’m getting 30 guys in Contra every two minutes, I would be more vacant in the match, instead of like feeling the emotion and just remembering it. I go, I don’t know how they do it, but when it comes to those pay-per-views, they blow the roof off, and it’s incredible.
I just really thought with TNA, I go, I will never, ever be Kurt Angle. He’s just my hero, but I know that he did something special with going to TNA and I go, maybe, just maybe, this guy that a bunch of people, most people, seem to respect and have been waiting to see what I can do, maybe me showing up here and being involved could be another spark that does something, because they’re already getting talked about and making some moves, and they’ve been a insane brand for years. But I go, maybe, just maybe, me being there makes this a bigger and better place by 1%. Then falling in love with the locker room and everyone behind the scenes, I just go, this is the fit. I wasn’t going to go anywhere. I didn’t want to. A couple dates for somebody and a couple dates at AEW, 100% I would have done that. But I just go I need to travel the world and be able to sleep at night knowing that I can go, because I talked this sh*t for 15 years. No one’s better, no one can follow me. Sorry about the booking, but that’s not my call, and it’s like, now it’s like, back it up or don’t. And I had to, and I would have gone almost anywhere for a few dates just to check it out, but TNA was the fit. I would have watched their progression from the outside if I wasn’t there, but I’m rooting for all those guys and girls.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

Mark Briscoe Comments on Him ‘Starting to Feel Better All The Time’ With AEW Singles Matches & Reveals How Many Tacks Were Used for Tables N’Tacks Match at All Out 2025

A recent episode of the AEW Unrestricted podcast featured Mark Briscoe as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Briscoe’s thoughts about him starting to feel better all the time for his singles career in AEW.

“Man, I’m really starting to feel like I’m starting to get a better grasp of what it takes to be successful as a singles guy. It’s almost like the pacing — where in a tag match, I go in completely guns blazing at a reckless pace. In a tag match, you tag out and you get your breath and here comes your boy and he does the same thing.
In a singles match, if you try to do that, you’re going to wear yourself out real quick. And you don’t have the option of tagging out and getting your breath. So I think that was one of the aspects of it. But I’m starting to feel better all the time with my singles performances.”

Briscoe also gave his thoughts about his current goal for his AEW career.

“I’m looking for gold. I’m looking for singles gold. I’ve been smelling gold in them there hills here in AEW since I got here. Hey, six-man tag titles sounds real good too. Now that we’re conglomerating hard again, now that [Orange Cassidy] is back, I would love to get a shot at the Trios titles.”

Briscoe also gave his thoughts about how many tacks were used for his Tables N’Tacks match against MJF at this past September’s AEW All Out 2025 event.

“I want to say, the last thing I heard was 85,000. At least 85,000. It was just enough.”

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com, Fightful.com