AEW: Scotty 2 Hotty Given Tryout & Chris Hero Hired as Full-Time Producer, Scorpio Sky Suffered Injury, Jim Ross

AEW Reportedly Gives Scotty 2 Hotty Producer Tryout & Chris Hero Hired as Full-time Producer

AEW reportedly recently invited Scotty 2 Hotty, real name Scott Garland, for a producer tryout in the company, according to PWInsider.

Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that his sources stated that AEW officials brought in Garland for a producer and coach tryout at Wednesday’s AEW Dynamite show in Albany, New York. Johnson reported that Garland’s tryout is currently expected to be at least several weeks in length.

In a separate report, Johnson reported that his sources stated that AEW officials recently hired Chris Hero to a full-time producer job in the company. Johnson reported that those spoken to stated gave high praise for the work Hero was doing as a producer during his tryout phase.

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Scorpio Sky Suffered Injury & Match Pulled from AEW Rampage Taping

During Wednesday’s AEW Rampage television taping in Albany, New York for this Friday’s show, AEW CEO Tony Khan announced that Scorpio Sky recently suffered an injury and was pulled from the show.

Khan also announced that Komander would be replacing Sky for his scheduled match against Kip Sabian for the show.

TK came out to announce Scorpio Sky is injured and will not compete. His replacement is Kommander! #AEWRampage pic.twitter.com/EaK1bpttqT

— Pat🌸 (@JapanesePurore1) July 27, 2023

The nature nor severity of Sky’s injury is currently not known.

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Jim Ross Health & AEW Return Status Update

As noted before, Jim Ross has been away from AEW’s commentary team since this past June due to a black eye injury following a fall incident and vocal cord-related issues.

In a recent episode of the Grillin JR podcast, co-host Jim Ross provided a new update on his current health status.

“It’s been good. The chiropractor visit has been very well-timed. I got another one later today. I’m sore as hell. I feel like I got beat up, with just pushing and prodding and twisting and so forth. But I’ve gotten some good, timely relief on the sciatica, which is a bitch. Those of you who have had to experience know exactly what I’m taking about. I went like three days, I couldn’t walk. I crawled or I limped, or I pulled myself here or there. I got me a walking stick, goddamn, I hate that. So anyhow, it’s better. My radiation wound seems to be healing, but it’s just so slow. They’re very concerned about infection, which I don’t want to get that infected because that’s not good business. So I’m on some heavy ass antibiotics. One more treatment today, then I’ll fly back to Jacksonville on Thursday as we’re talking here today, and move on. So it’s all good.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com