AEW: Taz To Miss 8/20 AEW Dynamite & Collision Tapings and Forbidden Door 2025 Due to Knee Issue, AEW Reportedly Extends Danhausen’s Contract Despite His Objection, New Trademark Filing for Potential New Special

Aug 19, 2025

Taz To Miss 8/20 AEW Dynamite & Collision Tapings and Forbidden Door 2025 Due to Medical Issue

AEW commentator Taz announced earlier today on Twitter that he will be absent from commentary for this week’s AEW Dynamite and Collision shows in Glasgow, Scotland and also the AEW x NJPW Forbidden Door 2025 event on Sunday, August 24th in London, England due to a health-related issue.

Taz stated that the reason is due to a long flight over to the United Kingdom would not be good for his surgically replaced knee right now and also due to him undergoing medical testing this week.

I will be off this week, a combo of doctors appointments/imaging test on a couple of future surgeries, some R&R & most importantly my new knee does not cooperate to well w/very long flights at the moment.
Hope u all enjoy #AEWDynamite & #ForbiddenDoor !
— taz (@OfficialTAZ) August 19, 2025

AEW Reportedly Extends Danhausen’s Contract Despite His Objections

As noted before, Danhausen had been absent from AEW and Ring of Honor since February of 2023 with the exception of a surprise appearance he made at ROH’s Final Battle 2024 event this past December. Danhausen’s contract with AEW had been set to expire this past July baring injury time being added.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Danhausen’s contract was set to expire on July 1st but AEW officials had added injury time from his torn pec injury that will keep him in the company “well into” 2026.

It was reported that Danhausen had requested that AEW not pick up the final year of his contract and to just let him go due to him being ready to exist the company.

It was also reported that those spoken to stated that AEW still does not have any creative plans for Danhausen.

New Trademark Filing for Potential New Special

AEW filed a new trademark for “September to Remember” on August 18th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

This new trademark filing is inspired by the classic ECW “November to Remember” series of events and could be for a potential new AEW television special to take place during AEW’s upcoming residency at the 2300 Arena, former ECW Arena, from August 27 to September 11.