AEW: Kyle O’Reilly Teases Potential Return From Injury at AEW Dynasty 2026, Darby Allin on “AEW Was A Thing That Was Created By Us, We Have To Be The Ones To Keep It Going”, Tony Khan on CM Punk’s AEW Departure in 2023 & Wanted To Come Back From Setback & Keep AEW Thriving

Kyle O’Reilly Teases Potential Return From Injury at AEW Dynasty 2026

As noted before, Kyle O’Reilly has been out of action for AEW since this past November’s Full Gear 2025 event due to a bulging disc in his neck and arm fracture injury.

This is VANCOLOUR held a recent interview with O’Reilly. One of the topics discussed included O’Reilly teasing him potentially making his return from injury at AEW’s Dynasty 2026 event on April 12th.

“I really wanna be ready in time for the Vancouver pay-per-view, which is Dynasty, coming up this weekend from Rogers Arena. So wink, wink, nudge, nudge. Maybe I’ll be back in time for that.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Darby Allin Comments on “AEW Was A Thing That Was Created By Us, We Have To Be The Ones To Keep It Going”

IHeartMedia held a recent interview with Darby Allin. One of the topics discussed included Allin’s thoughts about AEW’s momentum of success in recent months and how the wrestlers have to be the one to keep AEW going because they don’t have decades of existence to rely on.

“It’s just good to be a part of it, man. It’s a thing that was created by us and we have to be the ones to keep it going. We don’t have all these years and decades of stock where it’s in people’s [nostalgia]. This is so new still and it’s up to us to create this monster. The fact that we’re able to do something with Wembley, 81,000 plus people, this was all of us on the ground level building this thing. The fact that these pay-per-views are going hotter and hotter, I love it.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

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Tony Khan Comments on CM Punk’s AEW Departure in 2023 & Wanted To Come Back From Setback & Keep AEW Thriving

A recent episode of The Coach and Bro Show podcast featured AEW CEO Tony Khan as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Khan’s thoughts about the impact of CM Punk’s departure from AEW in 2023 and how he wanted to ensure the company could survive and thrive afterwards.

“I came out of that wanting for AEW to succeed and for AEW to continue, more than anything, and what we were able to do to rebound from that. Obviously, I wanted, in a perfect world, everybody to be able to get together and work together. I don’t think that was possible. But I also think that we’ve been able, in the past few years, to really keep AEW strong. To me, that was the most important thing.

I learned a number of things. I probably would do things differently, say things differently, but like you said, it wasn’t something I was expecting. You’re very experienced in wrestling, and you know that was a very much a welcome to wrestling in some aspects of it, because that was for me. I’d been in wrestling for almost four years at that point, but that was certainly a first for me, and as with all firsts, you’re gonna learn from them and hope not to ever have a repeat.”

Transcript h/t: TJRWrestling.com