Thanks Oli! Even while on holiday, you can still remind us of how great The Ridge is.
Somehow.
In case you’ve been living under a rock or sheltering yourself from the wrestling
world, you’ll know that there was an absolute ton of wrestling this past weekend, with AEW’s
third show, Fight For The Fallen, EVOLVE’s 10th anniversary show airing on the WWE Network,
more days of NJPW’s G1 Climax, and WWE’s Extreme Rules last night.
Unfortunately for a lot of wrestlers, with that much major wrestling, there comes a major
risk, and as such there were quite a few injuries picked up over the weekend.
To begin with, Dr. Britt Baker reportedly suffered a concussion at AEW’s Fight For
The Fallen on Saturday. Baker was in a tag match on the Buy In pre-show, teaming with
Riho in a losing effort against Shoko Nakajima and the debuting Bea Priestley.
It’s unclear when the injury took place, but Baker posted on Twitter that a co-worker
looked after her all night when taking her to the hospital following a concussion, and
she’d replace the pair of earrings that the co-worker had unfortunately lost. That’s
some wholesome content right there.
If Baker is indeed injured, then WrestleTalk would like to wish her a speedy recovery.
Another injury picked up at the same show, but on the main show this time, was for one
MJF. MJF teamed with Shawn Spears and Sammy Guevara to take on Jimmy Havoc, Joey Janela
and Darby Allin, but MJF’s trio were actually victorious. During the course of the match,
it seems MJF picked up an elbow injury.
MJF was scheduled to appear at last night’s Inspire Pro Wrestling event, but he was pulled
to prevent any further injury. Unfortunately for the promotion, MJF was also the Pure Prestige
Champion, which he’s now been forced to vacate. Inspire put out a series of tweets
explaining the situation.
At approximately 4:07 this morning, INSPIRE PRO was delivered the unfortunate news that
PURE PRESTIGE CHAMPION MAXWELL JACOB FRIEDMAN sustained a severe elbow injury at last night's
FIGHT FOR THE FALLEN event. With MJF scheduled to appear at next week's TRIPLEMANIA, the
decision was made to pull him from tonight's event to prevent any further injury. THEREFORE,
MJF will NOT be defending his PURE PRESTIGE CHAMPIONSHIP tonight against RICKY STARKS.
With MJF soon to become exclusive to AEW, the opportunity to reschedule the match is
not possible. Therefore, MJF and INSPIRE have come to a mutual agreement to VACATE the PURE
PRESTIGE TITLE.
From the wording of the tweets, it would seem that the elbow injury in question seems pretty
severe, however it’s been further clarified by Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful that the injury
is not too serious, and that him pulling out of the event was a precautionary measure to
not aggravate it further ahead of his AAA appearance where he’ll be tagging with Cody
Rhodes.
WrestleTalk would like to wish MJF a speedy recovery, as always.
The injury train doesn’t stop there though, that’s a weird thing to say, as one of NJPW’s
top stars also picked up an injury during the G1 Climax.
The G1 Climax continued this weekend, with Will Ospreay picking up his first victory
over SANADA. Ospreay had previously lost to Lance Archer, but it’s looking like he won’t
be able to continue his momentum as NJPW’s official Twitter accounts sent out tweets
stating that Ospreay suffered a neck injury.
Will Ospreay will miss tonight’s #g129 event due to injury. Ospreay is not suffering from
any skeletal or nervous issues. His status for July 18 will be determined after thorough
medical evaluation.
Ospreay then followed this up himself with a tweet saying:
Sorry I couldn’t make it out there guys. I’m in a huge amount of pain right now but
New Japan is giving me all the best treatment and taking great care of my health. I’ll
do my best to continue the G1.
While neck issues can spell big trouble for wrestlers, it’s good to know that he’s
not suffering from any skeletal or nervous problems, which would probably indicate the
injury is muscular in nature, which can be healed given enough rest.
WrestleTalk would like to wish Will Ospreay a speedy recovery, and the best of luck should
he return to the G1.
FINALLY we can stop talking about injuries, because we’ve got something much more juicy
on our hands. The omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent, CM Punk.
Last night saw THE GRAVEYARD DOGS. *sigh* team up to take on The Best in the World,
Shane McMahon and Drew McIntyre, with THE GRAVEYARD DOGS picking up the win.
Extreme Rules took place in Philadelphia, PA, and Philadelphia 76ers Communications
Vice President Dave Sholler tweeted about the lovely seats he got in the arena, including
a picture of Roman Reigns and The Undertaker standing tall over Shane McMahon lying flat
on his back.
CM Punk would respond in a now-deleted tweet, saying “Is that a fan that jumped in the
ring?”
Shane has of course been using CM Punk’s signature “Best in the World” moniker
for some time now, and it seems like he’s not quite over it. Don’t worry Punk, you’ll
just have to show them up by appearing at AEW’s All Out in Chicago.
CM Punk to AEW confirmed!
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