Kyle O’Reilly provides an injury update.
Last month, Tony Khan revealed that Kyle O’Reilly was out of action with an injury, adding to the long list of AEW talent on the shelf at this time. O’Reilly has not addressed the injury until now.
Speaking on This is VANCOLOUR, O’Reilly provided an update on his injury.
“This October, I’ll be wrestling for 17 years now. It’s a lot of bumps, a lot of wear and tear on your body. Fortunately, nothing serious has really happened to me. I’ve been hurt a lot, I’ve been injured, but I’ve always grinded through, made the date, showed up and performed as well as I can in the ring despite whatever I was nursing. Sometimes, the medical staff needs to save us from ourselves. As wrestlers, we’ll go until the wheels fall off. ‘My shoulder is hurt? Okay, I won’t do any moves where I land on my shoulder.’ We’re crazy like that. This is something I’ve been dealing with, it’s a nagging thing that I’ve been dealing with, specifically, pretty bad for the last five years. In the last few weeks of wrestling on AEW, I’ve been really banged up and didn’t know the extent of it until now. I still don’t know all the information, so I don’t want to disclose exactly what is happening with me. I need more information and I should know probably this week what the recovery time is going to be and what the recovery will entail. All I can do is, if there is time off, use it to remotivate myself, get in better shape, and come back stronger than ever before,”
Kyle O’Reilly to This Is VanColour
Time will tell how much longer O’Reilly will be on the shelf for, but given the length of his career, he may want to return as soon as possible. However, with this update, it appears there may be deeper health issues at work here.
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