Newly crowned AEW Women’s World Champion, Willow Nightingale surprised everyone when she announced that she needed to bow out of the Owen Hart Foundation Cup tournament and relinquish her TBS Championship as a result of an injury. Fortunately, she would only miss a number of weeks and returned in a gauntlet match to grow to be the Number One contender to face Thekla at Redemption.
After winning the Women’s title, she answered questions through the media scrum. She was asked about her injury and the timeline of her injury. Nightingale revealed she had an AC sprain and had a friend who had the identical injury and was out for a very long time following surgery. “It depends upon the grade or the severity of it. It’s something that you possibly can be out for a number of weeks otherwise you’re out almost an entire 12 months,” she explained. Nightingale said there is a difference between with the ability to clean her house and with the ability to wrestle. “We were really fortunate that it was not at the extent of my friend that needed surgery.” There was no way she could do the Owen Cup. As TBS champion, she desired to defend her title and since she couldn’t, she believed she should not be champion. Fortunately, she was capable of have a path to ALL IN and took it.
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