Following AEW Forbidden Door this past weekend, Will Ospreay and Swerve Strickland are expected to be out of motion long-term with each performers set to undergo major surgery for injuries they have been coping with for several months. That said, it looks like one in every of the promotion’s top babyface stars is concerning the return within the near future.
In accordance with “Fightful Select,” two-time AEW International Champion Orange Cassidy has been officially cleared and can likely be returning to weekly television imminently. This past March, Cassidy sustained a torn labrum which has kept him sidelined for five months, resulting AEW to change their creative plans heading into the spring. Fightful claimed that Cassidy is slated to return “earlier than later” when asking about his injury status, while also stating that he isn’t expected to be out of motion until the remainder of the yr, in comparison with stars like Ospreay and Strickland. Furthermore, BodySlam.net also reported on Tuesday morning that Cassidy was cleared, with Fightful adding that he’s been backstage at several AEW events as of late and underwent shoulder surgery shortly after enduring the injury.
Ospreay is ready to undergo surgery for 2 herniated discs in his back, a procedure that has left the 32-year-old “terrified” as a result of the severity of the injury. At the tip of Forbidden Door, Ospreay was written off AEW television following the Lights Out Steel Cage major event, because the Death Riders brutally attacked him to shut the show. After failing to defeat Kazuchika Okada for the AEW Unified Title, Strickland’s knee was shattered by “The Rainmaker” as a way to put him out of motion for the foreseeable future. For the past six years, Strickland has been wrestling with a torn meniscus and together with his surgery set to happen this Wednesday, it was determined that he can be written off television at Forbidden Door.
We wish Ospreay and Strickland a full and complete recovery from their injuries.