Injuries are a sad and unfortunate inevitability of professional wrestling.

It doesn't matter what style you work, it doesn't matter where you work.

Eventually, if you do this thing for long enough, you're probably going to end up on the shelf at some point.

It doesn't need to be some big, impactful, sudden ACL tear.

It doesn't need to have come from some crazy bump or a spot gone wrong and suddenly

you're on the shelf for a year out of nowhere. Sometimes it can simply be the slow, almost

gentle accumulation of wear and tear over the years of bump after bump after bump,

shot after shot after shot, of working every single night

on the road of travelling 12 hours after you've fulfilled a date and not really giving the body

enough time to recover from the accumulated wear and tear.

Every wrestler gets injured, doesn't matter what company you work for or what style you are performing.

It's going to happen eventually. Now, I imagine the vast majority of pro wrestlers who step into

this game accept that, right? You come in knowing that this is an inherently dangerous sport.

Your body is probably going to scream at you one morning and say, hey, chief,

I need a break and force you into a spell of time off that must be extremely frustrating

because it's something out with your control that is preventing you from doing the thing that you

love. And currently in A.E.W, there's a bunch of injuries to very high profile names. Now,

we're going to go through them here, but if you were to just like make a list of these names, you might say that this constitutes

something of an injury crisis. At least three of these are some of the biggest names in the

entire company. The A.E.W AW cannot call on full time, at least

for now. However, I'm here to make the argument that, yeah, you could use the word crisis if

you want, I wouldn't argue with you, but from this actually stems a massive opportunity

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