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NEWS - AEW's Injury Crisis Is REAL, Top Stars OUT!

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WhatCulture Wrestling

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Another Top AEW Babyface Hurt!

Will Ospreay Update!

Mercedes Moné Responds To WWE Counter-Programming!

AEW Wrestler "Knocked Batty"?!


ENJOY!


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0:00.0

Hello there my very good friends on this wrestling news video.

0:03.0

Another AW top star is injured, triggering something of an injury crisis.

0:08.0

Will Osprey, unfortunately, is included potentially in that crisis.

0:11.0

We'll talk about another AW star who was, I quote, knocked batty lately.

0:16.0

And Mercedes Manet talks about WWW's camera programming.

0:19.0

Hey, everybody's favourite topic. I'm Andy. I'm Michael. And this is the actual news. If you want to hear some weird gossip involving the performance center, you can check out this morning's video. But on this one, we're going to talk about injuries and then Mercedes being fun. Doing a cool interview. Yeah. Right, let's talk about AEW injuries first

0:38.8

because they're piling up at the very top of the card, unfortunately.

0:42.1

I mean, we're talking about the two top baby faces

0:43.8

apart from Hangman Page in the territory here.

0:46.5

Swerve Strickland is the latest one.

0:49.5

This is a report from Fifell Select that dropped yesterday

0:52.0

revealing that Swerve has been working with a pretty

0:54.5

serious injury since 2019. Six years this man has been working through an injury. So it's

1:00.9

a torn meniscus. He suffered it while training at the performance center. He has not had surgery.

1:06.2

At the time he rested for four weeks and then he was back on TV so he's been working through this

1:11.2

there's probably loads of wrestlers who are doing similar you just don't know about it

1:15.5

now on this week's episode of dynamite there was a note there was a clip thing where it was

1:21.6

like swerva had to be looked at by doctors because he's suffering from an injury

1:26.0

and Sean Rossap has learned that

1:28.1

that is based on reality and it could affect obviously his immediate future. He's facing

1:32.8

Kazuchko Okada for the unified title at Forbidden Door this weekend and hey look, spoiler

1:38.4

alert, I don't think the injured guy's going to win because sources have indicated that the the currently Jacksonville Jaguars

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