Forbidden Door might be the last time we see Will Ospreay in an AEW ring for quite some time.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Will Ospreay recently sat down with Zack Heydorn of Sports Illustrated. When asked about the neck injuries that are currently plaguing him, Ospreay detailed the information that led to the decision to have surgery following Forbidden Door.
“I am compromised,” Will Ospreay said. “I’ve got a few herniated discs pushing against my spinal cord, which is affecting a couple of my nerves. But I can do stuff. And I can perform one last time before I need to go get it all corrected.
“I got told after All In that I was gonna need to rest and take some time off to see how this is gonna go. And then the MRIs came back, and I got told this is worse than what we thought it was gonna be, but that it’s manageable. It’s absolutely fine. The surgeon even told me that it’s not going to get any worse. It just needs to be corrected.
Will Ospreay believes in the medical team around him
“I have a huge medical team around me, and guys that work with AEW. They would not allow me to go into the ring unless there was a huge percentage of risk of me getting hurt. Like, honestly, do you think my wife would let me go in a ring if there’s a high chance of me dying?
“I know what lies ahead, and I know what’s going to be coming after this. I just don’t know what that looks like. People that have said after this, like, there’s things that you’re gonna have to say no to. And there’s things that you’re gonna have to tone down on with my style.
“And it’s not computing in my head, because I feel like I’m in good shape right now. If there’s even the smallest chance that I’m not going to be the exact same afterwards, I’m just going to go in there (at Forbidden Door) and just be Will Ospreay for one last night.”
Will Ospreay will compete in a Lights Out Steel Cage match this Sunday at Forbidden Door.
WrestleZone will have live coverage of AEW Forbidden Door later this weekend.
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