AEW’s Luchasaurus provides a recovery timeline for the shoulder injury he sustained in December 2025.
AEW star Luchasaurus is currently out of action due to a shoulder injury he sustained last year. The promotion wrote him off by having The Demand attack him on the New Year’s Smash episode of AEW Dynamite on December 31, 2025.
Now, speaking on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast, Luchasaurus explained how the injury happened. He revealed that he was excited after the New York Knicks won the 2025 NBA Cup on December 16, 2025. He noted that he drank and stayed up all night before the Holiday Bash episode of AEW Dynamite the following night. He competed in the Dynamite Diamond Ring battle royal at the event and sustained the injury after he caught Shelton Benjamin for a chokeslam.
“I was supposed to go maybe do a Santa Claus thing (at AEW Dynamite Holiday Bash), but you have to be ready to wrestle. When I got too excited because the Knicks won the (NBA) Cup, I was drinking on the plane and up all night. I didn’t sleep. They finally won something! I waited 40 years for this. We get there and Tony (Khan) is like, do you want to be in this battle royal? I’m not going to say no to the boss, who just flew me out here. ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’ It was a fun spot with Shelton Benjamin, he threw Ricochet to me and I caught him in a chokeslam. Somehow, my shoulder went ‘pop, pop,’” Luchasaurus began.
Luchasaurus hopes to return to AEW soon
Speaking further, Luchasaurus revealed that he had a partial rotator cuff tear during a match with Jack Perry in 2022. He noted that he tried to manage it for years with treatment, but eventually, both shoulders gave out.
The AEW star then revealed that he underwent his first surgery in February 2026 and plans to have another in three months. While the surgeon suggested a six-month recovery before the second surgery, he is trying to speed up the process so he can get back in the ring sooner.
“I had a partial tear when I wrestled [Jack] in 2022, that’s how dangerous he is [sarcasm], because when he works his friends, they tell you to hit the big guys as hard as you can,” he continued.
“I partially tore the rotator cuff and worked through it. We did a PRP injection and band-aided it for a while. Four years (later), they both went. It happened. I got the first one done in February. The surgeon wanted to wait six months, but we’re trying to do a faster timeline because we want to get back. I’m going to do the next one three months after, which is a little scary, but I want to get back as soon as I can. I wanted to do them both at the same time, but as soon as I got one done, I realized it would have been insane. It would have been a disaster,” the AEW star said. [H/T Fightful]
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