Will Ospreay admits that he is far from 100 percent heading into AEW Forbidden Door this weekend in London, England.
It was announced following All In: Texas last month that Ospreay would take a break from in-ring action due to injuries. At the time, he noted that he was angling for a return at Forbidden Door.
However, it has become clear in recent weeks that Ospreay remains banged up, as noted during a promo on Wednesday’s episode of Dynamite.
Ospreay went into further detail about his injuries in a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, mentioning that he is planning to undergo surgery following his appearance this weekend in London.
“I am compromised,” Ospreay told Sports Illustrated. “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.”
Ospreay hasn’t wrestled since mid-July, when he appeared at All In. He described how he had only learned since then that the severity of his injury was actually worse than initially expected.
“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,” he explained. “And then the MRI’s 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 it needs to be corrected.”
Ospreay is scheduled to appear in a five-on-five lights-out steel cage match at Forbidden Door, hoping to put away the Death Riders and their allies in the extreme match.
