Will Ospreay Provides Details On Injury: ‘It Just Needs To Be Corrected’

Will Ospreay have provided a new update on his injury, noting that it won’t get worse but needs to be “corrected.” Ospreay announced on this week’s Dynamite that he needs to get surgery on his injury, which is specifically herniated discs. He gave some details on his status to Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown he can still perform at Forbidden Door before he has to get it fixed. You can see highlights below:

On his injury status: “I am compromised. 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 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.”

On performing at Forbidden Door: “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, if it was a huge percentage of a 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?”

On his plan to go ‘all out’ in the match: “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 turn 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.”